[bill1952]

Are you sure that you are on the right forum?

I'm thinking that your time here will be short.

Thank you for your service, but this old timer can tell you that anyone knows that the draft is a recipe for disaster, and that is exactly the reason that Liberal Trash wants it.

I'd love to put troops on the border, but that isn't going to happen because of that little Constitution thing, and the US stays in Iraq until the job is done.

And coming here and insulting Rumsfeld marks you as a troll, and a rather dumb one, at that.

[El Gato]

I'd love to put troops on the border, but that isn't going to happen because of that little Constitution thing,

The Constitution does not forbid putting troops on the border. If anything, it envisions that's where they should be. The Constitution authorizing calling up the militia to "execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions". Surely the regular or reserve (select militia) military could be used to repel Invasions as well.

You may be confusing the Posse Commitatus act with the Constitution. It's a common error. But even that only forbids use of the regular military to enforce the laws, and originally applied to state and local laws, not federal ones. The Act is full of holes anyway, because as Congress made it, they could modify it, and have, with numerous exceptions.

Unless you can point to which section and paragraph of the Constitution forbids putting troops on the border?

[johnb838]

Where in the constitution does it say we can't put troops on the border? If you're talking about Posse Comitatus you'll be looking a long time because that's just a law Congress passed in like 1870-something.

[johnb838]

And I'm about to say we ought to get the hell out of there too rather than sit around shooting spitballs at these monsters. I wouldn't counsel MY kids to join this PC army.

[dirtboy]

I'd love to put troops on the border, but that isn't going to happen because of that little Constitution thing,

Ain't a Constitution thing. It's a single law change thing.