Re: May America lose the Iraq war

From: Bill Todd (billtodd@metrocast.net)
Date: 03/21/03

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    From: "Bill Todd" <billtodd@metrocast.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:47:37 -0500

    "S" <sleeping@sunset.net> wrote in message
    news:bGVnaW9uNTk=.4070c8d3f9415a31b60fd591466cb2fd@1048283968.cotse.net...
    >
    > >
    > > And do you believe that keeping saddam in power will
    > > > save more lifes then kicking him out with a short and lethal stroke ?
    > >
    > > Hard to say. But what's not at all hard to say is that such decisions
    are
    > > the sole responsibility of the U.N. Security Council, not of any one or
    two
    > > nations.
    > >
    >
    > ..the sole responsibility...
    >
    > Sez WHO?

    Well, for starters, the Nuremburg Tribunal (in which the U.S. played an
    important part) after WWII defined a crime against peace the "supreme
    international crime". And since most of the rest of the world seems pretty
    much united in the view that this U.S. action constitutes aggression without
    adequate cause, chances seem good that we would be considered criminals
    under that definition.

    And the U.N. Charter allows war only within narrow confines of self-defense
    or with explicit (and valid - which could easily exclude agreement obtained
    via arm-twisting) authorization from the Security Council (though the U.N.
    has tolerated war in cases of extreme emergency as well - such as prevention
    of imminent genocide). Not only does this have the force of international
    law, but since the U.N. Charter was ratified as a treaty by the Senate after
    WWII it has the force of U.S. law as well, since the Constitution (Article
    VI, clause 2) makes treaties 'the supreme law of the land'.

    Any other ignorant questions?

    - bill

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