[kj] The war criminal Blair ?

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small 
crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the 
world we mean business."  - Michael Ledeen, National review ( a right 
wing USA publication) 
<http://article.nationalreview.com/267340/baghdad-delenda-est-part-two/jonah-goldberg>

Bush declared he was launching war vs. Iraq based on Iraq's violating UN 
sanctions (among any other thing he could think of). Yet the UN also 
does not give latitude for individual countries, from Senegal to the 
USA, to unilaterally decide for themselves when and where to enforce 
individual UN rules. That must be decided jointly.

The US and UK violated int'l law, laws and treaties to which thy were 
signatories. Period. No gray areas here. It's crystal clear. Crystal 
clear like 2+2=4.

In reality, the US (and the UK) have acted as if they were the sole 
actors responsible for enforcing violations, or whatever, as they 
please, at their caprice, other countries' permission be damned - via UN 
votes, or etc. The basis is: "The USA is an exceptional nation among all 
nations in the world with an exceptional privilege to enforce violations 
of law, or whatever it wants to, that no else has the right to do, 
other's otes, resolutions, tec., be damned."

Imagine if Iran had invaded Florida after the 2000 US elections for 
violating nt'l treaties about democratic principles. It sounds 
preposterous. but with the US and itslackeys in the West, it's just 
'common sense."

The justification for US war against Iraq, which has resulted in tens of 
thousands of real, actual human deaths -not just email chatter fodder, 
but actual humans with families - were predicated on specious, cynical, 
selective, false, and unconscionable reasoning - the sot of flimsy 
argumenttation that wouldnot be tolaretaed weree it to come from, say, 
Syria. Blair followed suit and was indeed Bush's lap dog.

-0liver