Kicking Ass in Afghanistan
Wednesday, April 7th, 2004Francis Boyle notes that George W. Bush knew the Afghanistan war would be illegal and simply didn’t care. Richard Clarke wrote in Against All Enemies:
When, later in the discussion {on the evening of Sept. 11, with Bush and his crisis advisors}, Secretary Rumsfeld noted that international law allowed the use of force only to prevent future attacks and not for retribution, Bush nearly bit his head off. “No,” the President yelled in the narrow conference room, “I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.”
