On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:25:51 GMT, Vince Brannigan > wrote:

>
>
>Stephen Harding wrote:
>
>> Vince Brannigan wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>> Stephen Harding wrote:
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>> >>
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>>>> You're a law guy Vince, on what grounds does any UN action
>>>> rest? Majority vote of a largely non-elected group of
>>>> world "representatives" (I use the term extremely loosely)?
>>>>
>>>> It's a house of cards! A mirage! An institution that I
>>>> once believed had value primarily in its humanitarian efforts.
>>>> I now wonder if even that much can be granted to the
>>>> organizaton.
>>>
>>>
>>> It's charter is the law of the land in the USA
>>
>>
>> Meaning UN authority is legally binding "law" in the USA?
>>
>> I'll agree the principles of the Charter are incorporated in
>> various form into the US Constitution (for the most part). But
>> the mechanism of UN action can hardly make those actions truly
>> binding on the US.
>>
>> If it can, we're wasting an awful lot of time and money on
>> Presidents and Congressional delegations.
>>
>
>US Constitution
>
>Article. VI.
>
>Clause 2: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which
>shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which
>shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the
>supreme Law of the Land;
>
>
>Got the idea?
>
>Vince

Gee, Vince, why don't you write a letter to the nice Osama guy and tell
him that he is in violation of the law, and would he please cease and
desist?? I am sure that he would gladly forgo violence once the great
"professor" told him to.

Al Minyard

"Paul J. Adam" > wrote:
>In message >,
>Chad Irby
> writes
>>In article >,
>> "Paul J. Adam" >
>wrote:
>>
>>> Bear in mind that al-Qaeda was vehemently
>opposed to Saddam's regime:
>>
>>A contention, while sounding interesting, that
>has never actually been
>>proven by any texts or quotes.
>
>What, bin-Laden's own fatwas don't count?
>
>>Meanwhile, we keep finding lots of indications
>that AQ *did* work in
>>Iraq with no official impediments.
>
>The only evidence I'm aware of to date was an
>*opposition* terrorist
>camp in Kurdish territory, outside Hussein's
>control and opposed to him:
>not exactly what I'd call decisive truth.
>
>--
>When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing
>to be polite.
>
> W S Churchill
>
>Paul J. Adam MainBox<at>jrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk
What about Zarqari getting medical care in Baghdad after getting run out
of Afghanistan? Iraqi providing help to an AQ agent on the run seems pretty
helpful to me.

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