Can’t actually rebut anything, can you?
Oh noes, now Moto is going to start another tearful thread.
My cite is the UN Charter which forbids any non-defensive assault on the sovereignty of another country. The UN Charter is a treaty ratified by Congress which means that the invasion of Iraq was illegal under both international and US law. Just because Bush hasn’t been indicted doesn’t mean that he didn’t violate the Charter.
Mebbe. Don’t really want to, though. Or more accurately, don’t wanna waste the time. Problem is, even if I were to rebut, the degree of your irrelevance would be unchanged.
Until someone attempts to indict President Bush, it is wishful thinking. Given the lack of action from his enemies, domestic and abroad, legally President Bush appears to have dotted his 't’s and crossed his 'i’s.
surely you’re not claiming “Unidicted = legal”?
No. It just means that the International Community doesn’t have the will to enforce the charter against the US and that a partisan Republican Congress will never enforce the Constitution against their chimpanzee overlord.
I’ve seen that argument a lot with regards to the invasion of Iraq. I’m not sure why anybody thinks it’s valid but I’ve seen it raised quite often. By that logic smoking pot is legal. I’ve smoked pot. I didn’t get indicted for it. Therefore smoking pot is legal. I also go over the speed limit sometimes without getting a ticket. Therefore speeding is legal.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think it’s actually illegal to smoke pot. Selling it, yes. Possessing it, yes. But *smoking * it? I’ve never heard of anyone convicted on that one.
**Diogenes **wants to turn this into a thread about Bush and the Iraq war. I see no reason to let him do that. There have been and continue to be plenty of threads on that subject.
This thread is about McKinney. If you don’t want to talk about McKinney, Dio, why don’t you just stay out? There’s an active thread about DeLay in the Pit, too, so I seen no reason to turn this into another one.
you’re wrong in my jurisdiction (MI), I’ve had clients convicted of that.
Are you retarded? No really, are you? Does your nurse know you are posting on the internet?
I wasn’t doing any such thing. I raised the Iraq war as part of a series of examples of a tu quoques as response to a thread that was itself a tu quoque. I was then asked for a cite that the invasion of Iraq was illegal and I provided one. It’s not my fault that the thread has gone in this direction. My original reference was pretty casual and part of a larger point.
Yeah, from other posts I figured there was a DeLay thread which I didn’t see which is being refferenced by the title of this one. My mistake.
I guessed that was what happened, eventually. 
They’re both hanging around the top of the forum now, although it figures that this one is getting much more attention than the original.
This thread isn’t a tu quoque. This item has been all over the news for a the last few days, and it’s a legitimate, deserving Pitting. Had Shodan posted about this in the Delay thread, it would’ve been a tu quoque.
But I agree that other posters are at least as much to blame for the hijack, which is why I’m suggesting we not go there. I think Unclebeer had it exactly right in refusing to respond.
noted here note odd spelling of marijuana. use includes smoking of it.
No, I’m saying that President Bush has lots of enemies who would like to hang him by his short and curlies; enemies with the means to mount such a challenge to his presidency. Perhaps they simply lack the will, or perhaps President Bush jumped through whatever hoops were necessary to prevent such an accusation. This isn’t a slam dunk, like OJ was (doh! :smack:). I’m certainly not going to argue the legal merits of either side of the case, because it would get into a level of minutiae far beyond my knowledge. It may, or it may not have, be an illegal war. IMNSHO, it’s an immoral one sold to the UN and the American people under false pretenses.
My apologies, John Mace. You are right. I should not have replied.
It’s ironic that this non-story thread is the only one you’ve posted in all day.