Re: spammer wades into US Presidential race

[Leif Ericksen <lericksen () sbcglobal net>]

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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