rem460@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> 6>
> Iraq War Is UNCONSTITUTIONAL
>
> Article VI of the United States Constitution says
> that ratified treaties "shall be the supreme law of the
> land". The United Nations Charter was ratified by the
> United States Senate in 1945.
>
> Article 2 of the United Nations Charter states that
> "all members shall refrain in their international
> relations from the threat or use of force against the
> territorial integrity or political independence of any
> state".
Iraq's territorial integrity and political independence are intact.
> Article 51 of the United Nations Charter allows the
> right of self-defense ONLY "if an armed attack occurs"
> against the country invoking the right.
Wrong. Read it again:
"Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of
individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against
a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken
measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.
Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence
shall be immediately re****ted to the Security Council and shall not in
any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council
under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems
necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and
security."
