From Yahoo News/AP:GENEVA – An independent U.N. human rights investigator said Thursday that the United States is failing to properly investigate alleged war crimes committed by its soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Although some cases are investigated and lead to prosecutions, others aren't or result in lenient sentences, said Philip Alston, the U.N. Human Rights Council's special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings.
"There have been chronic and deplorable accountability failures with respect to policies, practices and conduct that resulted in alleged unlawful killings — including possible war crimes — in the United States' international operations," Alston said in a report dated May 26 and published on a U.N. Web site.
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My Comment: Personally, I always believed that war .... by its nature .... can be classified as a crime. But to enforce rules of conduct and behavior is next to possible with the exception of the more extreme cases. I give credit to the idealists in the UN for publishing this report, but nothing is going to come out of it.
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