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Noam
Chomsky |
"The potential disasters are among
the many reasons why decent human beings do not contemplate
the threat or use of violence, whether in personal life or international
affairs, unless reasons have been offered that have overwhelming
force. And surely nothing remotely like that justification has
come forward."
Noam Chomsky
March 13, 2003 |
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international
law |
"Bush
threatened war-crimes prosecution for Iraqi soldiers who followed
illegal orders, but failed to grasp that the war itself violates
international law, said
Philip Alston, a law professor at New York University and former
U.N. human rights official... It opens the door for every country
to take the law into its own hands and launch pre-emptive military
strikes without any universally binding restraints," Alston
said." AP,
March 22, 2003 |
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September 11 |
" The first reason, then, why public
authorities in the United States have urged the United
Nations to become serious about Iraq is the war preemptively
declared upon the United States on 09/11/01. It was obvious
from the beginning that nineteen graduate students from middle
class families (mostly in Saudi Arabia)
did not perform that deed unaided. They had the support of states
(Afghanistan in the first place, but also Yemen, Iran,
Sudan, and others) willing to act clandestinely but not openly,
as international outlaws." Michael
Novak, American Enterprise Institute, February 10, 2003 |
preemption