GTCharlie:

Perhaps what I am getting at is that war crimes have become mired in moral and legal relativism. Milosevic was a war criminal of the worst kind and what he did is heinous and inexcusable.

The question is, if waterboarding was a war crime during WW II, did it stop being a war crime during the War on Terror? Japanese soldiers were sent to prison for waterboarding American POWs. Somehow in all the legal wrangling of the Bush administration the Patriot Act made it acceptable.

At the same time, we have done nothing to stop the Russians or the Chinese from oppressing their Moslem minorities. We have turned a blind eye to it because atrocities committed during the war in Iraq were swept under the carpet.

The Abu Graib scandal is merely the tip of the iceberg and most of the photographs were never seen by the public because of censorship. Iraq is no better than Vietnam was. I ask, does anyone know how many people have been killed in Iraq? Does anyone care? How many people must be killed before a war becomes a crime?

We have seen war planes bomb Iraq and sat there as if it were mere entertainment. Those nice fireworks on CNN do not show human death in real terms. The number of dead in Iraq is certainly a lot more than there were during the Balkan wars. The Coalition of the Willing has dispatched a lot more people to their death than Milosevic ever did. So, are we really better than he was?