[DugwayDuke]

“We don’t declare war on ideologies or cliques. Wars are decleared, by definition, on nation states.”

Ron Paul used that rationale to justify the fact that he didn’t want to declare war on Alqaeda. His nutty solution was Letters of Marque and Reprisal.

[hedgetrimmer]

Ron Paul used that rationale the Constitution to justify the fact that he didn’t want to a government operating constitutionally cannot declare war on Alqaeda.

The Congress shall have power..To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To declare war is to state that a state of war exists between us and another NATION.

A letter of marque, allows actions to be taken to seize and destroy assets or personnel belonging to a party that has committed an offense against our nation.

Bush won't declare war, because that would mean fighting Saudi Arabia, the major funder of terrorists globally.

A letter of marque against Al Queda is the constitutional and correct path our nation should be following. But since Saudi's fund Al Queda and harbor them, that would mean issuing a letter of marque against some of those corrupt Saudi princes, a thing Bush would NEVER do, no matter how many Americans are killed.

Also note that since Bush is busily erasing any notion of America as a nation with his SPP and assorted "free trade" deals, he wouldn't want us to declare war... that would be establishing nations as the operational authority in the matter and not his stupid 'working groups' and War Czar, and unconstitutional Department of Homeland Security.

[DreamsofPolycarp]

>“We don’t declare war on ideologies or cliques. Wars are >decleared, by definition, on nation states.”

Ron Paul used that rationale to justify the fact that he didn’t want to declare war on Alqaeda. His nutty solution was Letters of Marque and Reprisal.

Ron Paul used that rationale established fact to justify the fact that he didn’t want to declare a non-declarable war on Alqaeda. HisThe constitution of the USA provides a "nutty" solution called Letters of Marque and Reprisal, but since I have no idea about these or how they might work, I thought I would mock them instead.

There. Fixed it up for you. No charge.