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So when Obama says "we" have moral authority to liberate Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis, Libyans or other nations he attacks, Nobel laureate Harold Pinter once reflected in January 2000 on then lawless 1999 Serbia/Kosovo operations, saying:
"When they said '(w)e had to do something,' I said: Who is this 'we' exactly that you're talking about?....Under what heading do 'we' act, under what law? And also, the notion that this 'we' has the right to act,' I said, presupposes a moral authority of which this 'we' possesses not a jot! It doesn't exist!"
In fact, it's as immoral, unethical and illegal as for serial killers, motivated by whatever drives them, including a passion for violence, real or delusional rewards.
When they're nations, not sociopaths, Orwellian doublespeak disguises real motives deceptively. For example, Obama calls Libyan attacks a "time-limited, scope-limited military action," not war, no matter how much death and destruction is inflicted.
So claiming constitutional Article 2, Section 2 authority as armed forces commander in chief, in fact, violates Article 51 of the UN Charter, prohibiting attacks against other nations except in self-defense, and only until the Security Council acts.
Moreover, the Constitution's Article 1, Section 8 is violated, granting Congress sole power to declare war, never the executive unilaterally, for any reason or with doublespeak mumbo jumbo disguising it.
War is war. It's also hell on the receiving end, harmful to combatants, and detrimental domestically when popular needs go unmet.
As chief executive, Obama is responsible for mass murder and destruction. If rule of law standards mattered, he'd be impeached, convicted and jailed for high crimes - in fact, the supreme international one against peace and others related to it.
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