Comments: Does Bush Have a “Gulf of Tonkin” Problem?

Expecting Bush to respect the law is like expecting him to tell the truth. Forget it.

All he has to do is mouth the boiler plate in the resolutions, even if not true.

Who is going to prosecute him, anyway. The UNSC could have easily passed an alternative resolution that called for inspections and no war, but were too cowed to do even that.

A reasonable reading of 1441 requires a second resolution for use of force. Bush not only did not get it, but he also killed a vote that would have rejected it. So, we all know he is acting in defiance on the UN to enforce the UN's resolutions. In other words, he's a lawless thug. If Saddam did what he is doing, we would haul him into war crimes trial.

Posted by sxs at March 19, 2003 10:17 PM

First day of Spring 2003-
America starts an illegal war, a pre-emptive war against a country that has not attacked it...
"a day that will live in infamy"...
who's to say different???

Posted by John B. at March 20, 2003 05:31 AM

What would people do if they were to discover that both Bushies, father and son, were soley behind the war on Iraq? (Everyone remembers "Desert Storm", right?) Also, why can not the current "Con-man-der in (thievery)" be tried for crimes against humanity? The US government is so eager to see leaders of (usually) third-world stand trial for war atrocities, but when the US government is cited for those things, it's hands off the USA. Why is that? And what can be done to change it?

Posted by Ngozi Cole at September 18, 2003 04:45 PM