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Blogs Liberty and Power WHY PRE-EMPTIVE INVASIONS ENCOURAGE SOLDIERS TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES

Nov 22, 2004

WHY PRE-EMPTIVE INVASIONS ENCOURAGE SOLDIERS TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES

by Liberty and Power

Trevor Royle, the diplomatic editor of the Sunday Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), discusses the implications of shooting dead a wounded Iraqi in cold blood here.