by Jeffrey Turner <jturner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jan 10, 2008 at 04:12 PM
Vandar wrote:
> 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.
Right. So all the laws and appointments put in place by Bremer have
been nullified?
>> 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."
International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment
yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded
that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0%2C2763%2C1089158%2C00.html
--Jeff
--
Ignorance, allied with power, is the
most ferocious enemy justice can have.
-James Baldwin
