John Samford,
“Wishful thinking (not to mention advocating war crimes).
but bombing them back to the stone age would be stupid, not to mention immoral and illegal.”
Evidence please! Bombing IS NOT a WAR CRIME.
Show me the statue. Show me the treaty that the USA is party to that says bombing is illegal.
You can’t because there is no such thing. Maybe in your mind, but I’m talking the real world, NOT planet Obama.
Bombing certain types of building violates the GCIV, UNLESS IT IS A MILITARY NECESSITY.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Human_Rights/geneva1.html
There is the URL to the GCIV. Note that the USA is NOT a party to the ’79 version (GCV). It was not ratified by Congress nor signed by the President. So it doesn’t apply to the USA. A lot of Europeans don’t understand that.
The USA isn’t a party to the Rome treaty either. As a sovereign nation, the USA cannot be forced to follow a treaty it isn’t a party to.
So there is nothing illegal about making war on Iran. Period.
US Legislation gives the President 60 days to conduct military operation before the administration has to make a report. Then Congress has 30 days to respond to that report and either authorize the military action or ASK that the combat stop.
None of that has been tested in court yet, so it is pretty much unknown what would really happen.
I suspect that President Bush would time it so that Congress would have to explain to the voters why they wanted Iran to have nuclear weapons (you got some ‘splainen to do Lucy). Then after the voters tossed them out on their fat theivin’ backsides, the military action would go on.
If not, a civil war isn’t beyond the realm of possibility. That would get the troops home.
There is huge disconnect between the bi-coastals and fly over America. Two different countries actually. When is the last time your air raid siren went off? If it gets down to shootin, Fly over America will win. We grow ALL your food.
If you think this is impossible, fire up the way back machine for a short hop back to November of 2000, when algore tried to steal the Presidency.
Remember when a bunch of Democrats were counting chads and some citizens were looking over their shoulder to make sure the count was ‘right’. The head Democrat asked them to leave and they said ‘no’. Then he asked the cop standing there to make them leave and he said “‘ell no”. There is a message there is you choose to decipher it. America was within minutes of having a civil war in 2000. Another Diebold election or any more fun and games out of the dems and there will be an explosion. If the left wants to ignore the rules, then the right will also.
