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We hold these Truths to be self-evident...
All the lawyers in the UK’s Foreign Affairs Department concluded the
US/UK invasion of Iraq was an unlawful War of Aggression. Their expert
advice is the most qualified to make that legal determination; all 27 of them were in agreement. This powerful judgment of unlawful war follows the Dutch government’s recent unanimous report and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s clear statements.
All 27 UK Foreign Affairs lawyers: Iraq war unlawful. Obama, politicians, US media: no response
We hold these Truths to be self-evident...
This stunning information was disclosed at the UK Chilcot inquiry by the testimony of Foreign Affairs leading legal advisor, Sir Michael Wood,
who added that the reply from Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office to his
legal department’s professional work was chastisement for putting their
unanimous legal opinion in writing.
Sir Michael testified
that Foreign Secretary Jack Straw preferred to take the legal position
that the laws governing war were vague and open to broad interpretation:
"He took the view that I was being very dogmatic and that international
law was pretty vague and that he wasn't used to people taking such a
firm position.”
Mr. Straw’s opinion is an Orwellian lie of the crystal-clear letter and spirit of the UN Charter that outlawed wars of choice
in 1945. The UN Charter forbids all use of force except when explicitly
authorized by the UN Security Council, or in a narrow definition of
self-defense upon an armed attack by another nation’s government. This
is arguably the single most important and clear law on the planet, the
victory of the generation who sacrificed during World War 2, and damning
criminal testimony for anyone in government to claim that this law is
vague.
Violation of the laws to prevent war, a
War of Aggression and a Crime Against Peace, are also arguably to worst
crime a nation can commit.
UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith
testified he "changed his mind" against the unanimous legal opinion of
all 27 of the Foreign Office attornies to agree with the US legal
argument that UN Security Council Resolution 1441 authorized use of force at the discretion of any nation’s choice. This
testimony is also criminally damning: arguing that an individual nation
has the right to choose war violates the purpose, letter and spirit of
the UN Charter, as well as violates 1441 that reaffirms jurisdiction of
the Security Council in governance of the issue. This Orwellian argument
contradicts the express purpose of the Charter to prevent
individual nations from engaging in wars. A two-minute video of his
mincing testimony is below as he pretends that war is still a lawful
foreign policy option.
Moreover, the US and UK “legal
argument” is in further Orwellian opposition to their UN Ambassadors’
statements when 1441 was passed that this did not authorize any use of force:
John Negroponte, US Ambassador to the UN:
[T]his resolution contains no "hidden triggers" and no "automaticity" with respect to the use of force. If there is a further Iraqi breach, reported to the Council by UNMOVIC, the IAEA or a Member State, the matter will return to the Council for discussions as required in paragraph 12.
Sir Jeremy Greenstock, UK Ambassador to the UN:
We heard loud and clear during the negotiations the concerns about "automaticity" and "hidden triggers" -- the concern that on a decision so crucial we should not rush into military action; that on a decision so crucial any Iraqi violations should be discussed by the Council. Let me be equally clear in response... There is no "automaticity" in this resolution. If there is a further Iraqi breach of its disarmament obligations, the matter will return to the Council for discussion as required in paragraph 12.
The Chilcot inquiry was initiated from
public outrage against UK participation in the Iraq War, with public
opinion having to engage a second time to force hearings to become public
rather than closed and secret. The hearings were not authorized to
consider criminal charges, which is the next battle for UK public
opinion.
Concentrated US corporate media
will not report the Chilcot inquiry “emperor has no clothes” facts and
conclusion that the current US wars are unlawful. The US Senate Church
Committee revealed CIA infiltration of US corporate media to disinform the American public to support US political agendas.
The cost of these unlawful wars
is over a million Iraqi lives above those expected to have died in
pre-war conditions and $3-$5 TRILLION in long-term US taxpayer costs
(that's $30,000 to $50,000 per average US household of $50,000 annual
income; do the math to figure your family's share).
US Senate and House Committee
investigation has shown through all disclosed evidence that all of the
justifications for war with Iraq were known to be lies at the time they were presented
to the public. You are an irresponsible citizen if you do not verify
these easily-understood facts from the disclosed evidence. A colluding
corporate media for unlawful wars is a lame excuse for inaction when the
facts are in front of you now.
Following the revealing testimony of the UK Attorney General is a 6-minute video from PuppetGov on comparable US lies for war with Iraq (warning, some strong language at the end of the video).
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Local perspective:
Part of my professional duties as a teacher of economics and government
is to produce competent adult citizenry. This includes realization that
our nation’s policies and money are managed at a broad community level,
and these issues have tremendous local impact. Of course, we all want
human beings to be individually successful and enjoy their unique,
beautiful and powerful self-expressions. Concurrently, we recognize our
commitment to local success is strongly dependent upon the success of
the community, and that government policy and economics are drivers.
