Maxwell’s suit seeks a ruling that the administration lacks legal authority to preemptively attack either Iran or Syria without a Congressional declaration of war, and that radioactive fallout from the use of nuclear weapons in any such attack would endanger people around the world, including herself.It always ticks me off when a Republican shows more courage than any Dem. Mary, if you're reading this, I'd have crossed party lines to vote for you...
Unfortunately, her gesture is probably in vain. It's too late.
Bush has already given the speech. You know: THE speech, the one he gave before the Iraq war. The one where he tells the soon-to-be-besieged populace (the Iraqis then, the Iranians now) that he just loves loves loves them -- he just has a problem with their leader. (Their elected leader, in the case of Iran.)You know what that means. Very soon, those fine and lovable Iranian people will find hunks of their skin flaking off after they've been exposed to fallout.
Contemplating the upcoming war makes me feel like Sam Elliot's character in Gettysburg: "I can see it so clearly, it's like it already happened." How the hell can we prevent what seems to be inevitable?
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Impeachment would seem to be the obvious answer. I am still mystified by how Congress gave up its authority to Bush to wage 'war' in Iraq AND Afghanistan. Also - can Bush be sued? I think not. Where would this suit lead?
To anonymous perhaps this may help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Liberation_Act.
Global General Strike. Now.
sofla said...
A body of SCOTUS precedents protect the presidency even from other co-equal branches' interferences, if the president insists on his way. The SCOTUS generally views such matters as disputes about the metaphysics of the separation of powers, in which it declines to take sides (as another such power itself).
The notion of a CITIZEN trying to even gain standing to bring a case against the presidency, let alone prevail, isn't plausible.
And, when it was tried, when a father of a dead soldier tried to sue Nixon over the undeclared (hence illegal, as is the argument in this case) war in Vietnam leading to his son's death (all of which was entirely true), the SCOTUS promulgated a very strong doctrine of sovereign immunity for the president acting in his official capacity.
Write your representatives, call everyone you know. Make a stand speak out, lets take to the streets. It's time for the killing to stop and we will have to make it stop. We have long feared a mad man having control of a nuclear weapon. Well, now one does. George Bush is insane and will kill all of us if we do not stop him and his neocon Nazis.
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