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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (110731)8/10/2003 2:41:23 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Following the provisions of the Constitution of the United States satisfies American law, but has no legal standing beyond our borders. Iraq is not part of the United States.

There is no law that supercedes the Constitution of the United States. You don't get it - there is no legal apparatus that supercedes the "internal decision-making process" of any nation-state. International law is only law insofar as the national authority agrees to be bound by it. And agrees to continue to be bound by it. Or is COERCED into abiding by its restrictions by nation-states or collections of nation-states whose interest(s) are served by doing so. International law DOES NOT have the same character as law of the State.

You did not answer the question at all. By what authority did we invade Iraq?

But I did. US Constitution (war powers). The highest authority in the United States. What perversion of law was authoratative in Iraq, or Asscrack, Timbuktoo, is irrelevant.

Derek
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