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An Essay by Stephen Neitzke, founder of the Direct Democracy League
The Bush-fascist's invasion orders (Special Forces into the back country months before the "decapitation" strike) violated the Constitution's promise that US soldiers will be sent to war only on the direct order of Congress. US military officers take their oath, not to be loyal to the president, or even to Congress, but only to the Constitution. Every one of them who participated in the execution of the invasion orders is guilty of oath violation and of 18 USC 241 violation.
Congress violated the "separation of powers" under the Constitution when they gave the war powers decision for Iraq to the Bush-fascist -- already, clearly, the illegitimate presidential usurper of the Constitution. Nowhere in the Constitution is any branch of government given the option of giving away a power specifically given to that branch in the Constitution. Nowhere in the Constitution is any branch except Congress given war powers.
Every member and senator in Congress who voted to give the Bush-fascist his very own war powers for Iraq is guilty of violating his/her oath to uphold the Constitution AND is a co-conspirator in the violation of 18 USC 241 -- violating the citizen rights of US soldiers to be sent to war ONLY on the expressed order of Congress. That's a total of 373 members and senators.
In 18 USC 241, it says that if death or maiming occurs as a result of the conspiratorial violation of citizen rights, then the co-conspirators can be sentenced to life imprisonment, or to death.
Those 373 Congressional representatives, the Bush-Cheney administration insiders and outsiders who participated in the execution of the Iraq invasion, and all involved military brass should be given a fair trial, convicted, and either imprisoned for life or put to death.
That's the law. It is, IMO, the only way in which we can honor our war dead.
BIG NOTE -- If the RAF medical officer wins his case, if he domonstrates in court that the invasion of Iraq was illegal under UK and international law, then we are one giant step closer to breaking the unconstitutional and illegal protection that blocks the prosecution of the US co-conspirators.
BTW, if any of you Republifascist lurkers think that I'm being libelous here, then you should read up on the ABSOLUTE PRIVILEGE defense inherent in the public discussion of judicial, legislative, executive, and other official actions, all of which are deemed to be in the public interest. You'll just have to wait a while, until the Bush-fascist and his despotism have figured out how to take those rights away from us -- somewhere over my dead body.
Live free or die.
Stephen Neitzke
Direct Democracy League
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To friendship,
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” – Thomas Mann
Michael
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