[The_Eaglet]

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[cva66snipe]

Ron Paul is the Thomas Jefferson of our day. Our founders knew war sometimes was a necessity and unavoidable. They also knew and understood it was the most somber act we could do as a nation and put restraints on the Executive Branch as well as Legislative Branch because of it.

I do wonder the many who supported giving Bush Carte Blanche powers for Iraq would support Hillary the same? Or would it become a matter of limits of the Constitution if a DEM POTUS had done this?

If Letters of Marque and Reprisal had been issued on Saddam and sons as well as Bin Laden and others we may not have had Iran to deal with. A wiser POTUS would have called a closed door session of congress and asked for those actions. He would not have been strutting around shooting his mouth off for nearly a year saying we're coming to get you, then acted stumped because the ones were were after were in hiding.

A Republican who was GW Bush's mentor {Gerald R Ford} got us into the state sponsored terrorism mess by not following the Constitution and founders intent. He in effect with a single E.O. prohibited the ordered killings of heads of state. Not that Carter was any better he signed one just like it.

[Clemenza]

Yep, the really screwed the pooch with their "crusade for democracy" among a bunch of folks who didn't even want a REPUBLIC of any sort, let alone a "democracy."

Unless you make yourself a Viceroy, or a dictator, you CAN'T impose a form of government on a mass of people to whom such government is foreign. Its like giving castor oil to a baby.

Remember, that both Germany and Japan had advanced economies and PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WITH REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, unlike the Iraqis or Afghans.