Not to wax philisophical here but what IS legal?
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Regime change in Iraq became a stated goal of United States foreign policy when Public Law 105-338 (the "Iraq Liberation Act") was signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton. The act directed that:
"It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime."
Was the Iraq war illegal? Poll
Secret? Clinton said it was official US policy.
Was the election of Barack Obama legal?
Where’s the polls on that?
What a huge secret. Congress passed a law stating that and Bill Clinton signed it in 1998.
Wars are either just or unjust, not legal or illegal. The Iraq war is just.
“Laws of war” is a goofy concept to begin with. Laws much have an enforcement mechanism ... the UN cannot exercise mandatory enforcement.
The laws of war are written by the victors, and are largely irrelevant during the war. The losers are prosecuted, the winners are not.
Not only that ... but laws of war are entirely unenforceable against more powerful militaries. If the US truly committed a war crime — who could do anything about it? The UN could raise the greatest military force it could muster, and we could likely crush it where it stood.
A law without an enforcement provision is a legal irrelevancy.
SnakeDoc
The power was given to the President by congessional vote to “use force”. That is pretty clear to me.
I like the philosophical question posed as to what makes a war really legal?
Wow! Unexpected results.
I found this the other day. Doesn’t make Cheney look too good. Curious how much is true. The first article. Just read down some.
parsy, who is watching the Monk marathon
Remember war is good, until it conflicts with a leftist and Homo-Leninist agenda; just look at Africa, Middle East and Bosnia…
Who you gonna believe? ;-)
There is no INTERNATIONAL LAW since there is NOT ONE BIG GOVERNMENT of the world!
Case closed!
This is a bad HOAX from the libtard propaganda machine(obaMAO involved?)
i’d say that bush’s intellegance on iraq was probally 80%- i would have liked to have seen photos, or a team go in there to varify- the commander in chief needs to be 100% positive before he puts americans soldiers in harms way. i think bush was alittle aggressive towards iraq, but it is a 2 headed coin also- are we better off with S. Hussein gone? yeah, i think so
“Either war is obsolete or men are’’.
Was the Iraq war illegal?
Yes 50%
No 50%
You voted: No
It wasn’t illegal.
We were in a state of cessation of hostilities form Gulf War I.
Iraq had repeatedly broken 17 of the 29 requirements for a continued “Cessation of Hostilities”.
In the lense of 911, we were done and had every right to resume hostilities. However, we went to the U.N. and sought their stamp of approval, for resumption and to enforce our 1998 Iraq Liberation Act, which was signed into law by all 100 Senators, at that time and Bill Clinton, the then current President.
The United States acted as lead in a coalition of several countries and with the consent of the U.N.
Was the Iraq war Illegal? No. It had lasted 12 years longer than necessary.
When that expired, Dec 31, 2008, the legal basis was the Status of Forces Agreement aka Iraq Security Agreement