When Obama fails, it’s all Bush’s fault.
Not to make light of an article which makes well-taken points, with which I very much agree. But as a lawyer of many decades, the above quote had me laughing. From what he has shown us in Washington, Professor Barrack Obama, as a Constitutional scholar is a total joke! Most rooted fifth graders could be expected to show a better understanding of American Constitutional Law.
William Flax
Pooty-Poot has a pen and a phone too.
All of which is true.
The last time America intervened to protect Americans was in Grenada.
Since then its busied itself reordering other countries to its liking and appointing governments for them.
And here its accusing Russia of doing the very same things that itself stands guilty of. Psychologists call it projection.
Put quite simply, Ukraine is none of our business. The Russians haven’t turned it into a Guernica and no one in the West can claim they have troops anywhere openly occupying Ukraine.
As for Crimea - most of it is Russian. Its not Russia that is living in another world, but the West, led by America that is oblivious to the human rights of the people who live there, including their right to decide their own future.
Its bad enough when America doesn’t come with clean hands to the court. What’s really inexcusable are two things: America is backing a regime no body in Ukrained voted for and its also invoking a Ukrainian Constitution to deny the right of the Crimeans that as it turns out, no body in Ukraine voted to ratify.
This is what America and the West mean by democracy: supporting lawlessness and usurping the rights of minorities. They can spare Russia the hypocritical indignation as well as the bullying and the pressure. Its not a principled position.
Which is exactly what the world and Americans too, have come to expect from the Obama Administration and its leading officials. And moreover, whilst they lecture to Russia about the sanctity of international law, they cannot faithfully execute the laws of their own country.
America should put its own glass house in order before it throws stones at Russia.
The case against Saddam Hussein was not trumped up. Hussein’s fingerprints were all over the anthrax attacks which followed 9/11 and it does not take hundreds of tons of anthrax spores to create pandemonium, all that was involved was a few tablespoons full. The most major cases of trumped up US rationals for US involvement in recent times have been Serbia/Kosovo in 1999 and Libya in 2011.
I pretty much do the same.
--someone might point out to this individual that Blair and Bush took that action on the advice of all of the major powers "intelligence" services and with the blessing of their respective legislatures -and the U. N.---
“Obama, a former law professor...”
If the author can’t get this fact right, how are we to believe the rest of what he has to say?
We’ve been on wild goose chases ever since Presidents stopped asking Congress for a formal declaration of war. If there is any part of the Constitution that conservatives should emphasis, it is that Congressional action. Instead we have been using various Constitutional work-arounds for the President to commit military forces. These do not unite the nation but foster political second guessing and opposition.
Somehow we are expected to give blood and treasure to anyone who wants to start a revolution and get us to bail them out. Others expect us to provide job exporting trade deficit to the world. Regardless of who is President, we need to rebuild America to be the strongest in the world and that includes the resurrection of MADE IN USA. If we had exported our factories to China, Germany and Japan we would have lost WW II. We need American nationalism not world adventurism.
Inconvenient facts aside, the case that Putin will do whatever he desires is correct. One purpose of diplomacy is to see that the stage of decision-making through armored formations is not reached. 0bama's has failed. This will go where Putin drives it, no more, no less.
“Secretary of State John Kerry risked utter ridicule when he declared it unacceptable to invade another country on a “completely trumped-up pretext,” or just because you don’t like its current leadership. Iraq in 2003 springs instantly to mind.”
Where and when we heard that before?
1999 - “Milosevici killed 100,000 Albanian Kosovars” (no bodies were found)
2003 - “Saddam Hussein has Weapons of Mass Destruction” (no WMD were found)
and now
2014 “Yanukovich sent snipers to kill peaceful demonstrators” IT REMAINS TO BE PROVED!
A leaked phone call between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet has revealed that the two discussed that the blame of the killing of civilian protesters in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, is on the radical militiamen rather than the government police forces.
youtu.be/ZEgJ0oo3OA8
youtu.be/eXp-SiMXbnU
Olga Bogomolets, who gave the information to the Estonian minister, is a public figure and a respectable doctor, who has actually taken part in the Maidan movement from the onset and was tending to the wounded victims herself, along with other doctors. You can google her name. She certainly cannot be suspected of being a Yanukovich sympathizer. She saw the wounded and the dead herself, and also showed photos to the Estonian minister, who, being not too crazy about Russia himself, wouldn’t go broadcasting the news if he believed it was just a rumour
The Estonian foreign ministry confirmed the leaked conversation was accurate. “So there is a stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not Yanukovych, it was somebody from the new coalition,” Urma
When will they stop trying to fool us?
“Obama, following in Bush’s footsteps, who has repeatedly and cynically flouted international law by launching or backing myriad armed attacks on foreign soil, in Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan to name a few, without U.N. security council authorization”
Watch this video: When Victoria Nuland was setting up the “new” Maidan-putschist government of Ukraine, as a time (January 2014) when V.Yanoukovih was the legitimately elected president, in a call with US ambassador to Kiev Geoffrey Pyatt
youtu.be/qv7qy7jot30
Washington was heavily meddling in the Ukrainian political crisis by manipulating the pro-EU opposition and helping it in its efforts to oust President Viktor Yanukovich.
It’s just disgusting , anyone who loves freedom should be shocked and appalled by the actions of the US and EU. Many people were killed by putschists on the place, demonstrators AND policemen, so that the US could install a puppet government whose primary aim will no doubt be to antagonise Russia / Putin.
The US was caught red-handed interfering into a sovereign nation’s government. The Maidan-puppet PM Yatsenyuk sold out Ukraine to the USA. It is obvious from the conversation that Yatsenyuk talked to Nuland and the ambassador beforehand.
BFL