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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