[org.whodat]

He is correct, now when will he revoke TARP.

[doc]

Finally a senator with some common sense. This war should never have been started.

[upchuck]

Jim DeMint: serving up platefulls of awesomesauce.

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[GeronL]

Yep. No more nation-building!

Go in and kill the terrorists and leave. Period.

[Olog-hai]

DeMint just voted for Iran to take over Iraq.

[ohioWfan]

I didn't realize there were so many cowards who didn't care about national security who disguise themselves as conservatives.

But I've seen many on FR lately. I guess you can brag about your cowardice if no one knows who you are, eh?

[SharpRightTurn]

Good for DeMint.

And I salute Rand Paul for taking this stand.

[Future Snake Eater]

Now that we’ve withdrawn almost everyone we have there...what a brave stand!

I know, I like DeMint, but excuse me while I stifle a yawn.

[newzjunkey]

President Bush took us to war with Iraq in 2003 in the same extra-constitutional manner: He went to Congress to get “authorization,” but still both Congress and the president apparently thought that the Iraq War wasn’t important enough to merit an official declaration of war, as the Constitution demands.

Setting aside that the constitution used the verb "declare," is there any legal distinction between the "authorization" and a "declaration" in terms of international law or leeway of President has to conduct the war?

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

We shouldn’t be fighting wars anymore. We can’t accept the horrors and realities of war any longer. We don’t accept winning a war at any cost the way wars should be fought. That’s why WW2 was the last war we won decisively, and against an enemy that was much more superior than those we have faced since. It’s not that our military got worse. We have the best trained, and equipped soldiers the world has seen, but they are restricted to a level that’s ridiculous. That’s why we have gotten worse at getting decisive victories since then even though we have faced worse enemies. How many people who talk about our WW2 Veterans being the greatest generation, would be calling our troops today war criminals for fighting the same way?

Even a lot of people on the right wouldn’t except fighting a war like WW2 these days, and that’s why we can’t get what should be small short wars over with like we could before. That’s why we talk of an invasion of Iran like it would be something on scale of invading Germany in WW2; because it would be fought to make it the equivalent even though it wouldn’t have to be. It’s like saying we are going to have peace through strength. It doesn’t work when you fight like we did these two wars. If we had went into Iraq and Afghanistan, and showed our real strength with a brutal and short war that showed our true power then that might have worked. But we can’t accept that civilians get killed in war, and there isn’t anyway to avoid that.

If had went into Iraq and Afghanistan with the mindset we went into WW2 then they would have been wars that were over with, and we would have actually gotten something out of it. Why didn’t we take oil from Iraq? Why did we allow Afghanistan to put the right to murder Muslims who convert to Christianity in their Constitution? I think with a WW2 mindset we would have gotten something out of the wars, and finished them in a short period of time. Instead we fight 10+ year wars with no end in sight, and no one even knowing what the hell we are suppose to be gaining from them anymore. If we can’t fight a total war then it’s not important enough to be fighting.