Re: [Pen-l] it's official: Rumsy & Dubya committed war crimes

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:
> 
> sorry, I meant the UNSC, which in effective runs the UN. Sorry again:
> my point was opaque.[*] As far as I can tell, there really is no
> international law -- which requires the existence of a global state to
> enforce it.

There is a whole fabric of treaties, most but not all of which the U.S.
is party to, and which (as in the U.S.) have the force of law in the
states that ratify them. It isn't the ssame as state law but it is
sufficient (and so more or less traditionally recognized) to label it
international law. 

Carrol

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