Is this a political science list or an information security list? ;) I
mean, I'm all for a debate about the inherent war powers of the President,
or the War Powers Act in specific, but I'm not sure that's really the point
here. ;)
On 10/29/07, Leif Ericksen <lericksen@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Either way they are doing it to advance their own agenda.
bottom line that is what their lack of action is all about. Their own
agenda.
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Leif Ericksen
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:03 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:35:04 CDT, Leif Ericksen said:
Yes the president can send the troops to war.
Congress is needed to declare war (the president can not do it)
See the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_United_States
After World War II, Congress voluntarily limited its use of the power
to
declare war to issuing authorizations of force.
Right. And Congress wussed out and gave Bush basically a blank check
and hasn't gone back to change its mind. They gave him that
authorization.
Two weeks ago, during a hearing in the House International Relations
committee,
****I attempted to force the committee to follow the Constitution and
vote to declare war with Iraq.****
COMMENT: If Ron Paul is the author of that Vote for me and I will end
the war he is contradicting himself the the statement found in the
link
I have provided and just outlined. Does that mean a lie? Dishonesty?
No, what he did, near as I can tell, was to tell Congress to actually
get
*serious*, and if they wanted a *war* to *declare* a war, rather than
some
mamby-pamby "authorization to use force". Congress proved not to have
the collective cojones to Do The Right Thing.
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