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Crimes Trials?       Obviously there is a subtext to the TV
series: If that war was the most terrible ever and yet was
necessary, what about the subsequent wars and the present war?
It is, I suspect, the reason that the Journal's critic is so
measured in her approval.  Why was it necessary to invade Iraq?
Because they attacked us? But they did not. Most of the 9/11
killers were in fact Saudis. Because they had weapons that might
kill us? It turns out that they did not. Why is it necessary to
continue this pointless, never-ending war? For the sake of
democracy in Iraq? For victory? Because the president says it's
the "right thing" to do? So that a future president will be
blamed for "weakness?"  And I think of that young woman in St.
Angela Church in 1943 and of similar young women today and
wonder why we don't have war crimes trials for unnecessary wars.
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