Posted on 04/30/2003 1:15:24 PM PDT by alwaysconservative
Judge Rejects Suit Against Bush Over War
The Associated Press Wednesday, April 30, 2003; 12:53 PM
LINCOLN, Neb. - A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former congressman alleging that President Bush violated the 1973 War Powers Act by attacking Iraq.
Former Rep. Clair Callan had no legal standing to file the court action and failed to show that he would be personally injured by Bush's actions, U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf ruled.
The judge also said the issues raised involved foreign policy and military decisions that are outside the jurisdiction of the judicial branch.
Callan, 82, said he might appeal.
"All I ever wanted, and all I want right now, is that this president or any other president cannot preemptively strike another nation," he said.
The Nebraska Democrat, who served in the House from 1965 to 1967, also has said he filed the suit because he was troubled by his own reluctance to oppose the Vietnam War while he was in Congress.
© 2003 The Associated Press
He was "troubled" by his own inaction, so he sues about somebody else's action? Only a Dem is this dim!
Oh, sure. There was a Democrat President then, and a Republican now. That difference is the source of his sudden "moral courage." Did he also file suit over Kosovo?
Well, you're not going to get it, so you might as well call Dr. Kevorkian and start the process of quitting while you're behind.
This guy is obviously without any attention from anyone, so that, like Clinton, he has to invent things to be insulted by.
The 89th Congress passed nearly everything Johnson proposed: Medicare, Medicaid, the Voting Rights Act, the Older Americans Act, urban-mass-transit and clean-water legislation, the laws that created two new cabinet departments (first Housing and Urban Development, then Transportation), and more. And though Johnson had run as the peace candidate, the 89th even acceded to his escalation of the war in Vietnam, accepting his claim that the real purpose of every new battalion and bombing raid was to hasten the coming of peace. They bought the whole hog and defined the term "pork".
Yep.
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