Francis Boyle: US threat to nuke Iran is criminal
Press TV – December 24, 2011
A distinguished American expert on international law says the US government threatening Iran with nuclear war amounts to an internationally accepted criminal act.
Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois at Champaign, further noted that when Obama administration officials say “all options are on the table,” against Iran, they are, in fact, alluding to a nuclear war which is prohibited by international law.
Addressing the 18th conference on “Direct Democracy” in Feldkirch, Austria, on nuclear deterrence, Boyle added that the US government is threatening to attack Iran “under the completely bogus pretext” that it might have a nuclear weapon.
He added that as the sole global authority to monitor nuclear activities, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has already refuted charges against Iran as “simply not true.”
The legal expert stated that Article 2 of the UN Charter “prohibits both the threat and the use of force except in cases of legitimate self-defense” and the US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, “do not qualify under that definition.”
The professor also said that nuclear weapons and “nuclear deterrence” have “never been legitimate instruments of state policy, but have always constituted instrumentalities of internationally lawless and criminal behavior.”
Boyle noted that the former US President George W. Bush’s doctrine of preventive warfare, which has not been officially repealed by Obama, was in fact, concocted by the Nazi lawyers for the Nazi defendants at Nuremberg and was rejected at that court.
“If we don’t act now, Obama and his people could very well set off a Third World War over Iran that has been already threatened publicly by (the former President George W.) Bush Jr.,” he asserted.
He added that the governments of all the nuclear weapons states – including the US, Russia, France, Britain, China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea – are “criminal” for threatening to exterminate humanity.
“If mass extermination of human beings is a crime, the threat to commit mass extermination is also a crime,” Boyle said.
The professor noted that the US today is engaged in “ongoing international criminal activity” for “planning, preparation, solicitation, and conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide.”
“The design, research, testing, production, manufacture, fabrication, transportation, deployment, installation, storing, stockpile, sale, purchase, and the threat to use nuclear weapons are criminal under well-recognized principles of international law,” Boyle added.
He concluded by saying that the leaders of NATO states which “go along with US nuclear policies are all accomplices as well.”
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Really? What is anybody or any nation going to do about it?
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cut off the flow of oil and bring america’s petrochemical based economy and war machine to a halt.
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“Boyle noted that the former US President George W. Bush’s doctrine of preventive warfare …. was in fact, concocted by the Nazi lawyers for the Nazi defendants at Nuremberg”.
Complete hogwash. Defense through offense long predated the Nazis, and even the Romans, undoubtedly it goes back as long as one people’s saw a competing tribe preparing to attack it and decided a surprise offensive attack would work out better for them.
Even with respect to the Nazis, Hitler was quite clear in his speech calling for a declaration of war on Russia that he feared a Communist / Russian invasion of Europe, as millions of Russian soldiers were massing to their West and Communist agents were active throughout Western Europe attempting to overthrow religion and capitalism, and that he felt it was the duty of Germany, as the only country capable of defending Europe from this threat, to preempt the eminent military invasion, Whether or not one agrees with Hitler’s assessment of the danger posed by Communist Russia at the time, the fact is this storyline was hardly “concocted” by lawyers at Nuremburg.
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Notice the good Professor leaves out Israel as a Nuclear Weapons country, Israel has 200 + Nukes and has also threaten the World with “Samson Option” i love how these Americans leave out anything Israel does.
Why is it important because AIPAC the Jewish Lobby and different Israeli Ministers on a daily basis threaten Israel, has paid agents on the Internet in Chat Rooms and Forums giving out false information about Iran and trying to stir the pot.
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It’s not “these Americans” that leave out Israel. It’s these Israelis in control of America. Symantics? Probably, but I don’t want to be known as anti-symantic.
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Didn’t Israel hand North Korea Nuclear Weapon Technology? I bet their weapons grade material comes from the same plant in Pennsylvannia the CIA furnished Israel way back. Poor ol’ United Snakes can’t butter its’ bread on both sides anymore with the Moslem Nations, and the Jews, so its stuck doing Israeli false flag wars.
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isrealis and USA are nothing but a bunch of nazis, stop them , get a zionist near you and send a message
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someday it’ll come. Karma is one mean beyotch. the come uppance the U.S. and Britain and Israel and the other Rothschilds puppets around the globe are, all have a hell of a karmic whip to deal with someday.
the only chance of survival for humanity is that the U.S.and Britain and Israel be defanged by any and all means necessary.
until that happens, the entire whole of mankind will live under fear of nuclear threat by them.