Our status in early 21st
Century human history is that we suffer from a long history in
government and money of human interrelationship well-described as vicious antagonism. Governments frequently use war as a foreign policy, despite its illegality
and dependent upon public ignorance, with horrific consequences.
Economic policy is still created within a “Robber Baron” paradigm to
concentrate money to an elite few families. For example:
- National taxes effect you dearly, especially the tax to pay interest on the national debt. This costs the American public over $400 billion every year. This is $4,000 per year for every $50,000 of income. Do the math to understand your household’s tax burden for a monetary policy invented by banks for banks to create our money supply as debt. Your competence in this area contributes to our collective voice to simply shift monetary policy to easily pay the national debt, enjoy full employment, collectively save us over a trillion dollars every year, and finally realize what our brightest American minds have been advocating for centuries beginning with Benjamin Franklin. This would have unprecedented local benefits, and requires collective power to accomplish.
- Ending poverty everywhere on our planet would cost just 0.7% of our income and save a million children’s lives every month. This human accomplishment will cause unimaginable joy at our local level.
To consider:
"If
we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical
rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world
perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone and
as long as we try, the more we are going to have war in the world. Now
the judgment of God is upon us and we must either learn to live together
as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools."
--Inscription on Dr. Martin Luther King’s statue, Moorehouse College, Atlanta
"The
day that hunger is eradicated from the earth, there will be the
greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot
imagine the joy that will burst into the world on the day of that great
revolution." -- poet Federico García Lorca
I
appreciate your attention to these facts and encourage your further
study and action consistent with your own self-expression. My
recommendations:
Policy response: Gandhi and Martin Luther King advocated public understanding of the facts and non-cooperation with evil. I’m among hundreds who advocate:
- Understand the laws of war. These were legislated after WW2 and are crystal-clear that only self-defense, in a narrow legal meaning, can justify war. The current US wars are not even close to being lawful. Those involved with US military, government, and law enforcement have an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution, not “always place the mission first.” To fulfill their oath they must immediately refuse and end all orders associated with unlawful wars and military-related constant violation of treaties.
- End the transfer of trillions of American taxpayer money to banksters and admitted as “lost” by our military. End poverty through global cooperation to achieve the UN Millennium Goals by developed countries investing 0.7% of their income. Support global security through cooperation, dignity, justice, and freedom. Create a US Department of Peace to help.
- Communicate. Trust your unique, beautiful, and powerful self-expression to share as you feel appropriate. Understand that while many people are ready to embrace difficult facts, many are not. Anticipate that you will be attacked and prepare your virtuous response in the spirit of competition, just as you do in other fields.
- Prosecute the war leaders for obvious violation of the letter and spirit of US war laws. Because the crimes are so broad and deep, I recommend Truth and Reconciliation (T&R) to exchange full truth and return of stolen US assets for non-prosecution. This is the most expeditious way to understand and end all unlawful and harmful acts. Those who reject T&R are subject to prosecution.
Comments policy: I welcome questions and comments that are civil and pertain to the article topic. Impolite and impertinent comments will be deleted.
Please consider that I’m among hundreds of writers who have documented our own government’s disclosure of propaganda programs to support their wars.
I suspect my articles are under such propagandistic attack from
comments that use typical rhetorical fallacies to distract readers from
the facts. I invite readers to sharpen their ability to discern such
propaganda. They are characterized by a combination of: never addressing
the facts, diverting attention through unsubstantiated belief in an
alleged expert, irrelevant data, straw-man attack that distorts the
facts, ad hominem attack of insults to the messenger, vile comments to repulse readers, and lies of omission and commission.
I will use such comments to point-out the propaganda or delete them at my discretion. Again, all relevant and polite questions, and factually accurate comments are welcome.
As a professional educator I’m in agreement with my experience and
research: we learn best from multiple perspectives in mutual commitment
to understand the facts, see those facts from diverse points-of-view,
and consider various policy proposals of what we should do.
For
those involved in support of US government-sponsored disinformation, I
invite you to consider the quality of human relationships you wish to
work toward. National security and a brighter future is not a function
of fear, manipulation, and control. Our best security follows
cooperation, justice under the law, dignity, and freedom. Working for
your best imagined self-expression of virtue may include a unique
contribution from the inside of your agency. Public attraction to the
stories of Star Wars and the Harry Potter books/movies recognize that
our society’s jump to civilized relations for all of us might require
support from people within the “dark side” acting as covert agents for
building a brighter future. Another option is becoming a whistle-blower;
Project Camelot is a popular venue for people in sensitive positions. Ultimately, I recommend a Truth and Reconciliation
process to exchange full truth for no prosecution, explained in detail
at the link. Please consider the wisdom of your own “Scrooge conversion”
to act for the benefit of all humanity rather than your self-proclaimed
controlling, manipulating, and loveless “masters.”
“Scrooge
was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to
Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a
friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew,
or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.
Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh,
and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing
ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have
their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these
would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should
wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive
forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.”
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