Re: Benghazi...oh you knew it was coming
The US is a signatory to the UN charter. The US acted against the wishes of the Security Council and the vast majority of the world's countries in invading Iraq. America had no legal sanction to invade. How the UN defines whether acts of aggression are OK or not is up to them.
The UN charter isn't binding international law nor does it define what legal war is and if world history shows us anything, sanction or no sanction, nations do what they want. You can call the Iraq war unnecessary, immoral, stupid etc and I'll generally agree with you but if at the end of the day it is all whether or not you won a popularity contest that decides if it is "legal" then we should agree that isn't how the "law" works. I'll pose to you the same thing I did to Miles: provide me the codified document that spells out for the entire world what makes the use of military operations legal and the legal body that rules on them and I will concede and sincerely apologize. The only court I'm aware of that rules on "crimes of aggression" is the International Criminal Court and its jurisdiction is only for crimes committed in the territory of a state party or if they are committed by a national of a state party. So they have jurisdiction over 100 or so nations (the US isn't a state party) on this topic but not the whole world.
Most bad government has grown out of too much government. Thomas Jefferson
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