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Originally posted by fintstone
You guys are confused. What "treaty" are you talking about? There is no �UN Treaty�, there is only a charter. Ratifying it did not relinquish our sovereign right to declare war as provided in our Constitution.
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The UN Charter is a treaty and was entered into under the treaty power granted the federal government, otherwise there's no power to sign such a document. Further, since the treaty specifically precludes unilateral declarations of war against a member state with specific exceptions (which I stated above) the invasion of Iraq did in fact violate US law, which the UN Charter became when it was ratified.
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Even if we needed UN approval (which we do not)...Not only did Saddam violate the terms of the ceasefire in the first Gulf War, but the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483 essentially determined the Iraq War as a legal/legitimate war. If you are looking for a truly �illegal war� by the definition of the UN�look no farther than our (Clinton�s) war against Yugoslavia.
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Clinton's, and now George W. Bush's, war against Serbia was and is, in fact, a war crime. You conveniently overlooked the fact that Bush has continued to prosecute the war against the Serbs, why did you do that?
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Resolution 1483, written after the fact of the Bush'ist invasion of Iraq to deal with thee status quo two months later, did not declare the invasion legal, it authorized the US government to clean up the mess it created by the invasion, something else entirely. It's why the citizens of Iraq may kill US government soldiers, and any mercenaries they may hire, lawfully, and by any method they may devise.