Thats why when you are dragging the country into a war, you make sure you are communicating with the senior members of the senate, to make sure you aren't promising or threatening something you can't back up.
they were undone when Cruz began declaring that bombing the Syrian regime would mean make the United States “al Qaeda’s air force.”
Which, as it turns out, would have been true. As it is, we armed Al Qaeda's crazier brothers and turned them loose on the region. Its funny; a few years ago Dems used to repeat endlessly that "we armed Bin Ladin" in Afghanistan, but fail to notice that we really did arm ISIS.
Not according to several freepers that screamed and denied any such thing just a few days back. Strangely I have heard little from them since the Pentagon admitted it.
The President doesn’t need Congressional authorization to drop bombs— witness Bill Clinton taking out camels and an aspirin factory to get Monica off the front page.
As always, Sen. Cruz cut to the heart of the issue when he called it a “public relations” ploy—