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International Law Expert Boyle: Impeach Obama on September 9
3 September 2013
(EIRNS)—In a statement released to EIR News Service on September 2, 2013, Professor Francis Boyle said, ``I think we have to play jujitsu with Obama. He wants Congress to vote for war on September 9. Instead of playing his game, we should call for Congress to impeach him on September 9—immediately, which they can do. That will send a shot across his bow now.’’ Boyle, who is a professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, was interviewed live on Sept. 1 on a Chicago WLUW-FM broadcast called the Logic Consortium. The show is hosted by a former law student of Boyle’s, Jake Briskman. The entire show can be heard at http://www.logicconsortium.org/Syria.mp3 Boyle, and another guest on the same show, University of Illinois History Professor Kenneth M. Cuno thoroughly debunked Obama Administration claims on the Syria situation. In summary, Boyle identifies the Syrian war push as continuing the lies behind the 2011 war on Libya, and as a prelude to the next War With Iran, which is already on the drawing boards. Boyle described the post-9/11 policies of the neo-conservatives, a group which he says Obama is part and parcel of. Obama is the same and worse than George W. Bush. Boyle also de-bunked the White House proposed war powers resolution which he thoroughly reviewed after it was published by the Administration. The resolution is not limited, it gives the White House a blank check for boots on the ground and regime change. Obama’s claims of calling for a limited specific action are lies. Boyle also compared the lies of Syria to the lies used to start both the Iraq War and the Vietnam War, going after the ``Best and the Brightest’’: liars from Harvard and Yale University Law Schools, which include Obama and many other Harvard graduates. Boyle also referred people to a posting he had made on the Institute for Public Accuracy website on Aug. 30, in which he and Daniel Ellsberg and Robert Parry debunk the ``Dodgy Dossier,’’ put forward by the Obama Administration to attempt to lie their way into justifying the war with Syria. In that posting, repeated by Boyle on the radio interview, he says, "the test of the Administration dossier is `high confidence,’ but the appropriate standard by the International Court of Justice at The Hague, is `beyond a reasonable doubt.’ The dossier notes that it does not ’confirm’ the allegations against Syria. So the U.S. intelligence community refuses to ’confirm’ that the Syrian government did it.’’ Kerry claimed in his remarks that the opposition has not used chemical weapons, but Carla Del Ponte of the United Nations Commission that investigated chemical weapons usage in Syria, said that the rebels had used CW. (GP_) |