[George W. Bush]

Of course, they completely ignore Article 1, Section 8, Subsection 10 which authorizes Congress to define and punish offenses against the laws of nations.

It does not authorize them to delegate that authority to any other body. The intent is that such actions be answerable to the People directly, not to hand off our sovereignty to international courts and corrupt anti-American organizations like the United Nations.

[mnehring]

It says plainly that congress has the authority to define and and punish offenses against the laws of nations. Whether congress decides to define US interest as following X law, is the congressional representation of the people. In this case, congress went into a treaty with the UN and Iraq (cession of hostility) which would be considered a law of nations. It defined that law as in the interest of the country and punished the offense against that law. It did not blindly hand off sovereignty of the US, it simply used the laws of nations as a tool in our interest.