European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 22, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 13 commentary William f. Buckley or. There is something surrealistic about the situation in Iraq. V so a a a the government of Iraq is protesting the Aid we Are giving a million kurd driven from their Homes by the government of Iraq and afraid to return for fear of execution. We who Are dropping band aids and doughnuts Are on the defensive. Then the government of Iraq asks the United nations to hurry up and permit the Sale of 1 billion barrels of Oil so that the government of Iraq can buy things it needs for its people. More than $5 billion of Oil belonging to Kuwait has been destroyed because the government of Iraq torched All kuwaiti Wells As a final gesture. Of Defiance bringing on an ecological asphyxiation blighting the whole Region. The government of Iraq of course is quite simply Saddam Hussein. From the quarterly International lawyer an article a Justice Jackson at Nairn bergs by Whitney r. Harris of St. Louis summer 1986 a a Jackson inquired whether because of the Fuhrer system the attack was made upon the soviet Union in 1941 despite Goering a personal opposition and without Public participation or knowledge. Goer ing responded the German people did not know about the declaration of War against Russia until after the War with Russia had started the German people therefore had nothing to do with this the German people were not asked they were told of the fact and the necessity for  and when asked Why the War was continued after it was Clear that Germany would be Defeated at the Cost of the devastation of German cities and populace Goering testified that As Long As Hitler was the Fuhrer of the German people he alone decided whether the War was to continue. Goering asserted that despite hitlers accusations of disloyalty he never thought for a minute of taking Over Power illegally or of acting against the Fuhrer in any  the testimony cited was taken in March 1946, absolute confirmation of the Fuhrer Prinzio a which governs today in Iraq As it did then in Germany. And reminding us that the alternatives to going in there and arresting Saddam Are preposterous and outrageous a a utter evasions. /. A a Quot a a on thursday the Senate by voice vote petitioned the president to set into motion machinery to try Saddam Hussein As a War criminal in March attorney Whitney Harris served As chairman of a symposium comprising attorneys who had served As prosecutors at Niernberg and at 12 subsequent trials before . Military tribunals. These were at the time Young lawyers assisting Lee Mitgang chief . Prosecutor Robert Jackson and his principal assistant Thomas Dodd. The symposium agreed on a Resolution passed on March 23 the final paragraph of which reads a a we urge that the United nations the United states and its coalition partners and All peace losing nations take All appropriate action to investigate indict prosecute and punish those iraqi nationals who have planned and prosecuted an aggressive War against Kuwait or committed War crimes or crimes against humanity in the course of that War in violation of the Niernberg principles the United nations charter the Security Council resolutions or International con mentions of which Iraq is a signatory.�?�. The prose is Stuffy and one shrinks from references to a peace Loving nations a Given the abuse of that term. But Whitney Harris and his colleagues were driving Home important political and Legal Points. There was some Contention leading up to Niernberg on whether we were engaging in sex Post Facto Law when charging the defendants with crimes of aggression. And to have admitted As a qualified judge the representative of Josef Stalin contaminated the proceeding but in fact the stalinist a vote was never needed to make the Points the tribunal wished to make or to convict  decided to convict and the stalinist was overridden when the tribunal exonerated two defendants. But whatever the objections to Niernberg the fact is that we were left with a precedent. In his essay on Justice Jackson Harris reminds us that Jackson was especially careful to Lay Down the groundwork on which reasonable men could concert to insist on Justice. A the tribunal concluded that it was unnecessary a to consider at any length the extent to which these aggressive wars were also wars in violation of International treaties agreements or  the tribunal observed that a the Maxim Wullum Crimen sine lege where there is a crime there is also a Law against its commission is not a limitation of sovereignty but is in general a principle of  a a \ the Legal groundwork is indisputably there Saddam Hussein is indisputably an indictable defendant and the object of our policies at this Point should be to arrest him. Universal Piess Syndicate a v. Bush adds variables to education quotient the freshest ingredient in president Bush a new education Reform Stew May be one notably absent in past efforts a genuine Call for teamwork to improve schools. A a. A a a served up thursday by Bush and education Secretary Lamar Alexander it featured elements that teacher unions and others in the educational establishment have railed against for years. Among them Merit pay for teachers Al tentative teacher and principal certification. A National system of achievement tests school Choice extending even to private schools and the notion that As Bush put it a Dollar Bills done to educate  the plan even took the idea of parental Choice a step further. The plan suggests allowing Money from a $6 billion Federal program to follow needy children to any school they choose to attend including private schools. In less politically adroit hands than alexanders the proposal could have brought a torrent of criticism that would have obscured All else in the new initiative. But that did no to happen. Reactions and criticisms were generally restrained. Most including Alexander seemed eager to avoid ideological Battles and to try to make a fresh Start at achieving National goals of school excellence agreed upon 18 months ago when Bush held an education Summit with the 50 state governors. A the nations governors have been at the table of Reform for several years. Bush has said a i will come to the table and join  we Welcome that a said Colorado gov. Roy Romer chairman of a National panel that has been studying ways to set school goals. Others revealed in the fact that business labor the educational establishment and every Agency of government were for the first time in years being handed a Heartfelt presidential invitation to be partners in Reform. Keith Geiger president of the National education. Association which engaged in a bruising Battle Over Merit pay a few years ago with Alexander when he was Tennessee governor said a we compliment the president for being bold. The whole idea of school people business people and Community people working together is  said William Lepley Iowa a state education director who disagrees with extending school Choice to private schools Quot we went through a period with previous secretaries of education. We be gone from William Bennett the bully of the bully pulpit to someone who a trying to put together a Strong  most strikingly big business once regarded warily by educators was tagged As a key player in the Bush initiative. Bush called on business leaders to establish and raise $ 150 million for a new non profit organization that will help develop untraditional ways of schooling. Bringing everyone together to ensure excellent schools and healthy school ready children is the essence of the initiative Alexander said Friday i think its critically important. The fires Dent wants the business leaders the Abor leaders and All the educators involved. But in a under no illusions. 1 can to imagine the Nea and the administration going through this without some arguments but i like their attitude a he said. Whether or not the latest initiative truly Marks a break from the ideological squabbles that slowed Reform for most of the 1980s, officials weren to minimizing the Battles ahead., its no sure thing for example that the business Community will fall in line behind the Bush administrations conservative views on school Choice or opposition to significant new education spending. Bush Calls for just $690 million in new funds in fiscal 1992, mostly Grants to support innovative schools to be started in each congressional District. A we have to be honest in this country that while dollars May not educate children resources Are needed to Deal with children in need the bulk of Money should come from state and local government. But we should not say that we done to need additional resources a said Sandra Kessle Hamburg director of education studies for the committee for economic development. \ the committee a group of More than 200 corporate executives issued a report last february calling for $10 billion in new spending on Early childhood programs and terming school Choice a a Quick and easy solution unlikely in itself to promote better schools Hamburg added that businesses such As Rwjr Nabisco have already sunk millions into supporting innovative schools and would not necessarily be Quick to heed Bush Scall to bankroll a new $150 million research and development Effort. Still by beckoning everyone into the Reform tent Bush May have hit on something missing so far in the drive for better education making everyone accountable a and everyone to blame if nothing happens. A the associated press. 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