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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (25810)	8/20/2003 10:13:10 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

I think Karl Rove will begin another war, either by spreading the current Bush war to Iran, or if the polls are really low he will provoke North Korea into destroying Seoul to create another 9/11 style galvalizing moment. TP

To: stockman_scott who wrote (25810)	8/20/2003 10:29:31 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 89467

"Recall Bush and get a real leader" YES! As the Bush Effect ruins more lives, benumbed Americans are beginning to wake up to the dangerous reality of Bush's presidency.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (25810)	8/20/2003 12:56:01 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 89467

Watch closely the inquiry going on in Great Britian. It deals with the highest level legal inquiry seen since WW II. At stake is Prime Minister Blair's standing and the legitimacy of his government's publicly stated grounds for going to war with Iraq. This inquiry will likely roll on for months. Through all the tightly reasoned arguments to be heard before the highest law officer in Great Britain, the likelihood is that Tony Blair and his Labor Government will stand condemned. They will be condemned for the action of leading the nation into war based on a grossly insufficient basis of facts, condemned for having entered the war without any legal legitimacy under international law, condemned for having uncritically followed in the Bush Administration's wake, and condemned for having saddled the British nation with an unending military, economic, moral, political and military commitment in Iraq and in the wider Middle East. If Blair is found to be at fault before this legal enquiry, it opens the door for a war crimes trial against Blair before the new International Court of Justice. And even if this does not happen, if the British court finds Prime Minister Blair at fault, he has to go, vacating his Prime Ministership and taking his entire Cabinet with him. If only some of his Ministers were to be found at fault, Blair is compelled to return to the back bench because he has to take responsibility for the actions of his Ministers. Another member of the British Labor party would have to take over as Prime Minister. A replacement Prime Minister, under such circumstances, could have no other first task than a culling of the current crew of Ministers, replacing them with others. His or her next two tasks, by default, would be to start looking for an exit for Great Britain's forces in Iraq - in the process, blowing apart the historic trans-Atlantic alliance with the US and then opening the door under international law for Great Britain to pay war damages and compensation to the in situ Government in Iraq, since the war itself would then be known to have been entirely illegitimate. But it is the final event when Britain's highest Law Lord renders his finding which will be decisive. If he does find fault, the international repercussions will cut like a knife under President George Bush. If fault is found against Blair, such fault will, by direct and legal implication, apply in like measure to President Bush. Apart from the International Court of Justice indicting both of them based upon the findings of the Blair inquiry, it will then be up to the Constitutional and legal conventions in the US. Where two men act together to wage war, one cannot be found at fault while the other one is left to continue in office unchallenged. Nor can Bush stand immune. If the Prime Minister goes down, he can take President Bush with him. And wouldn't that be just wonderful and lovely?