Quotes about War Tribunals

Curtis LeMay

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

George W. Bush

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

Bill Clinton

America’s policy should be to oppose torture….if you have a policy which legitimizes this, it’s a slippery slope….If you have any kind of formal exception, people just drive a truck through it.

Clinton did believe that there might be a rare situation where extra judicial methods might be resorted to but he felt that those involved should be ready to take the responsibility and the consequence. He had suggested formalizing the theoretical exception, but then changed his mind as the exception would be abused.

Margaret Thatcher

The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.

Amy Poehler

In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said, 'Ah, good times.'

Julius Streicher

It is a trial within a nation but a trial of victors against the vanquished. Even before the trials started, the victors who are our judges were quite convinced that we were guilty and that we should all pay the price.

Robert McNamara

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

G. Edward Griffin

During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS Lieutenant General,...is shown here explaining how Farben operated such concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

War Tribunals Quotes