[abclily]

Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.(Abraham Lincoln)

[Grut]

Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.(Abraham Lincoln)

The problem being that we aren't 'at war'. We may need to be, Congress may have passed laws which in detail are indistinguishable from our being at war, but it has not uttered the magic phrase "a state of war exists," and no one else -- not you, not me, not the President and not the Court -- is Constitutionally empowered to 'declare' us to be at war.

This isn't a quibble: being at war gives the government extraordinary powers and those powers ought to be explicitly implemented by a Congress which is willing to take responsibility for them.

[Keith]

"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.(Abraham Lincoln) "

And he should know what he's talking about. After former Ohio Cong. Clement Vallandigham gave yet another speech critical of the US effort to win the Civil War and appease the rebels of the South, Lincoln commuted a prison sentence proscribed by a military court and banished Vallandigham to the South.

Do you think we could send Teddy to Syria or Iran?

[de Buillion]

"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.(Abraham Lincoln) "

AMEN!