President George Bush, surrounded by leaders of the House and Senate, announces the Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, October 2, 2002.
Posted on 09/18/2014 10:31:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The United States last declared war many wars ago, on June 5, 1942, when, to clarify legal ambiguities during a world conflagration, it declared war on Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Today’s issue is not whether to declare war but only whether the president should even seek congressional authorization for the protracted use of force against the Islamic State.
Promising to “destroy” this group with the help of “a broad coalition” of “partners,” President Obama said last week, “I welcome congressional support for this effort.” He obviously thinks such support is optional, partly because this “effort,” conducted by U.S. combat aircraft, is something other than war. There he goes again.
Regarding war with the Islamic State, the Constitution requires what prudence strongly recommends — congressional authorization.
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everything else too
in that regard, he is behaving no differently from every president since FDR.
Obama defying the constitution? Again? When do we get to impeach this usurping wannabe dictator?
And just about everything else, too.
“in that regard, he is behaving no differently from every president since FDR”
The federal government has disregarded the constitution for many years.
My point was that NO president (not one) since FDR has even asked for a declaration of war from congress, never mind obtaining one, before taking our country to war - Mr. Obama is not unique in that respect.
We darned well should have declared war in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan.
Call it what it is.
As I said in another post, Obama’s Generals would do well to put this POTUS under house arrest for treason and willfully putting our military in handcuffs when facing the enemy...to appease Islam if for no other reason.
President George Bush, surrounded by leaders of the House and Senate, announces the Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, October 2, 2002.
When Jefferson first took the U.S. to war in the Middle East - the First Barbary War - Congress had, prior to his inauguration, authorized a naval response to the Barbary pirate states, should they declare war on the U.S., which the Bey of Tripoli obliged them with after Jefferson took office.
U.S. presidents and Congress should use similar construction of language in legislation that acknowledges that Islamic jihad terrorists HAVE declared THEY are at war with us - thus, Congress need only require the POTUS to ask and obtain a vote that, with regard to any such group, that that group has opened the state of war with us, and the president can respond as Congress further provides the means for.
When he stood on the Capitol steps on January 20, 2009 and stumbled through the oath of office, as a foreign born illegal alien, pretending to be president, he defied The Constitution. Emboldened, he has been defying it every day since.
Obama’s been violating the Constitution for years, why is the Washington Post only pissy now?
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