Posted on 06/20/2012 6:59:50 PM PDT by Mozilla
On Face the Nation on Sunday, Mitt Romney said that if elected president he wouldn't have to get congressional permission for a military strike on Iran.
To quote him directly (emphasis added):
I can assure you if I'm president, the Iranians will have no question but that I will be willing to take military action if necessary to prevent them from becoming a nuclear threat to the world. I don't believe at this stage, therefore, if I'm president that we need to have a war powers approval or special authorization for military force. The president has that capacity now. I understand that some in the Senate for instance have written letters to the president indicating you should know that a containment strategy is unacceptable. We cannot survive a course of action which would include a nuclear Iran we must be willing to take any and all actions.
All those actions must be on the table.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Sorry, did not say what I meant to.
“Only that the notion that until recently only Congress could authorize the use of force is not historically accurate.”
What I meant to say was.
“Only that the notion that until recently a formal Declaration of War was required to authorize the use of force is not historically accurate.”
On what authority are we allowed to invade a sovereign nation?
Abdul Hakim Belhaj is an islamist with ties to al-Qaeda. Some success. We replace our enemies with even worse enemies.
Abdul Hakim Belhaj is an islamist with ties to al-Qaeda. Some success. We replace our enemies with even worse enemies.
“On what authority are we allowed to invade a sovereign nation?”
Muammar Gaddafi was our enemy. He was responsible for the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing and 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
President Reagan ordered the bombing of Libya in 1986.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Libya_(1986)
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