Three More-Important Questions For Presidential Candidates To Debate

Moderator: Question for Vice-President Biden,

Mr. Vice-President, during the third Democratic debate, you said, that you "never should have voted to give [President] Bush the authority to go in and do what he said he was going to do." Actually as Chair of the pivotal Senate Foreign Affairs Committee you were outspoken in support of Bush's planned invasion.[1]

In view of your regret and the fact that neither the deadly US invasion, nor the years of a many lives costing undeclared war of occupation had United Nations approval, would you now be in favor of the US Government compensating the survivors of the more than two million Iraqi families who lost loved ones and awarding reparations for the massive destruction of property and indemnification for the huge loss and confiscation of Iraq'a natural resources?

Second Question

Moderator: Major Buttigieg, while talking on the subject of Afghanistan during the Democratic debate on September 12, 2019, you said "the best way not to be caught up in endless war is to avoid starting one in the first place." You never elaborated nor explained this implication, but it is known that you were part of the anti-war movement in 2002 at Harvard University [2] and might well have known, as many activists did, of President Carter's Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski bragging during a 1998 interview with a French magazine, of having, in 1979, had CIA recruit, fund, arm and train Muslim terrorists of Afghan hill tribe war lords to attack the very popular socialist, and women liberating, new government in Kabul in order to frighten in military help from the Soviet Union. Subsequently, Brzezinski openly invited Muslim warriors from everywhere into Afghanistan to fight the Soviet military and the Kabul government.[3]

More recently, Dick Black, a Republican State Senator of Virginia, upon his return from a fact finding tour in Syria, spoke of ISIS as "hellish filth we've recruited, armed and trained for eight years." "This disastrous war would never have occurred without American planning and execution. And it would have ended years and hundreds of thousands of casualties ago had we closed our training and logistics bases in Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar." Black found it sickening to hear the repeated claim that "Assad murdered 500,000 of his people," as though the U.S.-backed terrorists played no role in the killings.[4]

Mayor Buttigieg, is it your conviction that your government started all the present conflicts in the Africa and the Middle East in which the US is involved?

Third Question

Moderator: This question is for any candidates who wish to respond to:

Every society has laws against breaking and entry into someone else's home. During the 2012 Democratic Party's Presidential Candidates Debates, candidate Rep. Ron Paul was heard to claim more than once that all US post-Second World War invasions beginning with Korea were illegal, unconstitutional and a horrific loss of human life.

It was as if Rep. Paul was talking to himself, for no candidate, nor TV commentators afterward, made mention of Ron Paul's claim and the issue of US military forces having taken the lives of so many millions of men, women and children within their very own countries.

Are there not laws against a country invading another country, which has not attacked the first country, especially doing so without a declaration of war, as the Nazis did?

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark insists that by Article Six of the US Constitution,[5] the Nuremberg Principles of International Law are an integral part of the law of the land.[6]

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