Re: [Full-disclosure] spammer wades into US Presidential race

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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