Re: Iraq War Has Been UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Jeffrey Turner wrote:
> 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?

List any laws and appointments that haven't been deemed acceptable by 
the elected government of Iraq.

>>>                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
> 
>                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It doesn't say a country has a right to self-defense ONLY if they are 
attacked. It says the Charter will not prevent self-defense in the event 
of an attack.

In other words, it has no relevance to Iraq.

>> 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

Richard Perle's opinion is worth almost as much as Daisy Mae Wilkins' 
opinion.