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On Sun, 09 May 2010 21:39:52 -0400, Harold Burton
wrote:

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So let us know when LBJ is prosecuted for lying us into Vietnam and
killing FAAAAAAAAAAAR more Americans than Dubya did.
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While this pegs the irony meter, there is an underlying
truth, namely that the founding fathers knew what they were
doing when they included Article 1 "Section 1 - Legislative
powers; in whom vested: All legislative Powers herein
granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States,
which shall consist of a Senate and House of
Representatives." §8, "...==To declare War,== grant
Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning
Captures on Land and Water;…"

While Congress has, from time to time, been manipulated into
war declaration for the benefit of the few, e.g. the Mexican
(1846-1848) and Spanish-American (1898) wars, the extreme
and frequent abuse of the military option, with enormous
waste of citizen blood and taxpayer funds, has been through
recent undeclared wars which bypassed Congress [except for a
wink and a nod], that were intended to be quick and fought
"on the cheap."

Until and unless Congress grows a set, and imposes their
Congressional prerogatives/duties in this area, if only
through the authorization/appropriations process, it will
not only continue but expand, although the Federal
government is in a very precarious domestic and
international financial situation, which is *VERY RAPIDLY*
getting worse.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...050703188.html
{time to bring back the draft????}
http://costofwar.com/
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aP2k8sq2WiRU
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnal...aspx?id=532490
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ket-time-bomb/


-- Unka George (George McDuffee)
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The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).