Posted on 04/08/2006 9:04:51 PM PDT by dbostan
What is this the third time this has been posted today alone? Fourth?
If a nuclear strike took place, I think the result could be an impeachment, and I think a lot of Republicans would go along with it. But it sounds pretty farfetched.
Is North Korea invited to the party?
explain?
Maybe this was leaked to counter all that blustering from the Iranian navy.
LETS PUMP IT UP
No military action would happen against Iran without authorization from Congress. I doubt if nuke / non-nuke will be mentioned. Hasn't in the past, so he would have the authority to use a nuke.
I doubt seriously that he would.
Why is Bush planning it? Oh....he's the master mind behind 9/11...
means first-strike use of nuclear weapons without clear congressional approval (the modern version of declaration of war) = impeachment.
Keep dreaming.
is there a law saying the President has to get congressional approval before the use of nuclear weapons?
my thought on this is that Iran, unlike Iraq, would not sit quietly as the congressional debate moved. Iran WANTS a fight and I can only assume they would be making some bold pre-emptive moves at the same time as US special ops units did their things.
well, its an act of war. not sure if he has the ability to unilaterally start a war without some sort of DoW or authoritzation to use force.
I don't believe POTUS had either to invade grenada or panama, not sure on serbia, but of course nukes were not used. Panama could be argued as allowed by existing treaty (neutrality clause).
just saying that I don't think any US President could politically get away with ordering a preemptive nuclear strike under any circumstances.
Of course there is a plan to use nuclear weapons against Iran. Bush has to consider all options and one of those options is to use nuclear weapons. Therefore, I'm sure someone has drawn up a plan of how to most effectively use nuclear weapons against Iran.
The questions is whether he actually intends to use the plan. That, I suspect, is very unlikely.
But any time I read a headline that "The President has a plan to...," I think, "Of course." A President -- any President from any party -- needs to have all options laid out in order to make a decision.
The President is CinC. If he wants to nuke Switzerland he could. The framers of the constitution did not mean for "declare war" to mean "make war". In fact, the original statemant was "make war", but they removed it.
I can only believe that your statement is true. The madman who runs the place is not prone to tact. Nothing we have heard from the throw-up-ollahs over there have given us any reason to believe they are not a bunch of suicide bombers who have the gavel of power.
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