Reply #5: Define 'legal'.

[Warren Stupidity]

If they followed Iraqi law, it was legal. My guess is that they in fact followed Iraqi law. Totalitarian regimes frequently are sticklers for 'following the law'. Heck, the Nazis followed the law. In general they had laws for everything they did.

What do you think we would do if one of our towns or cities rose up in actual armed rebellion?

None of this justifies the actual behavior which, while it may very well have been legal under Iraqi law constituted violations of perhaps superceding international treatines prohibiting various crimes against humanity.

There are problems however with the legal process under which the former Baath regime is being tried. What laws are they using? This trial should be under the authority of the International court at The Hague. Instead it is under the authority of a dubiously constituted ill-defined Iraq court under the protection of the occupation forces.