Re: [ Iraq ] My Blind Spot

From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 22:26:39 MST

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    "Hubert Mania" <humania@t-online.de>

    >The international law (German: Voelkerrecht = people's law) Bush is now
    >acting against is written down in the charta of the United Nations.

    Baloney! Nowhere in the UN charter does it say that the USA can not use
    military force unless the UN says it is OK, if it had said that there is no
    way on God's green earth the Senate of the United States would ever have
    ratified the treaty and America would never have joined the UN in the first
    place

    >Now, the UN has not approved of a preemptive war

    True.

    >so Bush is acting against international law.

    No, it means the UN will not be engaged in a preemptive war, it says nothing
    about individual nations doing it. By the way, why do you call the UN
    suggestions such as resolution 1441 a "law"? To be worthy of the name a law
    needs to be enforced and the Security Council has proven incapable of that,
    and that is why International Law is a joke and Americans are unwilling to
    bet their life on it.

    >your country has lost friends by the dozens.

    No we have not lost friends, we have lost sympathy for 911 but that sympathy
    did us absolutely no good, they were willing to cry for us but that is all.
    Actually this recent UN business has been useful, it helped the us determine
    who our real friends are and knowledge is always better than ignorance.

         John K Clark jonkc@att.net



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