DESTROYING WORLD ORDER U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East Before and After September 11th

Since the war in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom, Americans have been surprised to learn that much of the world now views the United States itself as a major threat to global peace. American international legal expert Francis A. Boyle examines the imperial dimensions of U.S. policy in the Middle East, past and present, which may help to account for these views.
In a hard-hitting commentary well-grounded in fact and in law, Boyle addresses the train of U.S. transgressions of international law, leading to havoc in the region, and destabilization of the world system as a whole. By the presidency of George W. Bush, U.S. policy had evolved to a public assertion of the right to preemptive strike, and its actual implementation.

This book discusses U.S. assistance to Iraq during the Iran/Iraq war, U.S. conduct of the 1990 Gulf War, and the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in relation to their violation of the laws of neutrality, humanitarian law, the laws of war--and the law of the U.S. Constitution.

The concluding chapter provides a guide to impeaching President George W. Bush for lying in leading the nation to war.

FOREWORD
American Imperialism
Founding World Order
Destroying World Order
Prologue

Chapter One:
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS AND NEUTRALITY: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE IRAQ-IRAN WAR
The Historical Background of U.S. Neutrality Policies
U.S. ?Neutrality? Toward the IraqIran War
Restoring International Peace and Security to the Persian Gulf
Conclusion
Postscript

Chapter Two:
UNITED STATES WAR CRIMES DURING THE FIRST PERSIAN GULF WAR
Introduction
The Charges
Universal Jurisdiction
The Historical Origins of the War
The Rapid Deployment Force
United States War Plans Against Iraq
Bush Is the Bigger War Criminal
Bush?s Perversion of the Constitution
Bush?s Mad Rush to War
Bush Corrupted the United Nations
Bush Circumvented and Violated Chapter VI of the United Nations Charter
The Conduct of the War Itself
Bush Ordered the Destruction of Facilities Essential to Civilian Life and
Economic Productivity Throughout Iraq
The United States and Enemy Soldiers
The United States Used Prohibited Weapons
The United States Intentionally Attacked Installations in Iraq Containing
Dangerous Substances and Forces
The United States Waged War on the Environment.
Defendant Bush Encouraged Fratricidal Violence
Defendant Bush Intentionally Deprived the Iraqi People of Necessities.
Defendant Bush Demands Reparations
Bush?s ?New World Order?
Impeachment
A Special Prosecutor

Chapter Three:
THE COURT MARTIAL OF CAPTAIN DR. YOLANDA HUET-VAUGHN FOR DESERTION

Chapter Four:
PETITION ON BEHALF OF THE CHILDREN OF IRAQ SUBMITTED TO THE UNITED NATIONS CHARGING PRESIDENT BUSH AND U.S. AUTHORITIES WITH GENOCIDE
Introduction
The Facts
Contentions
Competence
Jurisdiction
Prayer For Relief
Conclusion

Chapter Five:
HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION VERSUS INTERNATIONAL LAW
State Practice
International Law And Legitimate Military Intervention
International Law Against ?Humanitarian? Intervention
The Corfu Channel Case
Nicaragua V. United States of America
The Implications Of Bosnia And Herzegovina
Conclusion
Chapter Six:
GEORGE BUSH JR., SEPTEMBER 11
AND THE RULE OF LAW
Machiavelli Redux
International Legal Nihilism
11 September 2001
The Facts
The Powell/Blair White Paper
The Cover-Ups
The Bin Laden Video
Framing a Response to September 11th
Terrorism and the Law
The U.S. Policy Preference: Not Terrorism?War
The UN Security Council Disagrees: Terrorism, not War
Bush Sr. v. Bush Jr.
No Declaration of War from Congress
The Infamy of Korematsu
Instead, A Blank Check to Use Military Force
Bush Sr. v. Bush Jr. Redux
?Ending States?
Honest Nuclear War-Mongering
The Prostitution of NATO
Bush Jr.?s Crusade
The U.S./UN Ambassador of Death
Nazi ?Self-defense? Resurfaces
Retaliation Is Not Self-Defense
Choosing Violent Resolutions for International Disputes
Humanitarian Catastrophe
Why War?
It?s Still the Oil, Stupid!
How Empires Rule at Home
Bush Jr.?s Constitutional Coup D?Êtat
Ashcroft?s Police State
Bush?s Kangaroo Courts
The Bush Jr. Withdrawal from the ABM Treaty
Conclusion/Prologue

Chapter Seven:
THE BUSH JR. ADMINISTRATION?S WAR OF AGGRESSION AGAINST IRAQ
Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies, and Con-Artists
Oil and Gas as the Key to Global Dominance
Preventive War: The Nazi Precedent
The Judgment of Nuremberg
The Legal Determination of Guilt For War
Naming the Guilty
An Ongoing Criminal Conspiracy
Belligerent Occupation
The UN Fails to Observe Its Charter?Again
Prostitution of and by the United Nations
Tearing-up the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact
Reversing the Stimson Doctrine
Sabotaging the International Criminal Court
What Is To Be Done: Iraq for the Iraqis
America for the Americans

Chapter Eight:
A GUIDE TO IMPEACHING PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH JR.
Preventive Impeachment
Impeaching Bush Sr.
Constitutional Grounds for Impeachment
Impeaching Bush Jr.
Impeaching Clinton For the Right Reasons
Bush Jr. Impeachment Debate
Presidential Fears of Impeachment
Epilogue
CONCLUSION