Senator Moynihan proves an excellent guide through these thickets, in a discussion prompted by President Bush's having invoked international law as the basis for our countering of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. WFB: "We either know or we don't know that international law has been broken--people disagree about that. Sometimes six lawyers say yes and six lawyers say no...." DPM: "They do that before the Supreme Court five days a week when it's in session, and no one ever doubts that there's a federal legal system.... That law is there, it's in writing, rarely is it truly ambiguous."... WFB: "Can [Bush] say to Congress: I don't need you any more, because the United Nations Charter's the supreme law by which I'm governed in this matter?" DPM: "And under Article 25 a nation must abide by a ruling of the Security Council. I think he could say that. I hope he doesn't."