More leftards whining about Sarah
distro pruned to rcm
On Sun, 09 May 2010 21:39:52 -0400, Harold Burton wrote: snip So let us know when LBJ is prosecuted for lying us into Vietnam and killing FAAAAAAAAAAAR more Americans than Dubya did. snip ======== 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) ............................... The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author. The Go-Between, Prologue (1953). |
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