As the U.S. mainstream media hails President Trump’s missile strike on Syria, there has been almost no attention to either the truth about its justification or the myriad of laws violated in its execution, writes Marjorie CohnSee you in the dock.
Consortium News
Trump’s Syria Attack Trampled Many Laws
Marjorie Cohn | professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, and a member of the advisory board of Veterans for Peace
In the Pentagon briefing this afternoon, it was claimed that 56 of the 59 TLAM's hit their target. This contradicts what the Saker said yesterday on his blog -- that less than half hit their target.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, it's just something to behold how the American mainstream media is just lapping up every assertion that the Pentagon/WH dishes out without asking for any evidence to back up said assertions. What dopes!
The details are classified....
ReplyDeleteOf course everyone knows that unverifiable claims with classified supporting evidence are always true!
ReplyDeleteFunny how BO's attacks on various countries were never called out as illegal.
ReplyDeleteArticle 1, Section 8, Clause 11 of US Constitution says Congress shall have power "To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal..."
ReplyDeleteActually AG Eric Holder told Obama that waging war on Libya was illegal without an Act of Congress. Obama stiff-armed him and did it anyway. At that point, Holder's duty was to resign. That he did not is contemptible.
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