The Iraq War Is Now Illegal

Daily Beast by Bruce Ackerman, Oona Hathaway | Jan. 3, 2009 (Opinion)

Ongoing combat in Iraq is illegal under US law. As of January 1, Congress' authorization of the war expired.

In authorizing an invasion in 2002, Congress did not give President Bush a blank check. It explicitly limited the use of force to two purposes: to “defend the national security of the US from the threat posed by Iraq” and “enforce all relevant UN Security Council resolutions.” Full Story »

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by George Blahusiak - Jan. 3, 2009

Congress authorized the war? Come again? Since when is the US the world body. Its laws start and end at its borders, and Congress never had the power to authorize that war. Hence it has always been illegal. The WMD? There's another one. If the Congress had examined the evidence as it should have the war never would have started. Instead a buch of sociopaths claimed that allegations of WMD were facts and evidence at law. If the journalist could get facts correct at the start maybe there wouldn't be more wars.