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> On Fri, 2 May 2003, Ian Murray wrote:
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> > Did the White House formally declare war on Iraq? I don't remember
> > seeing anything in the Federal Register under Presidential Documents
or
> > anything remotely similar. Did I miss it?
>
> Not in the sense of an official declaration of war. We rarely make them
> because it's Congress that has ot do it that cramps the executive style.
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And Congress delegated away an authority it is not authorized to delegate away under the C., no? Justin?
> However Bush did go on TV and give Saddam a 48 hour deadline after
which,
> he announced, hostilities would begin. (All the bombing that had taken
> place in the preceding month was unofficial.)
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So 'we' went from fuzzy logic to fuzzy math to fuzzy legality in less than a century.
> The laws about what has to happen once hostilities are over are part of
> the Geneva convention rather than US law. Which we pay enormous homage
to
> in form while continually worming out of it in substance. Which is
> exactly what we are doing here.
>
> Michael
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So the fuzzy paradigm [I'm not kidding on this one] has fully displaced the form-substance binary of the Aristotelian-Cicero-ean paradigm of the logic of law as applied to warfare as expressed in your second sentence..........
Ian