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To: WFTR; sauropod
From everything I've heard, the CP is opposed to our war against the enemy jihadists. All of the CP writings that I have see suggest that we shouldn't be fighting them.

This is from Michael Peroutka, who is currently the party's designated "provisional" Presidential candidate for 2004. :

"It's not that Congress doesn't have the authority to declare war. It's just that it hasn't done so." However, he emphasizes that
he strongly supported the US troops in Iraq while opposing "the unconstitutional procedures under which they were committed to fight."

183 posted on 01/17/2004 4:52:46 PM PST by jgrubbs
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To: WFTR; sauropod
"The last time Congress declared war was on December 11, 1941, against Germany in response to its formal declaration of war against the United States. This was accomplished with wording that took less than one-third of a page, without any nitpicking arguments over precise language, yet it was a clear declaration of who the enemy was and what had to be done. And in three-and-a-half years, this was accomplished. A similar resolve came from the declaration of war against Japan three days earlier. Likewise, a clear-cut victory was achieved against Japan."

"The process by which we’ve entered wars over the past 57 years, and the inconclusive results of each war since that time, are obviously related to Congress’ abdication of its responsibility regarding war, given to it by Article I Section 8 of the Constitution."

"Congress has either ignored its responsibility entirely over these years, or transferred the war power to the executive branch by a near majority vote of its Members, without consideration of it by the states as an amendment required by the Constitution."

"Transferring authority to wage war, calling it permission to use force to fight for peace in order to satisfy the UN Charter, which replaces the Article I, Section 8 war power provision, is about as close to 1984 "newspeak" that we will ever get in the real world."

"Not only is it sad that we have gone so far astray from our Constitution, but it’s also dangerous for world peace and threatens our liberties here at home."

--Congressman Ron Paul, October 3, 2002
198 posted on 01/17/2004 5:06:27 PM PST by jgrubbs
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