posted on September 24, 2005 10:49:22 AM new
They have no way to answer that....because even though they repeat it over and over...even they know it's just not true.
"Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." --Ann Coulter
And why the American Voters chose to RE-elect President Bush to four more years. YES!!!
posted on September 24, 2005 11:51:10 AM new
An illegal war is when a President/Leader tells its citizens another country has weapons of mass destruction pointed at you and are ready to use them, when they don't.
posted on September 24, 2005 04:50:03 PM new
Kraft, I don't think that makes it an 'illegal' war. When this first came about Iraq was the one playing games with the UN inspectors, not letting them in, not saying if they had WMD or not. Since the UN was not going to enforce a policy that should have been (going in and inspecting for WMD) then the President AND most of Congress agreed to the US's own inspection.
posted on September 27, 2005 11:42:58 PM new
Iraq broke the treaty that ended the 91 gulf war, by firing missiles in the no fly zone and not allowing U.N. Inspectors to complete their job.
posted on September 28, 2005 10:08:38 AM new
Under international law, this war is illegal. If you recognize international law, how would you justify calling a preemptive invasion of a sovereign nation "legal"? Under international law, regime change is not considered a legal basis for unilateral military action. This war wasn't waged to avert an overwhelming humanitarian catastrophe and it was not authorized by the UN Security Council.
posted on September 28, 2005 01:43:45 PM new
No, what he's being honest about is that a bunch of 3rd world dictators determining what is "illegal" is about as funny as something like the UN where a bunch of 3rd world dictators can get on the "Human Rights Committee" or whatever and offer to "investigate" "abuses" in the USA.
Only dim-witted, and I emphasize the dim-witted, liberals do not find this absolutely knee-slapping, hysterically funny
posted on September 28, 2005 02:06:32 PM new
I doubt that Ron needs a dumb squirrel to tell me what he is thinking. The international community does not consist of a bunch of 3rd world dictators.
posted on September 28, 2005 04:38:14 PM new
Squirrell, I've briefly identified the individuals on your list. Now, you can tell us how they are relevant to the topic.
Shi Jiuyong is President of the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations located in The Hague, Netherlands. He was elected to the ICJ on 6th February 1994, and became president nine years later.
President Shi was born in Zhejiang, China, on 9 October 1926 and went on to study law at the former St. John's University, Shanghai and at Columbia University. From 1956 to 1958, he held various teaching and fellowship positions at international affairs colleges and institutes around Beijing before becoming a professor of international law at the Foreign Affairs College, Beijing, in 1984.
Since the 1980s he has served as an international law representative of China through various important international conventions and treaties, including Sino-British negotiations on the status of Hong Kong. President Shi is also a former member and chairman of the International Law Commission. He has lectured on international law throughout China and the English-speaking world.
Raymond Ranjeva (born August 31, 1942 in Antananarivo, Madagascar), is currently Vice President of the International Court of Justice. He has been Vice President since 2003 and a Member of the Court since 1991, having won reelection in 2000. Prior to his election to the Court, he was a Professor of Law at the University of Madagascar from 1981 to 1991, the same university he earned a B.A. from in 1965.
Thomas Buergenthal grew up in the Jewish ghetto of Kielce (Poland), and later in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen. On December 4th 1951, he migrated from Germany to the USA. He studied at Bethany College in West Virginia (graduated 1957), and received his J.D. from the faculty of law at New York University in 1960, and his LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees in International law from the Harvard Law School.
Since 2000, Buergenthal has been a judge on the International Court of Justice at The Hague. Prior to this appointment, he was Lobingier Professor of International and Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at The George Washington University Law School, and has held numerous prestigious academic positions. He has served as a judge for many years, including lengthy periods on various special UN courts. Buergenthal is a specialist in International law and Human rights law.
Ronny Abraham (France)
The United Nations General Assembly today, meeting independently, but concurrently with the Security Council, elected eminent jurist Ronny Abraham of France to the International Court of Justice, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge and former President Gilbert Guillaume, as of 11 February.
