[DNME]

Wrong, chris. Congress SHOULD be fully invested in any war discussion. (I don’t trust the peckerheads either but follow along.)

Congress has the sole power of declaring war and they should exercise it. No “quickie” invasions or bombing missions. Either declare or step aside. By the same token, Congress should write laws and not just establish new “agencies” that will haunt us with their rules forever.

Either way ... fight or run ... we get to decide whether the clowns got it right or screwed things up. Come election time, we get to weed out the losers. They answer to us and I want MORE things to hold them accountable for.

[Theoria]

A State is the only other power that can get into ‘war’. States have failed to protect their borders from invasion, which they are empowered to do.

[chris37]

Ideally, yes, but in practice the thing doesn’t work that way. It doesn’t work at all.

The body has proven itself to be both useless and evil.

[Jim Noble]

Congress has the sole power of declaring war and they should exercise it

And why?

Because it is the People (House) and the States (Senate) that go to war, and it should be up to them.

Now, chris37, if you think Congress should be done away with temporarily (Sulla), or permanently (Cromwell), I'm 2/3 of the way there.