Punishing war criminals

[Thanas]

^"Quod licet iovis, non licet bovis" seems to be the principle at work in that instance.

[Edi]

As I'm sure you're well aware, the Allies prosecuted the leaders of every nation that fought on the side of the germans. So every leader of every original member of the "coalition of the willing" should be tried for crimes against the peace, and they all bear at least some of the responsibility for the 1,000,000 dead civilians as a result of the war.

U.S. was no party to those negotiations and never declared war against Finland, so to hold the Soviet kangaroo court against us as hypocrisy is misleading. In general though, the Nuremberg precedent clearly condemns Bush and his advisers and subordinates, and probably the Government of PM Blair as well.

If you accept Nuremberg as legitimate, then the Soviet Union had every right to prosecute the leaders of Finland, since they committed crimes against the peace. And even if you think the charges leveled during Nuremberg were ex post facto, charging the leaders of the Iraq Coalition would not be.

Eh? What the fuck have you been smoking? The whole war between Soviet Union and Finland came about because Stalin chose to attack us. We did not start a war of aggression and we were forced to accept a peace treaty that gave 10% of the country to the Soviets. When Hitler started his war against the Soviet Union, we took that back. After that, there was Finnish conquest of Russian Karelia, which was a stupid idea. Eventually the whole ended with the Winter War borders of 1940. But the whole fucking issue with Nürnberg and the basis of the trials there was war of aggression and all of the other horrors the Nazis perpetrated, but the biggest underpinning to that and what also became part of the core UN treaties was that starting a war of aggression was not okay.

So you can take your Soviet Stalin apologism, set it on fire, shove it up your ass and go fuck yourself.