[IrishMike]

Excellent Article.

[mewzilla]

To understand why the Founders put war powers in the hands of the Presidency, look no further than the current spectacle in Congress on Iraq.

Amen.

[tiredoflaundry]

PING!

[MadIvan]

The Senate may not have the power to do it, but it has nevertheless damaged America's image. It's really unfortunate that the Senate did this on the same day that your Ambassador asked Britain to keep troops in Iraq; with the government squabbling and bickering like it is the request is uncertain in purpose and duration.

Regards, Ivan

[Peelod]

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[kittymyrib]

I would be very ashamed of my senator if he voted to cut and run. Every patriot who has such a quisling "representative" should be on the phone every day to his office telling him that he is giving aid and comfort to America's enemies. Friends of ours just lost a member of their family in the helicopter crash last Sat. in Iraq. He will have died for nothing if Hagel and Biden have their way.

[cloud8]

I am glad at least Paul Gigot has his head screwed on straight and realizes the stakes involved. It isn't the President who has lost credibility, it's Congress. 535 prima donnas.

[SMARTY]

The 'politicians' in Congress are behaving themselves just like whores in this whole thing. The ONLY people with any integrity and resolve in the WOT have been Dick Cheney and George Bush.

No one else could absolutely be relied upon for unalloyed commitment and unwavering determination in the US Coalition effort to stay the course.

The MSM and the Liberals in this country and worldwide, have shown NO objectivity in their view or their understanding of events and deliberately try to cut the ground out from under honest and courageous people who see the danger and have staked their personal and professional careers on the success of our policies and efforts. If the Dixie Chics are ashamed of President Bush, think how all the rest of us feel about the Congress of the US!

[Spok]

It would make an interesting topic for a doctoral thesis to study all American wars and the presidents who presided over them, making comparisons of domestic conflicts that ravaged those presidencies. Many wars have been unpopular, including the American Revolution and the Civil War. Popular support, as with WWII, is the exception, not the rule. How many unpopular wars, like the Civil War, were ultimately won because of the president's unwillingness to bend under domestic pressure? And how would history have been changed?

[OpusatFR]

The left doesn't give a rat's behind about the Constitution of the US.

Here's a little summation of the fun and games coming up on February 7:

"Global Constitutionalism

February 16-17, 2007
Sponsored by the Stanford Law Review and Stanford Constitutional Law Center

The unifying theme will be the manner in which constitutionalism is developing, and should develop, around the world as viewed from the perspective of the U.S. and other nations with their own proud and distinct constitutional traditions."

http://lawreview.stanford.edu/events/symposium/

Oh yeah, and the usual suspects, Sandra Day O'Connor and friends.

[Rummyfan]

Consider the resolution pushed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday by Joe Biden and Chuck Hagel, two men who would love to be President if only they could persuade enough voters to elect them.

The irony is that neither Biden nor Hagel has a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected President! Yet they are willing to conduct this treasonous aiding-the-enemy vote to further political ambitions! They should be run out of the Capital tarred and feathered!

[EternalVigilance]

One executive that is afraid to exercise his sworn duty: to witness, Terry Schiavo and "Campaign Finance Reform."

535 executive wannabes, too busy trying to be their own little president to attend to the pressing business of the country.

9 robed judicial legislators.

Well, I'm certainly being too harsh, because somewhere in those numbers are a handful who understand the separation of powers, the dangers of the doctrine of judicial supremacy, and the true constitutional role of each branch.

But, this situation is most definitely out of control.

[Rockiette]

Just watched Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Ne) deride the President's plan to send more troops. His mind is a pile of mush, I can't believe people in Nebraska would keep such an unintelligent and uneducated politician as their Senator. He had no answers, only the time worn statement that the Iraqis must "step up" and put Sadr and other insurgents out of business. What the hell does he think the President wants and all the other bright Americans who support our troops. These Senators should, in all haste, be accused of treason and every damn one of them, impeached! This old jackass has, because of his inept laziness and sloppy sense of entitlement, decided to stiff his Country and his Military by throwing around his political weight and continue to side with the anti-American crew of DumbocRATS. By running away from terror, these Senators are damning us to terror in America instead of fighting them over there.

[goldstategop]

What the Senators favored then they oppose now. Life's funny when people who voted for a war duck their responsibility to see it through. Our President isn't doing that precisely because he understands better than any one in America what the consequences of failure would bode for the United States in Iraq.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[AFPhys]

To understand why the Founders put war powers in the hands of the Presidency, look no further than the current spectacle in Congress on Iraq.

BINGO!

[Col Sanders]

Prima facie, the article is incorrect.

The word "war" only appears four times in the Constitution - twice to tell states what they can't do, once to define treason, and once to grant the power to declare war - That power is delegated NOT to the executive, but to the judiciary.

The executive may make war only upon the direction of the legisative branch and he conducts that war at their discretion. To argue otherwise is, to paraphrase many people around here who don't know what they're talking about, to believe that our Constitution is a suicide pact. These people would argue that once a declaration of war is given, it cannot be rescinded unless the president says it's over.

Nothing could be further from the truth, or further from what the founders intended, notwithstanding the opinion of the article's author.

Regards,

Col Sanders

[dr_who_2]

I wonder how much luck Prime Minister Pelosi will have compared to former Prime Minister Newt, even if this is Bush's last two years in office.