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Originally Posted by gldstwmn
I wasn't lecturing you. I was trying to tell you to keep an open mind.
Getting a bit defensive are we? Nuremberg was a series of military tribunal trials. Not sure what your point is there.
As far as Kissinger goes, you reap what you sow with that piece of ****. I'm not talking about whatever covet ops he was mixed up in. And I'm sure there were plenty. Show me any one document that says the United States government condones the assasination of any foreign head of state. I submit you cannot.
Also I'd like to get furhter into why the United States did not march into Baghdad in '91. But I'm a bit pressed for time.
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My point about Nuremberg was that we did kill a series of leaders from other countries when we had allies with us. Technically, we really had no right to do that under your statement that the US doesn't execute leaders. My point is that the reason why we don't execute foreign leaders right now is by executive order, which I believe was signed by Ford. Any president can void that order and resume killing enemy leaders. I'd be all for it, anyway.
Of course the US isn't officially going to execute or assassinate anyone. We usually subcontract those things out, like with the Saddam execution. We don't admit it, but we do kill enemy leaders.