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To: tired_old_conservative
The MCM is an executive order...

Under which he is being tried. If the CiC has no legit authority, then neither does the MCM.

Congress isn't in charge of the Military. The President is. Honest... It's in the Constitution. Read it. Congress declares war and holds the purse strings, that is all. The Prez is the CiC. Full stop.

182 posted on 12/02/2010 2:25:24 PM PST by Dead Corpse (III, Alarm and Muster)
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To: Dead Corpse; tired_old_conservative

>>The MCM is an executive order...
>
>Under which he is being tried. If the CiC has no legit authority, then neither does the MCM.

You make a good point here, Dead Corpse. Pascal put it this way “Not even the most equitable of men is allowed to be judge of his own cause.” That is precisely what we have here:
The authority to hold a Court Marital is an Executive Order, which tired_old_conservative admits; and since this court martial will be held under the executive order which Obama has signed, whose very legitimacy to be the President is in question, it amounts to having Obama judge his own case. (Yes, there are levels of indirection; however, the principal remains the same.)

>Congress isn’t in charge of the Military. The President is. Honest... It’s in the Constitution. Read it. Congress declares war and holds the purse strings, that is all. The Prez is the CiC. Full stop.

I think Dead Corpse has you there tired_old_conservative; The constitution gives the Congress the power to fund the Army [and limited at that], the power to declare war, and the power to “call forth the militia to execute the laws of the union and repel invasion.”


192 posted on 12/02/2010 3:31:20 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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