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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > -- > Leif Ericksen > On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
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