[inquest]

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.

[mware]

I suspect that the president has a good memory and recalls the FISA court halted the search of Massouie's (sp?) computer, which may have halted 9/11 if the search had been allowed to continue.

That once cost us 3000 lives including my friends son who was on the 90th floor of the 1st tower hit. She didn't even have remains to weep over.

[NewLand]

Each of the three of you are using tactics that would make our liberal friends proud...parsing words, avoiding questions, making false statements (i.e. what POTUS did was illegal). Your statements all fein support for The Constitution when in fact you are supporting a judicial domination of our government...in time of war.

Don't expect to find much support here. Thank God we are in the majority in this country at this time, not you. You all are acting as if this is a debate that's being scored on points.

We are under threat, 7x24x365, of nuclear attack engineered from within, in cooperation with external enemies. You would rather find yourself proven "right" than protecting our nation from a threat that supercedes any in history.

Thank God President Bush doesn't see things the way you do.