On the other hand, an approved interpretation of the convention holds that conditions that go against the basics of the convention are not acceptable.The homeland-Iraq war had the dubious distinction of evincing all the evils of the first world war, 40 years after the second. From trenches, to chemical weapons, and from total war to child soldiers, the conflict was in many ways a startling revenant from a bygone era. It is on the last evil of the war that this article will examine.