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To: NewLand
ndt says that this resolution doesn't count because it's not a formal declaration of war...thus, The President doesn't have the authority.

I'll comment. Check his sign up date.

349 posted on 12/27/2005 5:34:57 PM PST by mware (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL.")
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To: mware; ndt
Check his sign up date.

What about it? He's been here over 3/4 of a year. It'd be one thing if he just signed up yesterday, but he's been here long enough that he probably would have been banned by now if he was a troublemaker. Therefore his date is not an argument for or against any particular position.

On top of which, he's absolutely right that an AOF is not a DOW. The President routinely talks about the Iraq war as having been his decision (most recently in his Oval Office address to the nation a couple of weeks ago). That would not have been the case if Congress had passed an actual declaration of war. We'd have been at war from the moment the declaration was issued, and it would not have been the President's choice at all at that point, except when he actually signed the thing.

351 posted on 12/27/2005 5:49:34 PM PST by inquest (If you favor any legal status for illegal aliens, then do not claim to be in favor of secure borders)
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