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Gerry Simpson, author of Law, War and Crime, names the three types of crimes that constitute war crimes.
Simpson believes the "major revolution" of the Nuremberg Trials was the ability to prosecute nations for abusing their own citizens.
Julian Burnside names sovereign immunity to be a nation's greatest protection against invasion.
However, Burnside believes a nation's sovereign immunity should be forfeited when the head of a state begins to kill, torture, or mistreat citizens.
Gerry Simpson, author of Law, War and Crime, retrospectively recommends "doing nothing" as the alternative to invading Iraq.
"War is a nasty business," Simpson says, and argues that the Iraq invasion only exacerbating tensions and inhibiting future diplomatic behavior.
Drawing from the example of Henry Kissinger, Gerry Simpson discusses the international criminal court (ICC) which tries war criminals.
The Bush Administration has fought the ICC's power because the U.S. conducts military operations world-wide.