CrimLaw

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A former congressional representative tries to sue President Bush because "All I ever wanted, and all I want right now, is that this president or any other president cannot preemptively strike another nation." And then there's the Yale professor who advocates two principals before a President can start hostilities:

"The first was the principle of double veto: There could be no major war without the consent of both Congress and the United Nations. The second was the principle of Congress' last say: Only after the UN Security Council established that war was consistent with the UN Charter would Congress decide whether it was in the best interests of the United States."

No way you'd want the leader of the United States (a sovereign nation), responsible for defending it in a world where the second strike can be too late, to have the ability to strike first. And nobody in the U.N. would act in a manner contrary to world interest, choosing to first the interests of their sovereign nations. Chirac est un ver.

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