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World News See other World News Articles Title: TRUMP SUED BY WATCHDOG TO DISCOVER “LEGAL” REASONS FOR HIS ATTACK ON SYRIA Sypers... United to Protect Democracy (UPD) is an advocacy group whose introductory web page describes it as a “nonpartisan nonprofit” organization established to hold the President of the United States accountable “to the laws and longstanding practices that have protected our democracy through both Democratic and Republican Administrations”. Like other organizations around the world, it sees its overall purpose as one guarding against authoritarianism and tyranny. The governing board of UPD is made up of former Obama Administration attorneys led by legal director, Justin Florence. They have just filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration demanding he cough up all e-mails, memoranda, advisory opinions and/or anything which could be viewed as legal argumentation justifying the April 7, 2017 attack on the Syrian Airbase at Al-Shu’ayraat southeast of Homs City. These suits are normally filed after legal requests are made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) which are rejected or ignored. We are assuming from Mr. Trumps pattern of behavior that the requests were ignored. The background to this legal brouhaha is an event which took place in the Alqaeda-controlled town of Khaan Shaykhoon in Idlib Province, Syria. It was alleged, almost uniformly by compromised Western media, that the Syrian Air Force used Sarin gas (or something similar) indiscriminately killing over 80 civilians. Without even a scintilla of evidence from objective sources, the Western propaganda organs like the BBC, CNN, NBC, inter alia, attempted to whip up a frenzied reaction in the streets of Washington D.C., London, Paris and Berlin to ignite some punishing reaction to President Assad’s encroachment over the red line which former president Obama drew in one famous statement to the Press. The airbase was selected because of some unexplained method by which either the CIA or Pentagon determined that the Sarin gas loaded on Syrian bombers came from Al-Shu’ayraat. Let’s forget that the base was primarily a repair-replace facility. Let’s forget that 59 Tomahawk missiles were launched on the base and that only 23 made it to their target. And let’s forget what the target might have been because the only damage done was to one hangar and 6 inoperable MiG23s. In a post we published on SyrPer, we exposed the nonsensical nature of the charges against the Syrian government. You remember the side-splitting scene of a man smoking a cigarette as masked “White Helmet” terrorists fiddled at the spot of the Sarin gas attack completely indifferent to the fact that Sarin gas is not dispelled by cigarette smoke. And you also remember the man holding his two fake dead babies and who turned out to be a member of Alqaeda. The United States Senate ratified the United Nations Charter on July 28, 1945 thus making the charter law in this country. Its provisions have the same force as any statute and binds the U.S. to the obligations and duties spelled out in the body of the document. The U.N. Charter defines exactly when a country may use force against another. In Article 2 section 4, it provides that all states shall refrain from the threat of force or the use of force against another member state. And if the state has an argument to use force it must take the matter to the Security Council in accordance with Chapter VII’s requirements. Since Mr. Trump decided to use force 3 days after the incident at Khaan Shaykhoon, without consulting the Security Council, he was in violation of both American and international law. On this issue, it is a no-brainer. But, Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution of the United States gives the sitting president the power to engage in hostile action only with the consent of Congress. He declined to seek Congress’ approval, unlike former President Obama’s blink in 2013 when the lies about Syrian Army use of CW were spreading in the MSM and poor Mr. Obama simply had no proof and could not bypass a Russian veto. So, he took the matter to Congress who rejected the use of force against Syria. At least his conduct was legal. The U.S. Constitution is further buttressed by the War Powers Resolution passed on November 7, 1973 when an American population and Congress, aggrieved by a war in Vietnam’s jungles, sought to put limits on a president’s ability to send troops into war unilaterally. President Nixon tried to veto the legislation unsuccessfully. This is usually referred to as the “War Powers Act”. 50 U.S.C. Chapter 33. “The President in every possible instance shall consult with Congress before introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, and after every such introduction shall consult regularly with the Congress until United States Armed Forces are no longer engaged in hostilities or have been removed from such situations.” Since the President could not argue that Syria’s alleged action threatened the United States in accordance with Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, he would be hard pressed to find any justification for his criminal act against Syria. And, given the fact he took military action without even a fig leaf of legality, it would seem this president is on the slow lane to impeachment. The lawsuit filed by UPD only seeks the divulgence of any articulated legal reason for Trump’s inane and possibly unlawful aggression against Damascus. Given what we know about Trump’s style of shooting from the hip, it is very unlikely there will be any academically valid articulation of his ill-advised foray into Syria. And, you know, there is a third argument which is not being brought up sufficiently. Mr. Trump fired 59 Tomahawks at the airbase in Syria. That cost the U.S. an estimated $100,000,000 dollars in order to inflict damage to the Syrian military in the amount of $2,000,000. This president claims to be an economical Wunderkind of sorts. Well, do the figuring. Poster Comment: Anonymous... The illegal action by Trump can be used at a convenient time in the future to impeach him. I guess the threat of that could be used to keep on the straight-and-narrow path to war mandated by his owners/handlers. AntiJihadist... A couple of comments on recent events: – A big thing that went unnoticed was the election of Moon Jae-In in South Korea. This is most definitely pour cold water on the plans of the Neocon imperialists on the Korean Peninsula, and we can expect things to cool down in the fabricated North Korean “crisis”. This guy’s parents are North Korean refugees and he favours talking with Kim and closer cooperation with China, and even dismantling THAAD. Which is why the US rushed to deploy THAAD before this election. He won in a landslide, which means South Korean people don’t want the American stupidity to continue. American Neocons just got slapped in other words, big time, by their “ally” South Korea. – The US is facing internal problems with James Comey being sacked. I’m not following this story that much, but the conclusion is obvious – it will hamper a “United” States from functioning properly as the Democrats an Republicans gear up for basically a bureaucratic civil war. Tatarewicz... ” as the Democrats an Republicans gear up for basically a bureaucratic civil war.” This is just for show. Remember both the donkeys and the elephants are brothers; were “handpicked” by the Israeli lobby for service to Israel in exchange for Jews providing these candidates with sufficient funding, campaign organization and media coverage to win seats in Congress CHEVI789... @anti, we’re all looking at this the wrong way, all western leaders should be tried for treason, working for outsiders against the interest of your citizens is a big no no. Tatarewicz... . But it’s the outsiders who get all western leaders elected through skillful campaign funding and organization. Joe six-packs too busy with work, family, watching TV/sports or just too ignorant, lazy to do the work necessary for a politician to get elected. Read more at https://syrianperspective.com/2017/05/trump-sued-by-watchdog-to-discover-legal-reasons-for-his-attack-on-syria.html#riQKOUwilft7dhuk.99 Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Those cruise missiles have become outdated. They needed to use them since they could not be taken back and dismantled. So this could be seen as a use them or lose them situation. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
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