Did President George Bush violate International law by attacking Iraq when it was not a threat to us?

Question

Legal experts and Academics say he did - what say you?

Answer 1

Media Refuses to Report this Basic Fact: Attacking Iraq Violates International Law

Answer 2

When A sitting president doesn't know the price of gas per gallon, and his families riches came from oil and gas than he is the Liar that set the standard for lying. He left office and really hasn't been seen but the bushes will go down In history like the kennedys George bush one or two cared nothing more than making sure generations of the bush blood line would be finacially secure (hence) being born with silver spoon in your mouth thanks to the bushes.

Answer 3

Saddam violated international law by refusing weapons inspections and violating his no fly zones.

International law was not being enforced on Iraq. You could say Bush enforced it. You could also say he violated it.

Everyone knows that no agency exists to enforce international law. There was no place the US and Iraq could go that would both render and enforce a verdict. Because international law has no "teeth", its enforcement is ad-hoc, taken on by nations or groups of nations on behalf of the most eggregious violations. But to enforce it, you violate it!

I guess you must look at the nations themselves and decide who is acting more like a cop and who is acting more like a criminal.

Answer 4

President Bush did not attack Iraq, UN allies did.(WITH congess' approval) They were following international law when they did so.
Hussain had jacked the intenational community around long enough. Now it seems the liberal media is hand in hand with our enemies to sway the American public opinion of what should be done just like in Viet Nam.
The stakes there are HUGE. If the terrorists win, our way of life is doomed.

Answer 5

I say he did because Iraq did not attack us and was no threat to do so. There was also the fact that Iraq was in compliance with the UN on WMD's. The "reason" we went in to begin with (if there had been any we would have been hit by now.)

The real reason he went after Hussein was to kill him . It was and remains a blood feud between the Bush's and Hussein. Hussein tried to kill Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. wanted revenge for it.

Answer 6

Sort of, but it shows that International Law doesn't mean very much. There is no enforcement.

International law is based on treaties and agreements. If you break such a treaty or law, the only punishment is bad will from other countries.

So the answer is, yes, he probably did, but he knew it didn't matter because nobody would do anything about it.

Answer 7

Yes.

However, had we invaded Afghanistan when I thought we should have - which was in SPRING 2001, long pre-9/11 - the same question would have been applicable, and I would have been the guilty one.

But Iraq is Bush's bad... Dick Cheney's bad, actually.

Answer 8

Well, if he did break the law, time will tell. He will be impeached. I don't see those proceedings happening now, but if the Dem's take over the Legislature, we may see them try to prosecute him. I personally don't think they'll get him, because too many democrats voted for the war.

Answer 9

No, not since Sadam violated the UN from the first gulf war when he didn't disarm after "losing". Interesting though since we never found anything. Still unclear to me why he didn't let inspectors in and save himself???

Answer 10

I think he did it there, and in Afghanistan - do you think anything will ever happen to him as a result? War Crimes Tribunal? Probably not. The world, for all it's big words and threats, is affraid of the U.S.