The congress critters from WW 2 have continued to give up their powers, granting them to the executive, and this has become a major problem now. I mean look at the sheer number of executive orders, all of which carry the weight of law, without legislative or judicial oversight.
-----Original Message----- From: Eric Roberts [mailto:ow...@threeravensconsulting.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:58 PM To: cf-community Subject: RE: in the oh hell no category Um...no...that is not a declaration of war...that was handing over their power to control the president's actions with our troops, which is strictly limited. There was no declaration of war. Last declared war was WWII. The rest, as LRS aptly pointed out, have been "police and executive actions" Eric -----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 12:18 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: in the oh hell no category And yet you went and fought anyway. Congress does not need to declare to make it so. BTW, since congress voted for military action against Iraq that is considered a declaration of war. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:10 PM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Nope, sorry. > > No war was or has been declared since WW2, swing and a miss. > > Try again. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318039 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm