>What do you mean specifically by “defend and UPHOLD . . . against ALL enemies”?
Just that; all who would seek to destroy, subvert, or invalidate the Constitution. This is not JUST external enemies, but internal ones such as a Congress which passes ex post facto, bill of attainder, tax laws (AIG/bailout-bonus recipients); a supreme court that declares that the government can size your property not for failing to pay taxes, but because they ‘project’ that they could get more “if things were different” (Kelo v. New London); and a military command which has been utterly negligent in regards to “protection from invasion” [US Constitution, Art 4, Sec 4].
>In your opinion is Hussein an enemy that our Armed Forces are duty bound, constitutionally bound to overthrow?
Let’s expand on that last one I mentioned, “protection from invasion.” The actual text of the US Constitution, Article 4, Section 4 is as follows:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a
Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them
against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of
the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against
domestic Violence.
AZ in particular could claim invasion; there are whole areas in AZ that are “Off Limits” because the Mexican drug-gangs are operating there. Let me repeat that: there are places in Arizona where a Citizen cannot go because of the activities of foreign nationals!
Now, what would you say is some upstanding General somewhere said “enough of this crap!” and ordered his men to Arizona’s southern border for battle?
Would he be doing his duty? Or would he be overstepping his authority?
Would he be crazy, and “provoking a war”? Or would he be upholding his oath to the Constitution?