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The Iraq war was lost the day that the pictures came out of Abu Graihb . No income tax , no foreign wars , no welfare state , no intrusions on civil liberties . How can you considering that its main products are wars , pogroms , prosecutions , persecutions , taxation , regulation , inflation , and assorted idiocy ? In that letter , he states , “ The whole point is that the people of the world should realize acutely that war does not pay , and should take the steps to abolish war . In an overwhelming number of cases , the ICRC has been able to persuade the warring parties in conflicts around the world to treat these detainees in accordance with the humanitarian principles set out in the Geneva Conventions , which have been adopted by virtually every country in the world . The main conclusions of the paper are : the very act of adoption of a minorities protecting law in Croatia on the pattern of the leading European democracies is a general advance in the protection of minority rights , both for Croatia and for other lands in the region , but still national legislation in the field needs to be further developed one of the legislative problems in the context of the fifth elections in Croatia is the inability of minorities to vote for both , minority and non-minority , candidates at the same time , although the Constitutional Law guarantees double voting which implies that the Constitutional law will require adjustments in the future The main recommendations are for : harmonization of national legislation in the area of minority protection with the Constitutional Law , international and European law enabling proportional representation of minorities in local executive bodies and bodies of national administration and judiciary education of individuals , citizens , politicians , judges , attorneys , civil servants , and media on the importance of promoting tolerance with respect to minority groups enabling the functioning of the state of law and order – to process war and other crimes At the end , the authors point out that the political and economic stability of Croatia together with public awareness of the necessity to foster diversity and tolerance in the society should be the primary objectives and factors for the minority protection policy . Using modern climate and population models , researchers estimated that a small-scale nuclear conflict between two warring nations would cause 3 million to 17 million immediate casualties and lead to a marked cooldown of the planet that could lead to crop failures and further misery . This Monday , I visited in Baghdad and I sat and talked with the leaders chosen by the people - - Sunni , Shia , Kurds , nonaligned - - and I heard from them not the jarring messages of the warring factions but one simple , clear and united discourse . The citizens were turning on each other and bands of people began to build protective clans that warred with each other . This approach served us very well during the Cold War , because Bush 's science policy was predicated upon serving the military needs of our nation , ensuring national pride in our scientific and technological accomplishments , and developing a strong scientific , technological , and manufacturing enterprise that would serve us well not only in peace but also would be essential for this country in both the Cold War and potential hot wars . But a series of conventional wars pretty much guarantees this outcome [ a nuclear bomb in Manhattan ] , whereas the counterinsurgency approach at least has a chance of success . Following a number of cease-fire agreements , a peace accord between the warring parties was finally signed in January 2005 bringing hope for a return to stability in this part of the country . John Humphrey , a past director of the UN Human Rights Division , says Japan has " pressured members of the UN Subcommission on Human Rights to drop compensation claims by Asian women forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers during World War II. " Japan , he added , is " a very strong country with a lot of allies and this is a quid pro quo .