Comments on: Illegal Iraq War, War Criminals

By: Linda Muir

Linda Muir — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:24:07 +0000

Thank goodness there are people like you to take on the unbelievable mess of Impeachment and/or War Criminals. I believe the president should be Impeached but after Cheney is Impeached. Our country is being run by mad men. We have everything to proceed. Where do we go from here?

By: Magnus

Magnus — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:54:57 +0000

No matter perspective you are starting from, yes, Bush & Cheney should be removed from office and face additional criminal charges.

Current and former members of the Bush administration should be investigated for their roles in this.

Voters should be furious over this and they’re really not. Most people just want to be ruled. They’ll gripe and complain but then the people in power distract them with something else like a surge in gasoline prices or something just as unimportant and the important issues disappear from the national consciousness.

Big media is complicit in this, absolutely.

The issues were much smaller than this, and upset fewer people, back in the 18th century when we were just a bunch of colonists under the British crown.

By: tarheelcoxn

tarheelcoxn — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:52:30 +0000

That makes me an even more sad puppy.

Still… shouldn’t we start the accountability train somewhere? Isn’t most logical to start with the people who led us into this illegal occupation?

By: Magnus

Magnus — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:24:47 +0000

I wasn’t disagreeing with or contradicting with your point at all. Just making an additional point that the pooch screw is even broader in scope than that, and for those of us who place US sovereignty higher than international law, there are plenty of reasons to throw elected officials in jail based solely on US law.

There are plenty of laws being broken here to offend anyone of almost any political persuasion.

By: tarheelcoxn

tarheelcoxn — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:01:35 +0000

You’ll note that my argument isn’t dependent on us being in a declared state of war. The argument merely hangs on our participation in the UN (ie. the status of the UN Charter as binding domestic law) and the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq as a violation of that Charter.

The President might use the complicity of a previous Congress as an affirmative defense, but he would still be accepting his status as a War Criminal.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:42:14 +0000

When was war ever declared? When did Congress live up to its powers delegated to it in Article I, Section 8 of our Constitution?

None of this ever happened. Legally, at least according to our own law, we’re not at war. We haven’t been at war since World War II. Our involvement in Vietnam, Korea, Kuwait, Iraq, etc… Congress never declared war.

Yet Congress continues to fund these undeclared wars.

You can’t just take out the president and vice president. The blame extends to the previous Republican congress and more worryingly the current Democrat controlled congress that got into power on the promise of quickly ending the war. Yeah, how’s that plan going? Not so well.

But We The People haven’t been holding our elected officials to the standards of the Constitution for several generations now, so why should we expect the current batch of congresscritters to be any different?

By: Starhawk

Starhawk — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:08:48 +0000

Yep, I agree and have been saying exactly that and more for a long time now. Bush and Cheney need prosecuted and the fact this is unlikely makes a mockery of the notion of “justice” which they obviously spell as just-us.