Was the gang of eight notified?

[Zoonart]

Did MF45 take this action on his own without notifying Congress?

[leftieNanner]

1. Very good question

My guess would be no. He does not follow any of the rules and there's probably nobody in his "administration" any more who would know that he is supposed to do that.

We are in very deep shit!

[Zoonart]

2. I am guessing no also.

This is indeed a dark deed. Possibly against international law.

[former9thward]

3. What "international law"?

[Zoonart]

5. Per the International Law Commission:

Article 2(4) the assassination is a foreign leader in peacetime with no provocation would therefore be a prima facie violation of basic international law.

[former9thward]

10. When you led an attack on an embassy on foreign soil there is no "peacetime".

If the U.S. attacked a embassy in Iran would you be saying the same thing?

[Zoonart]

12. We are not technically at war with Iran.

We are in Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi givernment. That will end now. Trump has just collapsed our entire position in the Middle East and possibly started A major war. What is you point? You think this is a good thing?

[TomSlick]

6. A few come to mind.

Article III, Hague Convention of 1907 - prerequisites for the initiation of war;
UN Charter,
Crime against Peace (Nuremberg Principal VI).

[Zoonart]

8. War criminal.

[TomSlick]

11. Not quite - well, not in this case.

We are not at war with Iran - that's the point.

What we have - first and foremost - is a crime against peace. (A crime for which, inter alia, several Nuremberg defendants were hanged.

[former9thward]

9. There is no "war".

This individual was on foreign soil leading an attack on a U.S. territory. Interesting how far people will go in defending Iran.

[TomSlick]

13. You are correct. There is no war - at least not yet - that's my point.

The violation of international law is the act of war and assassination in the absence of a state of war.

Defending international law is not the defense of Iran. No question, this was a really bad guy deserving of death many times over. However, there is no justification under international law for extra-judicial executions or "preventive war."

[MLAA]

4. I have been reading various articles, and I think one of them said Schumer was not informed.

Edited to add link to huff post article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/qassem-suleimani-killed-baghdad-airport_n_5e0e958fc5b6b5a713b7ffac

[bdamomma]

7. He did this

on his own.

Just like Syria. He's a fucking war criminal.

I thought I just heard on Lawrence O'Donnell, tRump was at some evangelical event.

tRump does not care, what did he say about Syria "there's a lot of sand". He's a fucking idiot.

Impeach his ass, are any of us going to forget his impeachment he needs to go more now than ever.

[Gothmog]

14. According to Rachel, the gang of 8 were not notified