Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

/not submitter

even the Dutch are going to be pushing us around now.

Sounds like a good move.

It's funny living in a country that's so huge and important but still seen as a bit of a loose cannon around the world. If an Italian were taken to the Hague and held there Italy might send a harshly worded letter but try that with an American and you might get Marines storming the Hague with or without this law.

Ellis suggests that Obama, a constitutional scholar, "realizes what this law means.... But we will have to wait to see how quickly [the new administration] can backtrack."

What does being a constitutional scholar have to do with this? This is about international relations.

So the Act protects American troops. Wonder if it protects the troops' commander-in-chief?

Screw the Dutch. We should just shove a Minuteman III up their filthy bums and be done with them.

Good.

Now maybe Obama can fix this crap too

Bush's contempt for veterans
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090209/apter?rel=hp_picks
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080915/kors
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/08/americas/medal.php
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/08/14/MN94780.DTL

SpeshilEdjukashin: Screw the Dutch. We should just shove a Minuteman III up their filthy bums and be done with them.

your passive aggression is, well, kinda passive

I like how we can just pass laws to legalize invasions. I'm sure that means the Dutch would have respected a US invasion since there is a law in Congress that says it is OK.

I hope he does.

Damn... there goes our chance to liberate the Netherlands again.

/They like Canadians... suck it, yanks.

real_headhoncho: Damn... there goes our chance to liberate the Netherlands again.

/They like Canadians... suck it, yanks.

Perhaps they approve of the job Harper is doing.

/heh

GaryPDX: Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

/not submitter

So do you support the Nuremberg Defense?

GaryPDX: Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

Didn't read or didn't understand the words in the article? For you to make such a stupid comment it has to be one or the other...right?

ZAZ: What does being a constitutional scholar have to do with this? This is about international relations.

I would say that generally a constitutional scholar is going to have enough knowledge about broader frameworks and laws to have at least a basic understanding of international law. And this is about international law. I would very much imagine studying constitutional law also requires the study of a broader base of law and legality than just the US Constitution. At least, one would hope.

GaryPDX: Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

Oh noes! He's destroying the milatery!

Since the Netherlands are part of NATO, would an invasion by the US force the other NATO members to retaliate? And on which side would they be?

WorldCitizen: GaryPDX: Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

Didn't read or didn't understand the words in the article? For you to make such a stupid comment it has to be one or the other...right?

YHBT.
YHL.
HAND.

GaryPDX: Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

/not submitter

No shiat. We don't need the fnaibun Dutch to discipline our own troops.

GaryPDX: Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

/not submitter

With every post you turn a little more loonbag. You're at shack porch banjo playing right now.

HEADLINES SHOULD NOT ASK A QUESTION.

/My editor puts laxatives in my coffee when I do that.

CDP: So do you support the Nuremberg Defense?

I wouldn't know about that, but he does often employ the Chewbacca Defense as justification for his posts.

"the law allows the US to constitutionally send jack-booted commandos to fly over fields of innocent tulips, swoop into the land of wooden shoes, tread past threatening windmills and sleepy milk cows into the Dutch capital - into a city synonymous with international law - and pry loose any US troops."

That's actually the exact quote from the law.

GaryPDX: Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

/not submitter

I thought you were going to run away and never come back ever again thus making us feel bad about all the things we'd said about you?

GaryPDX [TotalFark] Quote 2009-01-19 01:47:09 PM
kronicfeld: GaryPDX: Equal Protection!! I want my free crimes too!! I'm suing!!

You have completely left the reservation as a result of this last election. It would be entertaining if it weren't so sad.

No worries, I'm not renewing this time around. I'll be gone in a month or so.

GaryPDX: Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

/not submitter

Yeah, you're not gonna get a lot of people volunteering to do things that get them put on trial in an international court of law for war crime. How dreadfully awful!

apistat: GaryPDX: Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

/not submitter

Yeah, you're not gonna get a lot of people volunteering to do things that get them put on trial in an international court of law for war crime. How dreadfully awful!

Following the law is for sissy Europeans.

Ah, another redeployment comming? Or was that just cut and run?

Frack the Europeans, they hang French white flags of surrender out, and then expect the USA to save their rear ends.

apistat: GaryPDX: Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

/not submitter

Yeah, you're not gonna get a lot of people volunteering to do things that get them put on trial in an international court of law for war crime. How dreadfully awful!

Well at least anything an official not answerable to the US electorate says is illegal.

A good start to stimulate the economy....cut off aid money to snarky Europeans who are critical of our every move, but still have the nerve to ask for cash.

the netherlands owns

dutch supremacy

winterwhile: Ah, another redeployment comming? Or was that just cut and run?

Frack the Europeans, they hang French white flags of surrender out, and then expect the USA to save their rear ends.

Well, the French did save our asses in the Revolutionary War- Yorktown especially; we were just paying them back in WWII.

GaryPDX: Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

Holy faulty logic, Batman! That's some industrial-strength stupidity, even coming from you, Senor Snark.

The President has a huge weight on his shoulders. Including this. May he be wise.

That's the most hideous law I've ever heard of. I really hope Obama undoes it. What the fark. . .

GaryPDX: Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

How about telling our troops to stop torturing people? And The Hague is not Guantanamo, any US troops that ever get placed there will be able to have full representation by any attorney they can get, and I'm sure they would get the best. Even Slobodan Milosevic got some of the best lawyers.

ZAZ: Ellis suggests that Obama, a constitutional scholar, "realizes what this law means.... But we will have to wait to see how quickly [the new administration] can backtrack."

What does being a constitutional scholar have to do with this? This is about international relations.

IIRC the constitution says something about respecting international treaties and this probably violates several treaties.

zephyy:
dutch supremacy

Look, it's time for this Reagan worship to come to an end.

/pfft. Nobody remembers his nickname....

GaryPDX: Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

/not submitter

Yep - these people are known to "loathe the military". And vice versa.

I would guess part of their strategy is to actually try to dampen enlistment.

3_Butt_Cheeks: A good start to stimulate the economy....cut off aid money to snarky Europeans who are critical of our every move, but still have the nerve to ask for cash.

You'll save billions of imaginary money.

Seriously, there are people that defend this law? Wow. . . just, wow.

GAT_00: I like how we can just pass laws to legalize invasions. I'm sure that means the Dutch would have respected a US invasion since there is a law in Congress that says it is OK.

Nation below sea level. Bunkerbuster.

/say no more.

We're supposed to be the good guys.


This shouldn't even be a thing.

GaryPDX:
Well you better start drafting people as conscripts then, because I don't think you're going to get very many volunteers knowing their country isn't going to cover their backs.

/not submitter

"What would we have if people just refused to fight?"
"Peace?"
- M*A*S*H

But yes, this is just part of Obama's insidious plan to decimate the US military so that in four years, when the One World Government sends "Peacekeepers" to assist the fairness of his "election" as Supreme Chancellor For Life, there will be no patriotic American soldiers left to challenge them.

I would guess that if he did this, he would be impeached within a month.

Yep, 'Change' no one counted on and very few thinking people
believe in.

WTG, BARRY!

3 yrs, 11 months, a few days and counting.

Shryke: I would guess that if he did this, he would be impeached within a month.

Why? There's a good chance the law isn't Constitutional, and it certainly violates any number of international treaties that we've signed.

It speaks well of the Dutch people that they've simply ignored our stupidity, instead of cutting off all ties with us.

America. We are morally superior.

We are the chosen nation of Jesus and are above all laws of man.


Oh and we have more guns so that gives us the right to do whatever the fark we want and still proclaim righteousness.