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Originally posted by Mulhollanddose
I am still waiting for the law Bush broke. What Constitutional mandate was violated?...Your argument is evidently not only with Bush's Executive branch, but with the Judiciary and Legislative alike. They all agree that during wartime the Executive Branch is granted extraordinary powers.
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And you found that grant of power in the Constitution, where, exactly? That the government via Congress, president, and with the malfeasance of the courts has granted itself powers not authorized by the Constitution is true.
It's not legitimate power, it's stolen power.
Bush's law breaking has become legion. Here's two.
1. The US government joined the UN under a treaty signed by a sitting president, ratified by the Senate. That makes it binding, under the Constitution, on the US government. One of the clauses of that treaty is that no member nation may attack another member nation, unless expressly authorized by UN resolution. No such resolution exists, in fact the Bush Junta began to seek such a resolution in the fall of 2002, and when it became apparent that either or both France and Russia were going to veto it in the UNSC, and it would be heavily shot down in the General Assembly; Bush dropped that approach and invaded unilaterally.
2. On the first night of the invasion, prior to troop deployments, Bush publically stated that he authorized the bombing of a private home because of intelligence indicating that Saddam Hussein was physically inside the home. This attack leveled an entire block of homes, killing approximately two dozen people. That's a war crime under both US and International law, for which Bush should be arrested and put on trial.
There are many more, but those are sufficient to establish my point as correct.