[Peace-discuss] [ufpj-activist] NYT: Pledge to Impeach Trump, a Key Donor Demands of Democrats

[C G Estabrook]

Noam Chomsky pointed out a generation ago, "If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.”

The same is obviously true of the presidents of this generation, up to and including Obama and Trump.

In the judgment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which followed World War II, "War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

It is clear that all US presidents since that judgement have initiated wars of aggression. (To say one is merely continuing a predecessor’s war of aggression is obviously not an exculpation.) 

—CGE


> On Oct 12, 2017, at 3:28 PM, stansfield smith via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
>  
>     I think the Democrats and Republicans would be fine with Pence as president. I don't think there is any lack of evidence to impeach Trump. In fact, there is no lack of evidence for impeaching any of the presidents. I don't think anyone can name one who did not repeatedly violate the Constitution.
> 
> 
> 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/attachments/20171013/a3ecdc11/attachment-0001.html>