Posted on 02/15/2003 3:51:16 PM PST by GrandMoM
War is all about oil The Constitution is the basis for all laws in our country. The president must take a constitutional oath: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
The president has declared that he’ll use our armed forces to attack Iraq. This would involve many thousands of soldiers and would mean war by any definition.
Regarding the powers invested in Congress, the Constitution says, "To declare War, grant Letters of Marque. ..." This gives Congress the exclusive right to declare war; no other branch of our government has that right. If the president wants a war with Iraq, he must request it from Congress and Congress must vote. This is the only constitutional way our country can go to war.
If the president starts a war, he’ll be in violation of his oath of office and should be impeached. It’s the duty of all citizens to demand that our Constitution be followed.
North Korea has spit in the president’s face saying "Yes, we have nuclear weapons, yes, we have the missiles to deliver them and yes, we’re going to build more. Oh, by the way, we’re pulling out of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty also."
Our government’s reaction? "Gee, would you like us to send you some money or anything else we can do or you can use?
Have we found Osama? Is al-Qaida vanquished? That’s "almost" two wars being fought concurrently, not resolved, but heck, let’s start another war with Iraq, never mind that North Korea is armed, dangerous and defying the U.S. and U.N., and that we’ve no allies except Tony Blair, who’ll surely be voted out of office due to his support of Bush’s war plans.
The war? It’s all about oil, folks.
JIM PURDY
SANTA CRUZ
Iraqi link a Bush ploy For months, the administration has been embarrassed by the weakness of its case for war. Inspectors have just begun their work. The previous round of inspections — with less strength than this one — destroyed more Iraqi weapons than we destroyed in the 1991 war.
Wouldn’t it be better to let inspectors destroy any possible weapons than to risk having them used against our troops or civilians?
The weakest link in the war case has been any alleged connection between Iraq and al-Qaida.
Now the Bush administration plans to release "new evidence" of an al-Qaida link. A long-time senior member of the House Intelligence Committee who now serves on the 9-11 Commission, Lee Hamilton, says the Bush administration "will look for any kind of evidence to support their premise; I think we have to be skeptical about it." I agree.
Not long ago Bush was heard to say "He tried to kill my father." speaking about Saddam Hussein. Is all this about vindication?
AINE SWEENEY
BEN LOMOND
On the eve of our
I believe this already took place.
....we could go for a walk on the beach and find plenty for him-her to eat!!!
....adding it now would be kind of useless, don't ya think?
The hypocrits didn't say a damn thing when Clink was bombing the hell out of Serbia.
Yeah.....ya did ....
But not for the Message.....
You Needed one for the Replies so far !
The replies from the Freeper " BUSH BOTS "
I voted for him....But MAN am I dissapointed in Him !
.....THUNDER......
Seriously... these fools that think the war (like it will be a war... more like the Mother of all Retreats II - only they'll have no place to hide) is about oil. Whatever.
Now that the G.O.P. is in control of the Senate, I'm waiting for the Alaskan oil fields to be opened up. As I said earlier Bullitt GT loves fuel.
Trajan88; TAMU Class of '88
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