John Bolton: Iraq war legal, warns of UK's road to suicide

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John Bolton states that the war against Saddam Hussein's regime was legal and warns

"To the extent you've got a lot of lawyers in the United Kingdom who can't find a way for Britain lawfully to use force to defend itself against the kind of threat that a regime like Saddam's posed indicates that you're on a road toward national suicide."

Bolton was debating the issue of the legality of the Iraq war with the United Kingdom Member of Parliament Menzies (Ming) Campbell.

BBC presenter Gavin Esler.

BBC Newsnight. 29th January 2010

John R. Bolton from 2001 worked as the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security then was nominated by President George W. Bush as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in 2005.

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[rmccay88]

It is an illegal war under our Constitution. I am so sick of this notion that because it was under the U.N. bullshit as a excuse of why the invasion was justified. Congress did not declare war and therefore it is an unconstitutional war. When you don't declare wars, the wars never end and we become occupiers which is exactly what ended up happening. Not following the Constitution when it is convenient is a road to disaster as we have seen with undeclared wars.

[IraqMission]

@rmccay88 October 11, 2002

WASHINGTON — Congress has given President Bush the authority to use military force against Iraq in a major policy victory for the White House.

The Senate approved the measure 77-23 early Friday morning at the end of a rocky week-long debate. The House voted for the resolution Thursday afternoon, 296-133.

Because the Democratic-led Senate approved the House version of the measure without changing a word, it now goes directly to Bush for his signature.

[rmccay88]

@IraqMission

I know Congress gave the authority to invade but it was unconstitutional because they never declared war against a country or al Qaeda. My whole argument is I don't like when the U.S. goes to war based on justifications under international law like U.N. resolutions instead of our own rule of law under the constitution. The authority to go to war and not declare it formally is not there in the Constitution and because the "wars" turn into nation building.

[IraqMission]

@rmccay88 Well look I am all in favour of non-legally-qualified citizens have a good old read of the law and the constitution and having their view point and expressing it but I am no lawyer nor a constitutional expert of the US constitution but I just have my political viewpoint which is the law and constitution needs to allow us to wage war on our enemies like Saddam.

You'd want to defend enemies like Saddam in place and that makes you a political menace to your own country & allies.

[Hperman09]

@rmccay88 The UN is a fucking joke. We have given the UN time to monitor Iraq's full disarmament of their WMDs program as part of a 1991 ceasefire agreement for many years but the UN botched it in favor of making deals in the "oil for food" scandal with Saddam, leaving millions of Iraqis to die. What gives the UN had the authority over the U.S.? The UN passed resolutions extending US stay in Iraq from 2003-2010 so what's illegal there?

We are a sovereign nation. We do what we think is right.

[OREUS39]

Bolton for president 2012!

[agent1up]

In an interview, Bolton discussed his comment in the reunion book, explaining that he decided to avoid service in Vietnam because "by the time I was about to graduate in 1970, it was clear to me that opponents of the Vietnam War had made it certain we could not prevail

[SclafaniBagni]

I happen to like John R. Bolton. Even if he is a flaming neocon, he's a brilliant foreign relations expert, really first rate. I'd gladly take a neocon for President any day over a wishy-washy liberal who has not an inkling of understanding in the field and has to rely solely on intel from his staff of Chicago pals.

[IraqMission]

@ehunter2 Bolton's point about heading for national suicide and your point about Britain losing national identity are fair points but the decline of the nation is more a function of the kingdom.

The home nations of Britain - the English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish have long been opposed by kingdoms and the nation of union, the British is opposed by the UK. The monarchists oppose all constitutional national rights and growth such as a right to elect our own heads of state and have republics.

[IraqMission]

@ehunter2 So the defeat of Saddam was a victory for the left, center and the moderate right and only a defeat for the far RIGHT.

Notice the person in this video arguing against regime change (no matter how vile the regime?) was a QUEEN'S COUNSEL Q.C. (a senior lawyer or advocate in the Queen's highest courts) and the fact that the legal system in the United Kingdom allows such a defender of tyrannical dictators to remain a Q.C. is a function of kingdoms being RIGHT-wing & MONO-cultural.