Rosalyn Higgins (born in London, 1937) is a Judge on the International Court of Justice.
She has been a member of the Court since 12 July 1995, and was re-elected as from 6 February 2000. She studied at Cambridge (undergraduate and Master's degrees in Law) and Yale (doctorate). Staff Specialist in International Law, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1963- 1974; Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics, 1974-1978; Professor of International Law, University of Kent at Canterbury, 1978-1981; Professor of International Law in the University of London (London School of Economics), 1981-.
Mr. Abraham will serve for the remainder of his predecessor’s nine-year term, through 5 February 2009. Judge Guillaume was elected as a member of the Court as from 14 September 1987 and was re-elected as from 6 February 1991 and from 6 February 2000. The principal judicial organ of the United Nations, the International Court of Justice -- which sits in The Hague, Netherlands -- was set up to hear disputes between States and to issue non-binding advisory opinions on the legality of certain matters.
Pieter Hendrik Kooijmans (born July 6, 1933) is a Dutch diplomat. He has served as a Judge on the International Court of Justice since 1997.
From 1993 to 1994, he served as Foreign Minister of the Netherlands succeeding Hans van den Broek. From 1978 to 1992 and from 1995 to 1997, he served as a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Leiden. He served as a Lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law in 1976 and 1991. From 1973 to 1977, he served as State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. He served as a Professor of Public International Law and European Law at the Free University of Amsterdam from 1965 to 1973.
Hisashi Owada Owada Hisashi, born September 18, 1932) is a Judge on the International Court of Justice, former Japanese diplomat, and father of Crown Princess Masako.
Hisashi Owada was born in Niigata, Japan. After earning a B.A. from the University of Tokyo in 1955, he attended the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom where he earned a law degree in 1956. Upon completion of his education, he returned to Japan and entered the country's Foreign Service in 1955 serving in various posts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo and Japan's embassies in Russia and the United States, the United Nations, and the OECD. From 1976 to 1978, he served as Private Secretary to Takeo Fukuda, the Prime Minister of Japan. He served as Japanese Ambassador to the OECD from 1988 to 1989 before returning to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he served as Deputy Minister until his promotion to Vice-Minister in 1991 serving until 1993. From 1994 to 1998, he served as Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations, where he served until his appointment to the International Court of Justice in 2003.
In addition to his Foreign Service career, Owada has also served as a law professor for three decades at the University of Tokyo, Harvard Law School, New York University Law School, Columbia Law School, the Hague Academy of International Law, Waseda University, and the University of Cambridge.
In 1993, his daughter, Masako Owada, a diplomat in her own right, married Crown Prince Naruhito, the heir to the Japanese Chrysanthemum throne.
Gonzalo Parra Aranguren is a judge at the International Court of Justice of the United Nations in The Hague, Netherlands. He was born in Venezuela and is married to Mrs. María Trinidad Pulido Santana.
Francisco Rezek (born January 18, 1944) is a Brazilian judge and a Member of the International Court of Justice based in The Hague, Netherlands. He gained an LL.B and D.E.S from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte) and practised as a lawyer for a few years. He then obtained his PhD from l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne in the 1970's. He followed his academic career also studied earning a Diploma in Law at the University of Oxford (1979) and undertaking extension courses and research programmes at Harvard University (1965) and at the Hague Academy of International Law (1968).
He was a Professor of International Law and Constitutional Law at the University of Brasilia from 1971 to 1997 and later became Chairman of the Department of Law, serving from 1974 to 1976 and Dean of the Faculty of Social Studies from 1978 to 1979. He moved to Rio de Janeiro and held Professorships of International Law at Rio Branco Institute (the official diplomatic school of Brazil) from 1976 to 1997. Rezek was also a Lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law in 1986 and at the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1989.
Rezek is also President of several conferences, lecturer and an examiner in contests for professorships in the major Brazilian universities (since 1971). He became Attorney of the Republic before the Supreme Court of Brazil in 1972; and Deputy Attorney-General of the Republic from 1979 to 1983. He then became Justice of the Supreme Court of Brazil, appointed by the President with approval of the Senate in March, 1983, at the age of 39. He resigned in March 1990 and was appointed again in April, 1992 for life, but retired in 1997.