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The world revolution which we will experience will be exclusively our affair and will rest in our hands. This revolution will tighten the Jewish domination over all other people.”
– Le Peuple Juif, February 8, 1919.
“The governments of the peoples included in this world republic, with the aid of the victorious proletariat, all will fall without difficulty into Jewish hands. Private property will then be strangled by the Jewish directors, who will administer the state patrimony everywhere. Thus the promise of the Talmud will be fulfilled, that is, the promise that the Jews, at the arrival of the Messiah, will possess the key to the wealth of all the peoples of the earth.”
– Baruch Levy, in a letter to Karl Marx, published in the Rothschild controlled La Revue de Paris, June 1, 1928.
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The Professor’s obviously correct, but, since it’s obvious, the less obvious may be more interesting to consider. Readers may profit from keeping in mind that the present situation, in terms of international law, arises in the political geography created by the Treaty of Westphalia, which establish the legally egalitarian status of States to Contract. International law is based on this assumption – that all States, regardless of power or size or wealth, stand equally so far as their ability to make treaties, or war, or to trade, and so on. Ali Khan (a law professor) wrote to this some time ago. This assumption was valid, more or less, for about 350 years. Evidently it’s no longer a true assumption. That is what’s significant. Man has arrived at the end of an historic period. This implies, as all “ends” do, a “commencement”, a new beginning. Look back, gentlemen, to the period just prior to the Treaty of Westphalia – and in that period, the period immediately prior to that “commencement”, you’ll see today in prologue. What’s it look like? World War….
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William,
I ran across an article making that prediction recently. European powers will again turn their forces inward and self destruct. Of course that might give the third world a break.
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Thank you Aletho for bring Francis Boyle into the virtual discussion.
Vance raised the issue of Israel being absent among the aggressor states with nukes. I went to his latest article and was impressed by how concisely and comprehensively, he addressed the issue referencing International law specifically.:
‘…….In post -9/11 America and Britain, the world is directly confronted with the prospect of a nuclear war of annihilation conducted by their White Racist Judeo-Christian Power Elites against Peoples of Color in the Muslim and Arab and Asian worlds in order to steal their oil and gas…….’ http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27997
Of course, it is the encirclement of Russia by forward positioning of first-strike nuclear weapons systems with the idea of getting capitulation and not a world war three.
And this is not the doing of Bush Jr and Obama. It is those who put them there, it is David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and more potently, Zbigkniew Brzezinski; who want the ego-centric gratification of having conquered the world before they die, they are chronic Cold-Warriors and want to celebrate with Queens tune, ‘We Are The Champions of The World’
The URL below takes you to 34 articles written by Francis Boyle posted on Global Research. You will the greatly empowered and use it well or you wouldn’t have read this far.:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=listByAuthor&authorFirst=Francis%20A.&authorName=Boyle
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Bill,
While I may concur that the aggressive use of nuclear weapons is a crime against humanity, I find the redirection of attention to oil and gas wholly wrongheaded.
Perhaps he uses this rhetoric in order to avoid being smeared as an anti-Semite. This would explain his avoidance of addressing the Israel component which other commentators have noted.
I have been more than adequately exposed to Global Research and find their singular focus on the “war for oil” meme dogmatic and frankly I no longer have the time for them.
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Yes, I can not salute pragmatism with such unethical, immoral, and legal grounds, whatsoever. Yet, I learn from the work of journalist there and was removed from KPFK for being outspoken on Israel. In reference to the Intifada; I said on the air: “The Israelis have twisted the Star of David into a swastika over the West Bank!”
Purges of honest observers who bear witness to injustice and wanton criminality are punished in what is in actuality, a conspiracy of totalitarianism by Zionist attacking First Amendment Rights of Freedom of Speech, Press and assembly.
You my dear comrade in honesty, are the most forthright website in the English language I know of on the genocidal aggression of the Israel government and its demented “settlers” who are illegally occupying Palestine, Syria, and less illegally, the White House, US Congress, and looted economy of the US.
Further, we must face our moment of truth on 9/11. We know Deputy Attorney General (Rabbi) Michael Chertoff (dual US-Israeli citizen), released the 100+ Mossad agents captured by the NYPD and FBI.
Wolfowitz at the pentagon, and the conspicuous complicity (at minimum) of General Richard Myers and Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin.
I am not playing “holier than thou” – none of us should, I am not about to loose support from contributors, get fired, loose my girlfriend, be ostracized or estranged as a pariah in my small social sit for my uncompromising commentary on the Palestinian-Israel crisis. Those I alienate, I can do without, and in fact, prefer it that way!
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