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To: Coto
"Please show me where the President has the authority to transfer absolute authority and control of the US Military to some other nation and/or entity??"

This is what makes you an ass, and a propagandist.

The President never "transfers absolute authority and control of the US Military" to anyone, at any time.

Even when he attaches units or individuals to a multi-national task force, he retains command authority. He can order them to come home at any time he so desires.

For troops of the Nations participating in any multi-national joint mission, maintaining autonomy in the field would be fatal, armies need a clear chain of command.

168 posted on 11/01/2002 12:05:26 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez
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To: Luis Gonzalez; Coto
To: Coto
"...The President never "transfers absolute authority and control of the US Military" to anyone, at any time. Even when he attaches units or individuals to a multi-national task force, he retains command authority. He can order them to come home at any time he so desires. For troops of the Nations participating in any multi-national joint mission, maintaining autonomy in the field would be fatal, armies need a clear chain of command.
# 168 by Luis Gonzalez
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What provision of the Constitution gives our President the authority to share his military power with a foreign government?

Yes, armies do need a clear chain of command in time of war. However, we are not at war, and haven't been since the end of World War 2. Every United Nations "police action" that we have ever participated in has been illegal on our part, including the war Bush waged against the nation of Afganistan.

Sending our country into battle on the order of a foreign power is un-Constitutional.

171 posted on 11/01/2002 12:20:18 AM PST by exodus
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To: Luis Gonzalez
"...The President never "transfers absolute authority and control of the US Military" to anyone, at any time..."

Okay Speedy Gonzalez....

Why should he tell our guys to die for some bastard in some other country? ....when they swore to defend the U.S. of A.

184 posted on 11/01/2002 8:46:19 AM PST by Coto
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