Iraq occupation violates international law Letters

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http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070610/OPINION/706100350/1050

<snip>It seems that both of them know that the United States is subject to international law. I am speaking of the Geneva Conventions, the United Nations charter and the Nuremberg rules.

Thomas Jefferson said, "Treaties are the supreme law of the land." Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney seem to have no sense of international law. The United States invaded a sovereign country that had done us no harm, nor was it a threat when we invaded Iraq.

The war on Iraq was over in May 2003. What we have now is a failed occupation. Our poor troops are caught in the middle of an insurgency and civil strife with no way out until the "Decider" decides to do the right thing. Our troops are targets today, and they are being killed at a faster rate now than ever before.

We must get the U.S. troops out of Iraq. The people responsible for this illegal war and occupation must be tried for their crimes against humanity. The crimes are many on the part of the United States.

-- Judith M. Kemp, Salem

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