Posted on 11/30/2004 9:00:41 PM PST by FairOpinion
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 30 -- An influential U.N.-appointed panel challenged the Bush administration's right to use military force against an enemy that does not pose an imminent military threat. The 16-member panel, which was appointed by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, said in a long-awaited report that only the U.N. Security Council has the legal standing to authorize such a "preventive war."
The panel's findings reflect persistent international unease over the U.S. invasion of Iraq last year without an explicit council endorsement, noting that "there is little evident international acceptance of the idea of security being best preserved by a balance of power, or by any single -- even benignly motivated -- superpower." It also recommends the establishment of five guidelines that must be met before force can be legitimately used -- including a determination that force is used as a last resort and that the threat is serious.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I think this is another nail in the coffin of the UN and it's demise can't happen soon enough.
Here is another article, where you don't have to log in:
UN panel proposes criteria for legitimate military action
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1255527.htm
An ambitious blueprint for helping the world body adapt to new global realities in the 21st century, the panel's report said the following five criteria should be met for military action endorsed by the UN Security Council to be legitimate:
- Seriousness of threat. "Is the threatened harm to state or human security of a kind, and sufficiently clear and serious, to justify prima facie the use of military force? In the case of internal threats, does it involve genocide and other large-scale killing, ethnic cleansing or serious violations of international humanitarian law, actual or imminently apprehended?"
- Purpose of action. "Is it clear that the primary purpose of the proposed military action is to halt or avert the threat in question, whatever other purposes or motives may be involved?"
- Question of last resort. "Has every non-military option for meeting the threat in question been explored, with reasonable grounds for believing that other measures will not succeed?"
- Proportional means. "Are the scale, duration and intensity of the proposed military action the minimum necessary to meet the threat in question?"
-- Consequences. "Is there a reasonable chance of the military action being successful in meeting the threat in question, with the consequences of the action not likely to be worse than the consequences of inaction?"
The panel recommended that all of the UN's 191 member states should subscribe to the guidelines.
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And who is going to decide, the UN?
Bush has always stated we will make a preemptive move to destroy an enemy that is an emminent threat. Without the UN permission slip too!
There is nothing like repeatedly poking something that can easily destroy you with a stick. The UN's days are numbered (in weeks).
This what we can expect when the US Senate allows a traitor in there midst.
Where does Hanoi Kerry go when he does not show up for work?
I'll bet the little sissy traitor is at the UN selling his vcountry out.
He's done it before and will do it again.
Contact your current
senators and representatives
and main stream right wing media
and find out why Hanoi Kerry still is in the US Senate.
Demand that this traitor is removed from the US Senate now!
There is no need to impeach him.
He's in violation of the
US Constitution 14th Amendment Section 3
and violation of 18 USC 953
- Private correspondence with foreign governments
and UCMJ Section 904. ART. 104.
- Aiding the Enemy.
Don't be like the silent majority in the 60's and 70's
and turn your back on America and cave in to the anti war minority.
Speak up for America today!
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Full details on these url's!
http://tonkin.spymac.net/hanoikerry1.html
There is a backup site
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Timeline of Hanoi Kerry
http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html
Yawn.
BAAAAWWWWAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
Riiiiiightttt.....like we'll wait until the UN says we can protect ourselves......uh huh.
And most of them were bought and paid for by Saddam.
We jusy need to have one more "unauthorized" invasion. It'll take place on Manhattan Island and reclaim for the US some prime development property, complete with office buildings and meeting rooms. (They will, of course, have to be fumigated!)
"The 16-member panel, which was appointed by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, said in a long-awaited report that only the U.N. Security Council has the legal standing to authorize such a "preventive war."
It's time for a pre-emptive war against the UN. I am more convinced than ever that they need to be destroyed.
The key legal term is "anticipatory self defense," and contrary to what you might hear from left wing groups, it's a well-known and well-used doctrine.
The Global test Doctrine was defeated at the polls Nov. 2nd.
Too bad for the U.N.
Actually, they did. But, they will never admit it.
De-fund them and throw the bums out.
NOW THE TRUTH BECOMES CLEAR!!!
It's a conspiracy! Kofi and Jacques know they're going to get kicked out of the US and they're planning to move the UN HQ to the Ivory Coast.
(And they're not even going to pay the natives $24 in trinkets!)
Then it's time to "reject" the UN contribuions and aid.
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