Most Islamic nations have become party to international humanitarian law treaties which prohibit summary executions of war captives, and unlike the ijma which requires scholars this decision lies on the leaders.
Her clarifications for her support of the various pro-war bills proposed by President Bush revolve around her criticisms of the execution of the war, not around the thinking that led us into the war in the first place.
In late 2002, the Defense Department's office of Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (solic) asked retired Army Colonel Hy Rothstein, a leading military expert in unconventional warfare, to examine the planning and execution of the war in Afghanistan, with an understanding that he would focus on Special Forces.
Concluding his military service in 1970, he questioned the purpose and execution of the war and was a cofounder of the Vietnam Veterans of America and a spokesperson for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
This administration has acted on the borderline of criminal negligence in execution of the war.
For both friend and foe he had embodied the Copperhead opposition to Lincoln's execution of the war and emancipation of the slaves.
Mr. Hagel voted for the resolution that authorized the invasion but rapidly became a critic of the Bush administration's execution of the war.
The dissent rests heavily on concerns about "the risk of the judiciary prying into matters of national security or disrupting the military's efficient execution of a war".
Though the movement may be suffused with idealism and proud nationalism, it also bears a hard edge, with demands for the execution of convicted war criminals.
But unlike those senators, General Clark can also criticize President Bush's execution of the war in Iraq without having to explain a vote in favor of it.
