The Pub Discussion Board

1. The United States *never ratified* the Geneva Convention, so we are not, in fact, bound by it.  We follow it anyway, of our own volition.

2.  Anyone who seriously thinks there is an alien base on the far side of the moon needs to have their head examined.  We are not worthy of that level of scrutiny by anyone, and if they had nefarious motivations, they would have carried them out already.  After all, if they have the tech to make it here, they sure as hell have the tech to wipe the floor with us.

3. We are not bombing the moon any more than we are "bombing" a gold mine.  We are impacting the moon for scientific study.  As I understand it, there aren't even any explosives in the impacter; it's simply a heavy mass.  I could be wrong about that, but it doesn't really matter.  Neither impact nor explosion actually constitute a "bomb".

4.  You want a better cover story for an alleged bombing of a far-side alien warbase?  Um....  The Arkelians want the Galaxy, and have given us a standard galactic week to return it?  Hell if I know.

Eric

Ummm...13 out of how many countries have signed the Moon Treaty.  Ummm, in the USA, isn't a treaty ratified by 3/4 of the Senate?  So, with less than 1/3 of the countries in the world signing the Moon Treaty, it is recognized as international law?  That to me is BS.  I think the article is way out in left field, because of the fact that they cite a treaty that is not really law.

Oh, and about Iraq, we had a Cease Fire that required that Iraq PROVE it had no chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons.  They did not do so, so we had the RIGHT under the conditions of the Cease Fire that allowed us invade and remove the government.  We just did not do a good enough job to point out that it was the only country we could legally invade to prove to the terrorist sponsor states that we could remove their governments.