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On the legal front, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have few bigger enemies than Marjorie Cohn, a professor at San Diego’s Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
Cohn, president of the liberal National Lawyers Guild, is a leading voice demanding that members of the Bush Administration be prosecuted for war crimes. She also condemns the Afghanistan and Iraq wars as illegal under international law, which she says the United States (Yes, incomplete sentence by the reporter). It’s a debate that hinges on whether the wars were launched in self defense.
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Good. We need many more Americans willing to state, plainly and simply, that the U.S. Constitution, and U.S. treaty and criminal law, mean exactly what they say — and to act accordingly.
Congress, President Obama, Attorney General Holder: this means you.
Thanks u. Recommended.
It appears that the army could not prove the Iraq ‘war’ is legal.
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“First Lt. Ehren Watada will be granted a discharge Oct. 2, “under other than honorable conditions,” attorney Kenneth Kagan said.
Fort Lewis spokesman Joseph Piek wouldn’t confirm Watada’s type of discharge, citing privacy rules. But he said late Friday that Watada’s manner of resignation is described in Army regulations as “resignation for the good of the service in lieu of general court martial.”
Watada, 31, refused to deploy to Iraq with his Fort Lewis, Wash.-based unit in 2006, arguing the war is illegal and that he would be a party to war crimes if he served in Iraq. “
http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=8678331
Once elected politicians do as they please.