Posted on 03/13/2003 4:03:27 AM PST by Cacophonous
If by "they" you mean Congress you are exactly correct.
And, as a practical matter, they cannot cut off funding to our troops when they ar engaged in combat.
Please read my post #16 to understand what Congress has not done.
HEROES DEFEND THE USA AND CONSTITUTION
ZEROES HELP THE ENEMIES OF THE US MORE THAN DRIVERS OF SUVs
HEROES
Circuit Judges Randolph, Williams, and Garland of the
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously ruled.
"No court in this country has jurisdiction to [hear constitutional claims of] the Guantanamo detainees,
even if they have not been adjudicated enemies of the United States".
HERO
Chief Judge William Young, First Circuit: "We are not afraid of any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid ...
"You’re a big fellow. But you’re not that big. You’re no warrior. I know warriors....
You are a terrorist, a species of criminal guilty of multiple attempted murders."
To call you a soldier gives you far too much stature. You are a terrorist, and we do not negotiate with terrorists.
We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice. ...
"See that flag, Mr. Reid? That is the flag of the United States of America That flag will fly there long after this is long forgotten."
HEROES
4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the status of 22-year-old Yaser Esam Hamdi
as a citizen did not change the fact he was captured in Afghanistan while fighting with Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists.
HERO
Judge John Bates ruled lawmakers lacked standing to bring the case to stop withdrawal
from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty because it is a political matter, not judicial.<>
HEROES:
The U.S. Supreme Court ending misuse of public funds
and a coup by Mary Frances Berry (D, US Commission of Civil Rights).
HEROES:
Judges Guy Jr., Leavy, Silberman - Expanded wiretap guidelines do not violate the Constitution
HEROES:
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - Court blocks legal challenge to detention of Afghan war prisoners
HEROES:
Rebecca W. Watson, Assistant Interior secretary and those who reversed
the Clinton administration's decision to deny approval of a power source
obtained from tapping into hot water beneath the surface of the Medicine Lake caldera,
a 6-mile-by-4-mile remnant of a collapsed volcano in the Modoc National Forest.
48-megawatts will now be produced.
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT BY ZEROES
ZEROES:
In Boston, the federal appeals court
[normally devoted to protecting and defending drug companies
like Schering-Plough, which fund the court with $$$$$ and junkets for judges]
reversed a reasonable denial by (hero) federal Judge Tauro
who threw out a complaint by "peace" protesters against President Bush
as he works around the clock with the valiant US military to protect America after 911.
This is the same court which also removed a picture of President Bush from the court's walls,
even though Clinton's remained.
ZERO:
In Los Angeles, US District Judge Robert Takasugi of Los Angeles issued a preliminary
injunction blocking enforcement of the US citizenship requirement for airport guards.
ZEROES:
In Washington, US Federal Circuit Appellate Judges Clevenger, Friedman and Prost
turn down an Appeal accompanied by evidence of usurping US Constitution and US energy security.by the US Patent Office.
The Court inaccurately purported that measuring energy output has "no utility" for the USA
even as the USA is at War and greatly and urgently needs energy sources.
To cover it up, amicus curiae were gagged who would have testified that the Patent Office misquoted them.
[Meanwhile, the US Patent Office under Q. Todd Dickenson continued to issue patents using
astrology to predict lottery numbers, claiming that in contrast to energy patents,
astrology and lottery predictions of the future have unique "operability" and "utility"].
ZEROES:
In San Francisco, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says in Silviera v. Lockyer,
that "the Second Amendment does not confer an individual right to own or possess arms."
The "War Powers Act" is unconstitutional.
There are (at least two) "war powers". The first, the power to command the Army and the Navy, is assigned to the President in Article II, section 2 and is not subject to Congressional review. This power is sufficient to engage in combat against our enemies and the purported limitation on this power by the WPA is an obvious nullity, as it would (if taken seriously) amend Article II, section 2.
The second "war power" is the power to commit all the resources of the nation to victory. This power is assigned to Congress in Article I, section 8. The President cannot commit the resources of the nation to victory, because he can only command such armed forces as Congress has designated and provided for. To pretend, as Lyndon Johnson did, that his role as CINC allowed him to act in the name of the nation, is a fraud and would in effect amend Article I, section 8.
We must demand that Congress declare war in our name. Only We the People have the power to do this, and we delegated it to Congress in 1788.
Let's roll.
Good question. A better question is "Where were the Republicans?", the loyal opposition at the time.
Where were they when Clinton was lobbing missles (the military kind)?
Come on...pressure your Congresscritter to formally declare war: it is in accordance with the Constitution, and guarantees that the full resources of the nation are devoted to the effort (as Jim Noble has so eloquently explained).
As an aside, the Constitution says nothing about the UN, but it is depressing that our President is more concerned about UN approval than abiding by the Constitution.
What does it say? It says Congress shall have the power "To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water..."
That's pretty broad. The President went to the Congress asking for "letters of Marque and Reprisal," which were granted by Congress.
They made Rules concening Captures on Land and Water (through a defense authorization bill).
People like you are just WEIRD to me.
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