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To: greenspirit who wrote (124159)	2/1/2004 9:28:11 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<What exactly are you going to arrest President Bush for Jacob?> Article VI of the U.S. Constitution establishes that ratified treaties, such as the U.N. Charter, are the "supreme law of the land." The Article 1 of the U.N. Charter establishes: "The purposes of the United Nations are. . . To maintain international peace and sovereignty, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removals of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace. . . ." Article 2 states that all member states "shall act in accordance with the following Principles: "...All members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered. "All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations...." At Nuremberg, the United States and Britain pressed the prosecution of Nazi leaders for planning and initiating aggressive war. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, the head of the American prosecution staff, asserted "that launching a war of aggression is a crime and that no political or economic situation can justify it." He also declared that "if certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us." Principle Vl of the Nuremberg Charter states: The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under; international law: a.Crimes against peace: i.Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances; So, by violating treaties we have signed, Bush is violating the Constitution. Waging wars of aggression is a violation of multiple treaties. The doctrine of "preventive war", (especially when it is coupled with faith-based intel) is identical to a criminal "war of aggression". The two terms are, in practice, indistinguishable.