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Originally Posted by yys
Please, He said we were in Afghanistan illegally but the UN has authorized there presence there so how is it illegal again.
Here's a more recent one which mentions the OEF coalition; nothing about them being in Afghanistan illegally either. Hmmmmmm
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/newsroo...CR-1707_en.pdf
Now you.
How about something from the ICC or U.N. instead of a public international law essay by Sulman Hassan, graduate in law from Liverpool John Moores University . You can see the difference between my source and yours can't you? |
Listen, you post links after links of UN documents of various resolutions ... but the US DID not comply to those resolutions:
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WAR OF AGGRESSION AGAINST AFGHANISTAN
Bush, Jr. instead went to the United National Security Council to get a
resolution authorizing the use of military force against Afghanistan and
Al Qaeda. He failed. You have to remember that. This war has never been authorized by the United Nations Security Council. If you read the two
resolutions that he got, it is very clear that what Bush, Jr. tried to
do was to get the exact same type of language that Bush, Sr. got from the
U.N. Security Council in the late fall of 1990 to authorize a war
against Iraq to produce its expulsion from Kuwait. It is very clear if you read
these resolutions, Bush, Jr. tried to get the exact same language twice
and they failed. Indeed the first Security Council resolution refused to
call what happened on September 11 an "armed attack" - that is by one
state against another state. Rather they called it "terrorist attacks."
But the critical point here is that this war has never been approved by
the U.N. Security Council so technically it is illegal under
international
law. It constitutes an act and a war of aggression by the United States
against Afghanistan.
NO DECLARATION OF WAR
Now in addition Bush, Jr. then went to Congress to get authorization to
go to war. It appears that Bush, Jr. tried to get a formal declaration
of war along the lines of December 8, 1941 after the Day of Infamy like
FDR got on Pearl Harbor. Bush then began to use the rhetoric of Pearl
Harbor. If he had gotten this declaration of war Bush and his lawyers
knew full well he would have been a Constitutional Dictator. And I refer
you here to the book by my late friend Professor Miller of George
Washington University Law School, Presidential Power that with a formal
declaration of war the president becomes a Constitutional Dictator. He
failed to get a declaration of war. Despite all the rhetoric we have
heard by the Bush,
Jr. administration Congress never declared war against Afghanistan or
against anyone. There is technically no state of war today against
anyone
as a matter of constitutional law as formally declared.
The Illegalities of the Bush, Jr. War Against Afghanistan*
by Professor Francis A. Boyle
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please, if you post another link, highlight the parts and discuss them or show an opinion by a scholar or a person qualified ( that excludes Juicy D. Links " I like pie " )....