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In reply to the discussion: What is the reason the GLBT Community doesn't support Bradley Manning? [View all]AnalystInParadise
(1,832 posts)and while my heart agrees with you, my head and my brain cannot. If illegal, then why hasn't the UN brought it up, Kofi Annan made a statement in 2004 saying in his viewpoint the war is illegal, however in reality the UN Security Council, as outlined in Article 39 of the UN Charter, has the ability to rule on the legality of the war, but has yet not been asked by any UN member nation to do so. No nation has asked the UN to rule on the legality of the Iraq war. My brain tells me because they know it is not an illegal act, might be an immoral one, but not an illegal one. Secondly, Bush was clever enough to get the support of large bipartisan majorities, and have the US Congress pass the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002. This covered his back side domestically. Again much like Cortes used the law to his advantage in his dealing with the Aztecs in 1519, this was very much a legal war. The fucked up part is, they made a situation i believe in my heart to be illegal, legal by twisting the law.