I do not understand how the USA can get away with this. The USA invaded Iraq in an unprovoked attack, indeed after Iraq had done everything but surrender already in order to appease the demands of the US.

Why is the international community going along with this? German generals were hanged after Nuremberg for what Donald Rumsfeld and Tommy Franks have done, yet the Iraqis are going to be condemned for committing "war crimes"?

From the Judgement at Nuremberg:

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To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

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But I also think that the U.S. war was an aggressive war as defined at Nuremburg. I would add that there is actually a United Nations Convention which sets out the definition of "war of aggression" for the purposes of future prosecutions. I read it closely at the time Bush
was threatening war, and I was convinced that the
Iraq war was illegal.

Weren't the only German generals hanged at Nuremberg also Nazi party members and implicated in murderous politics, crimes against humanity, as well as in a war of aggression? I mean, I think of Jodl and Keitel, and especially Goering (in spite of his background), as political figures by wartime, at least as much as they were officers. (And Goering, of course, managed to cheat the hangman.)

The ones who were straight professional soldiers drew only prison terms, no?