LunarRay
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Originally posted by: Harvey
Originally posted by: OCguy
Originally posted by: LunarRay
Sorry, but you have to examine the UN Charter. Enforcement of the no fly zone does not allow an invasion. It simply allows the parties to enforce the zone and shoot down the aircraft.
We tried to get a resolution to invade but we were turned down... We invaded on the Defensive aspect of the Charter as we so stated to the UN and International Community... We really did do that.
The US cannot invade a Sovereign nation with out UN Resolution to do that. It must be explicit, as the UN said!
Aside from the Prima Facie evidence we also have the Res Ipsa Loquitur maxim. They are not the same and give the US a hard rock against which it sits in defense of the invasion.
Edit: For edification: "The difference between the two is that prima facie is a term meaning there is enough evidence for there to be a case to answer. Res ipsa loquitur means that because the facts are so obvious, a party need explain no more."
Huh? Our jets were being fired on.
Please tell us how that justified anything other than returning fire and taking out any ground based weapons that fired on them... which is what happened.
It STILL did not justify the invasion under the U.N. mandate. And it STILL wasn't among the myriad LIES spewed by your thankfully EX-Traitor In Chief and his criminal cabal. :|
I think the 'War Powers Act Resolution' Bush gave to Congress in Oct. '02, was crammed with some very creative language based on what Bush said was credible evidence. We now know it to be untrue. But Bush can argue that 'They' made a mistake or like that. It is obvious that he accepted what suited his purpose and tossed any hint of intel that pointed away from it... That bit of craft makes the mind spin. How could he have done what he did and be able to look us in the eye and say anything.
Edit: IF Obama said anything like that today I think all eyes would be focused on the evidence. Obama would not have 9/11 fears to ride on. Bush did and it is why he got away with it. (then)