[PEN-L] New York Times Says Dem Congress Won't Have Authority to Change Course of Iraq War

Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy, October 27 Incredible, but true. In the course of an article making fun of Congressional Democrats for not having a unified position on the war, the New York Times reported today that "even if the Democrats win one or both houses of Congress, they will not hav

Re: [PEN-L] New York Times Says Dem Congress Won't Have Authority to Change Course of Iraq War

Related: For Vietnam, the authorizing bill was written with a clause that allowed the Senate to vote to end the war. Not so with Iraq. There may have been other consequences to the wording of the Iraq invasion documentation that puts the war on 'auto-pilot' so to speak. . On 10/27/06, Robert Naim

Re: [PEN-L] New York Times Says Dem Congress Won't Have Authority to Change Course of Iraq War

On 10/27/06, Robert Naiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy, October 27 Incredible, but true. In the course of an article making fun of Congressional Democrats for not having a unified position on the war, the New York Times reported today that "even if the Democrat

Re: [PEN-L] New York Times Says Dem Congress Won't Have Authority to Change Course of Iraq War

On 10/27/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I read the same article and also wondered what it meant. Then, it occurred to me that maybe the NYT reporter meant to suggest that the Democratic Party leaders will not do anything radical like denying the President his war funds or impeac