More Hanoi Jane and war protesters

Comment #4

Rip Snorter — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:30:32 GMT

"Appears that it will take something regrettably more catastrophic than 9-11 to achieve a formal congressional declaration of war." Time will tell. Once we've abandoned the formal document prescribing how the country's supposed to run, everything's up for grabs and nothing much is out of bounds. As for Congress declaring war, it's something the Chief Exec of the nation as to ask them to do, and why he's asking, since he's the one who'd have to execute the war. No... [ More ]

Comment #3

konane — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:10:41 GMT

Appears that it will take something regrettably more catastrophic than 9-11 to achieve a formal congressional declaration of war. However, with suitcase nukes, biologicals, it's entirely possible and being predicted by security experts. History has its lessons but there is no guarantee that if we repeat the same behavior as we have in the past that a similar outcome will occur today. Times have changed dramatically. I'm personally more concerned with c... [ More ]

Comment #2

Rip Snorter — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 01:47:35 GMT

I honestly don't know much about Clinton, nor care. The issue's how people who oppose this war can communicate their opposition to it without doing it through their elected representatives. Evidently you believe they just ought to keep their mouths shut every time a prez decides to go to war, wait until it's all over to decide whether they oppose it, or clamp their lips shut out of fear they'll be thought traitors in the eyes of war lovers. That's not how it's goin... [ More ]

Comment #1

konane — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 23:36:04 GMT

However, al Qaeda isn't a nation so am not sure the constitution provides for declaring war against an ideology with no specific national identity and which is comprised of pockets in various nations. Going back a few years if Cinton had taken bin Laden when he was offered him then we might not have American blood being spilled on this soil or in the Middle East. First article gives a synopsis of what happened, plus on the page of the article there is a live link to... [ More ]

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Rip Snorter — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:39:21 GMT