He was Foreign Minister of Brazil from March 1990 to April 1992 and has been a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration since 1987.
Bruno Simma (born March 29, 1941), German jurist, He is currently a Judge on the International Court of Justice, having been appointed to that post in 2003. Prior to joining the Court, he had served on the United Nations International Law Commission since 1996. From 1995 to 1997, he served as Dean of the University of Munich Faculty of Law. Prior to returning to his native Germany, he served as a Lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands, where he also served as Sirector of Studies in 1976 and 1982, and as Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School during 1995. From 1987 to 1996, he served as a Member of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. From 1987 to 1992, he served as a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and as a Visiting Professor in 1986. From 1984 to 1985, he served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Siena in Italy. He served as a Lecturer for International Law for the German Federal Foreign Ministry's Training Centre for Junior Diplomats.
Peter Tomka (born June 1, 1956), is a Slovakian diplomat and has served as a Judge on the International Court of Justice since 2003. Prior to joing the Court, he served as Slovakian Ambassador to the United Nations from 1999 to 2003. In 1988, he graduated from the Hague Academy of International Law. He was born in present-day Bansa Bystrica, Slovakia, and attended Charles University of Prague.
posted on September 28, 2005 05:25:24 PM new
Why Helen I realize YOU believe a Chinese or Jordanian "judge" should rule on America violating someone's rights, etc because they wrote a book or taught somewhere, but you're a twit.
Olympic judges write books too, doesn't prevent the Olympics from frequently becoming a joke.
posted on September 28, 2005 06:08:34 PM new
In comparison to those distinguished judges George Bush and his representative John Bolton are "twits". Of course it goes without saying that you are just a dumb squirrel who should have taken my advice and headed for the trees.
posted on September 28, 2005 08:55:43 PM new
I love watching desquirrel win a debate with helen.....I can always tell when she's losing....she changes the subject and starts with making it personal rather than sticking to the discussion.....LOL
Keep up with pointing out the truth of the situations to helen, desquirrel, you put her to shame.
"Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." --Ann Coulter
And why the American Voters chose to RE-elect President Bush to four more years. YES!!!
posted on September 28, 2005 11:12:50 PM new
That's because you also find it amusing when these clowns talk about the "World Court" and how awful the US is because it won't let the Honorable and esteemed members from Red China, Jordan, Russia, Syria, et al hear testimony and put to trial "human rights abuses" or whatever, alleged against its armed forces or citizens.
posted on September 29, 2005 05:48:43 AM new
So, duhsquirrel and linda find distinguished judges of foreign countries unworthy of making a fair decision on human rights abuses or illegal war. These two wingnuts would prefer to have the Bush administration hold themselves unaccountable to the citizens of this country and unaccountable to the world while they continue to carry on their brutal foreign policy.
posted on September 29, 2005 08:31:45 AM new
Now you're FINALLY getting it Helen. I'd rather be presided over by the municipal court judge of E. Flat Lizard Nevada than the head of the Syrian Supreme Court.
posted on September 30, 2005 02:21:26 PM new
Isn't Helen the one that's up in arms when someone isn't nice to the Liberal Left?
Isn't she the one always b*tching about the name calling?
"I doubt that Ron needs a dumb squirrel to tell me what he is thinking. The international community does not consist of a bunch of 3rd world dictators."
"Of course it goes without saying that you are just a dumb squirrel who should have taken my advice and headed for the trees."
"So, duhsquirrel and linda find distinguished judges of foreign countries unworthy of making a fair decision on human rights abuses or illegal war. These two wingnuts would prefer to have the Bush administration hold themselves unaccountable to the citizens of this country and unaccountable to the world while they continue to carry on their brutal foreign policy."
Helen, I'm bestowing upon you the designation of QAC. Yes the “Q” is for Queen, and I just realized the QAC could be pronounced quack, which makes it even better.
Amen,
Reverend Colin
http://www.reverendcolin.com
