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WTNH TV ^ | 7/31/02 | puppage

[Puppage]

Should the US Attack Iraq

[Cacophonous]

I think Iraq was forewarned when President Bush mentioned them as being lynchpins in the Axis of Evil. If not sooner.

[Salvation]

I agree something's fishy with the poll results.

DU at work?

[Salvation]

Should the US attack Iraq?
Thank you for participating in our poll. Here are the results so far.
Yes	13%
No	87%

[Puppage]

The Florida Constitution states that the election MUST be certified no later than 1 week from the end of the election. FSC totally disregarded that & gave them more time. Whatever, it's really not importnat now. The welfare of America & it's citizens (whose protection is the governments main job)is what's important, and it's coming under attack.

[DentsRun]

If there is justifiable cause to go into Iraq then let the President come out in public, give a speech explaining those reasons, get a declaration of war from Congress and then let's roll. If he can't or won't do that then I will not blindly back more foreign incursions.

The reason so many Freepers don't want a national or even congressional debate on the wisdom of attacking Iraq is that they're afraid congress (or the American people) won't support such an attack. In other words, they're so scared to death of following the democractic process they want to invest Bush with the right to attack anyone at any time, no questions asked and no interference from congress. There's a name for that kind of system. They had in Germany from the thirties to the mid-forties. I can't imagine though why anyone would want that here.

[Puppage]

America has as many social policies as Canada does, including health care

Yeah, that must be why all the canadian heart patients come here for their operations...because they'd be DEAD if they wait for that wonderful health care system to pencil them in.

[DentsRun]

Or have we glibly quit worrying about the Constitution since so many of President Bush's predecessors, including those with the same last name, never worried about it?

You're right about Bush senior not worrying about congressional authorization to attack Iraq. Then a congressman filed a lawsuit in federal court which forced him to go to congress (he did get authorization, but not by much). If Bush senior got congressional approval become attacking Iraq, there's no reason his son can't follow the same precedent.

[Cacophonous]

...they're so scared to death of following the democractic process they want to invest Bush with the right to attack anyone at any time...

You're almost right. They are scared to death of following the republican process (and I obviously do not mean the GOP) that they want to invest Bush with the right to attack.

If we were concerned about a democratic (again, not the party) system, we would probably have attacked already.

Thank God there are still some vestiges of the Republic left.

[Olydawg]

I has to temporarily join the ranks of losers....:)

O-Tay Winnipeg! These poll results aren't surprising though. They do align themselves perfectly with the radical left that is the northeast.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Of course he told them to beware if they harbored terrorists or were planning on harming Americans. But did you hear him say WHEN? Thats when it would become advance warning, the kind of warning that KILLS our own.

[f.Christian]

bttt

[CapandBall]

The United States has formally declared war only five times: The War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II. In more than 200 other cases, the United States has made war or acted militarily without a formal declaration.

How do you read the Constitution to say that there is an "obligation" to declare war?

[Puppage]

Go back to the aiport,I think there's a flight loaded with illegals that the canadian parliment has give residency status to. And, just for the record...I'm right.

[Cacophonous]

My point is that out of all the little tinpot shitholes in this world that have it in for the US (and that covers a lot of ground), there are many that pose a much bigger threat. China comes to mind.

The justifications for any sort of attack on Iraq range from "they have weapons of mass destruction" (this may be true of Iraq, but we know it's true of a lot of other places, so why aren't they on our shitlist as well?); to "their WMDs can cause another 11 September" (as if nukes had anything to do with 9/11).

And I still say the President is obligated to get a formal Congressional declaration. It's in the Constitution dammit.

[Puppage]

Maybe canada should be on our "list". Beside, I can't stand those geese. Hee hee. BTW, without America, where do you think canada would have between the years 1940-1945? Hummmm?

[Puppage]

3000+ people were MURDERED by those "tinpots". Idiot. Did Russia attack the US with nuclear warheads? NO, they didn't. Did that STOP us from building up our arsenal as if they HAD attacked us? NO