“I’d love to see his argument for Bush going into Iraq. Somehow I expect he wouldn’t have the same opinion.”
Did you even READ the article???
Quote:
“Jack Goldsmith, a professor at Harvard Law School, worked in the Bush administration from 2002 to 2004”
I did read the article, and I noted only passing references to Bush (though it was noted that he went to Congress for authorizations). And I get the overall point — Bush asked for authorizations; Obama hasn’t thus far. The article COULD HAVE used Bush’s example to explain how military actions become legally justified through Congress. He didn’t. And because that’s the most obvious counter-example, it does raise a red flag with me.
Look: I didn’t know the credentials of this guy, but I do have to be suspicious on the surface given his Harvard connection. Since he didn’t take the opportunity to take us through the proper channels of action that Bush used, I do have to wonder if that’s because he didn’t feel it was a justified war action.
Okay - I tried to assume that everybody’d figure out where I waa going on that from a too-simple one-liner answer above. Mea culpa.