Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.