"The Iraq war was illegal, and a massive collection of war crimes, but at least the Bush administration went to great lengths over many months to construct what lawyers call a “colorable” argument that it wasn’t. The most salient feature of the Iran war is that nobody involved in launching the war has made the slightest attempt to provide a fig leaf for its flagrant criminality.
"This is why I have a certain impatience with arguments over
whether this or that act within the war is a war crime on wholly
independent grounds — that is, would be a war crime even if the war
itself had some shred of legality or justification. I understand that
this is an important legal distinction from the perspective of the
individual commanders and soldiers who are carrying out their orders,
but the whole thing is just a gigantic crime from beginning to end, and
it’s startling — this is a rhetorical phrase, it actually isn’t — that
these massive crimes are being carried out in public with almost no
discussion of the fact that they are what they are (Again, the most
striking feature here is the absence of any semblance of attempt to
justify what is both morally and legally mass murder on a vast scale)." -- law professor Paul Campos, LGM, in his post today, "Kinetic Illegality." The vast scale and scope of the Malignant Fascist's criminality is breathtaking. The narcissistic sociopath wants to have an historical legacy second to none, and he may very well achieve that -- as one of the most malign figures ever to strut the world stage.
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