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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Spytrdr who wrote (6880)	2/9/2003 9:27:47 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

The UN Charter does not trump the Constitution.... Bush's duty is first to protect US national interests....especially security.....

To: Spytrdr who wrote (6880)	2/9/2003 11:26:42 PM
From: Spytrdr	Respond to of 25898

<<Putin also rejected U.S. goals of a "regime change" in Iraq. "The task of reckoning with Saddam Hussein does not stand before us," Putin said in an interview with France-3 television, part of which was aired on Russian television Sunday. "There is nothing in the U.N. Charter that would allow the U.N. Security Council to make a decision to change the political regime of one country or another — whether we like that regime or not.">> story.news.yahoo.com

To: Spytrdr who wrote (6880)	2/10/2003 2:24:12 AM
From: Spytrdr	Respond to of 25898

Annan Warns Against Bypassing Security Council washingtonpost.com

To: Spytrdr who wrote (6880)	2/10/2003 12:44:54 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Have you ever thought what the world would be like if the U.S. just shut our doors and tended to our own needs and wants? Think of it. Every dictator and 2 bit hooligan on earth would try to make their own little kingdom. You would have war after war, And we as a nation could just stand back and watch each little conflict develop and never move a finger. Yeah that would be real human, save us a lot of money and ....... hey it's just what the U.N. charter would like. We need to get the U.N. out of the U.S. send them packing and maybe they will wise up. As for that cowboy in the White House, Thank God he thinks for himself. He is doing the job to the best of his ability and has a great team around him. I support him all the way.

To: Spytrdr who wrote (6880)	2/10/2003 8:32:59 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25898

I'm convinced that the terror alert warning, on the heels of Bush and Powell's co-televised presention to the nation, on the heels of Powell presenting to the Unition Nations, was precisely architected to elicit the following effect: abcnews.go.com The last thing Bush wants to be is down in the polls when he decides to ignore the United Nations want for peace, not war. Again, I'm of the belief it'll require Gandhi-like behavior on the part of Hans Blix and Mohamed Elbaredi, and weapons inspectors who'll stick with them, to remain in Baghdad in order to prevent Bush and Blair from bombing. Perhaps the Pope should go there as well. Anyone think Bush and Blair would bomb the pope? Indeed, if anyone knows the pope, please pass this information on to him--thanks!

To: Spytrdr who wrote (6880)	3/11/2003 4:39:55 PM
From: Spytrdr	Respond to of 25898

Law Professors’ Statement Challenging US War Plans A US War Against Iraq Will Violate US and International Law and Set a Dangerous Precedent For Violence That Will Endanger the American People President Bush maintains that Iraq’s "decade of defiance" of United Nations resolutions justifies a war against Iraq. But the President ignores the fact that a US war, unleashed without the approval of the UN Security Council, against a country that has not attacked the United States, would itself be an unlawful act, in defiance of America’s treaty obligations, and a violation of US and international law. Our Constitution provides that treaties signed by the President and ratified by the Senate are part of the "supreme Law of the Land." The United Nations Charter, which our nation wrote in large part, and signed and ratified as a treaty in 1945, provides that — except in response to an armed attack — nations may neither threaten nor engage in warfare without the authorization of the UN Security Council. President Bush swore to uphold and defend the Constitution. Yet he advocates a right to ignore our treaty obligations and to visit the scourge of war upon Iraq, with or without the approval of the United Nations. The dangerous path America is treading will only lead to more suffering by Americans, as well as by others.The international rule of law is not a soft luxury to be discarded whenever leaders find it convenient or popular to resort to savage violence. The international rule of law is a bulwark against the horrors of warfare that we Americans have so recently felt first-hand. Every nation that has ever committed aggression against another claimed to be "defending" itself. The United States helped establish the United Nations precisely in order to impose the rule of law on such claims, to make it unlawful for nations to strike against others unless they were themselves under armed attack. The United States is not under armed attack by Iraq. Lawless international violence only breeds more killing of innocent people. The massive civilian deaths, the scarred and maimed children, the ruined and starving peoples, whose suffering is inseparable from warfare, can only spawn new generations of embittered peoples, new hate-filled leaders, new enraged individuals, determined to answer violence with violence. The American people are not made safer by the unilateral use of force, in violation of the "supreme Law of the Land" and the United Nations Charter. We are further endangered. Lawless violence generates recruits for terrorism. We, teachers of law at American law schools, protest the Bush administration’s illegal plan to conduct a war against Iraq. We call upon our government to step back from the brink of war and allow the United Nations to resolve the crisis peacefully, patiently, and lawfully. the-rule-of-law.com