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Originally posted by Mulhollanddose
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.
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I was stating what the law is, M-dose. That has nothing whatsoever to do with my position on the UN.
Let me be clear about that for the second time.
It is my desire to see the UN removed from American soil, the association of the US government with the UN completely ended, the buildings housing the UN in New York and elsewhere in America bulldozed, and salt sown on the ground so that nothing will grow there for a long time.
I don't know how to make that more clear to you. If you're not a dolt, you'll get it this time.
However, that isn't the case today. The US government signed a treaty in joining the UN that stipulates that one member nation may not invade another member nation without certain express events having taken place. Iraq did not meet any of those stipulations, so the invasion violated the treaty signed by the US government, and that makes it a violation of US law. That's what the Constitiution says about treaties, no matter how much you may wish that it did not. That's why the federal government shouldn't be allowed to enter into treaties without a unanimous vote by the Senate. A treaty becomes law governing the federal government. The federal government must be held to obey the law at all times.
Last, I'd have no problem removing the treaty capability from the Constitution altogether, we don't need government agreements to do business with other people that happen to live outside the fifty states.