>>>> Yes... there's quite a lot the president can do without congress... only >>>> congress can declare war, but that hasn't happened since world war 2.
Hmm, if that is the case, then you are suggesting that Iraq War # 1, #2, Afganistan, Alqaeda were all unilateral actions by the President ? Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] > From: "Mathew Howard" <[email protected]> > To: "af" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 2:08:55 PM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] [WISPA] S'il vous plaît priez pour nos amis français > Yes... there's quite a lot the president can do without congress... only > congress can declare war, but that hasn't happened since world war 2. > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Jeff Broadwick - Lists < [email protected] > > wrote: >> There are a number of actions, under a pretty wide set of circumstances, >> where >> the US President can act without Congressional approval. All Presidents push >> the boundaries. No one really wants to test the Constitutionality of the War >> Powers Act (it's likely unconstitutional). >> Jeff Broadwick >> ConVergence Technologies , Inc. >> 312-205-2519 Office >> 574-220-7826 Cell >> [email protected] >> On Nov 16, 2015, at 1:47 PM, Faisal Imtiaz < [email protected] > >> wrote: >>> You are half correct. There a number of small facts that you have missed, >>> but if >>> you follow the explanation, rightfully so. >>> News organizations are in the business of making $. The only report what >>> they >>> can sell in that particular market. e.g CNN supplies news feeds to the >>> world, >>> it's just not the same news feed that they supply to everyone. News feed, >>> for >>> the US is very different what they supply to their 'international customers' >>> This is true for all of the news broadcasters. >>> BTW, Al Jazeera has been kicked out of many 'Muslim' countries due to their >>> coverage and reporting. >>> BBC is commissioned by Her Majesty, as such the loyalty to the British >>> Empire... >>> Here is the part that I don't understand...... >>> Everything that I know about the US Gov. System, when it comes to foreign >>> policy >>> the President cannot take uni-lateral action...it has to have the Congress's >>> blessing.. >>> So why is it when one is talking about the US's actions, everyone refers to >>> it >>> as if the US President is acting like any of the other dictators. >>> Is is just a way to dump on a President cause he or she is from the other >>> party >>> ? >>> Last time I checked, irrespective of all the rhetoric from Washington, all >>> parties were equally responsible for participating in actions which have >>> lead >>> to Foreign Policy failure after failure... >>> Regards. >>> Faisal Imtiaz >>> Snappy Internet & Telecom >>> 7266 SW 48 Street >>> Miami, FL 33155 >>> Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 >>> Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] >>>> From: "Rory Conaway" < [email protected] > >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 12:44:40 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] [WISPA] S'il vous plaît priez pour nos amis français >>>> News as a disinterested third party, is pretty much dead. All news >>>> organizations >>>> have a political leaning including BBC, Al Jazeera, and NPR. In many cases >>>> it’s >>>> not what they report, it’s what they fail to report that is just as bad or >>>> worse. BBC rarely reports anything negative about the British Government >>>> and is >>>> as bad as the New York Times about not reporting anything negative about a >>>> Democrat. Of course both of them do it, but the amount of time or the >>>> amount of >>>> resources will be far less than the opposite side of the side of the >>>> issue. Al >>>> Jazeera never reports anything bad about the Muslim or Islamic faith and >>>> NPR is >>>> almost as bad as the BBC when it comes to never saying anything about a >>>> liberal >>>> government. I think NBC, CBS, and ABC have the same advisor telling them >>>> what >>>> negative information not to report on Obama for example. As for NPR, they >>>> lost >>>> all credibility with me when they fired Juan Williams because he said >>>> something >>>> their management didn’t like and he is a huge liberal. >>>> There is an argument now that Google can pretty much influence an election >>>> by a >>>> huge amount by pushing positive news information in their search engine >>>> about >>>> their liberal candidate up while simultaneously doing the same thing in a >>>> negative light towards a Conservative candidate. >>>> At this point, it’s pretty much up to us to watch news organizations from >>>> both >>>> sides of the aisle and try to sort out the truth. >>>> Rory >>>> From: Af [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Paul McCall >>>> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 8:11 AM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] [WISPA] S'il vous plaît priez pour nos amis français >>>> +1. Since we have a pretty good idea of what slant that CNN and Foxnews >>>> will put >>>> on things without looking, respectively, I just glance at that both once >>>> in a >>>> while. BBC is a good choice. >>>> Paul >>>> From: Af [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown >>>> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 9:34 AM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] [WISPA] S'il vous plaît priez pour nos amis français >>>> BBC is good. Al Jazeera is surprisingly informative and seems to lack spin. >>>> I listen to NPR continually. >>>> Card carrying GOP but am truly libertarian, cannot vote demo primarily due >>>> to >>>> guns and the abortion issue. >>>> Fox news is like eating a whole bag of halloween candy. After watching fox >>>> I >>>> have to watch some Rachael Maddow to be able to drive straight again. >>>> (In reality, I avoid TV news. Radio and Google News is were most of my >>>> disinformation comes from). >>>> I don’t like apologists, religious or otherwise. I like the best truths I >>>> can >>>> find. >>>> I really hate partisan politics. Blood sport all based on pride and self >>>> aggrandizement. Does nothing for the people. >>>> From: Glen Waldrop >>>> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 7:20 AM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG][WISPA] S'il vous plaît priez pour nos amis français >>>> You're right on one thing, politics is not as cut and dried as all of that. >>>> Obama is a jackass. >>>> Fox news is far from perfect. >>>> As a businessman though I recommend not calling your potential customers >>>> dumb >>>> though. Fox may be a group of liars, but at this point in time they are the >>>> least biased news source in the US (50% biased vs 100%). Pretty much all >>>> of the >>>> rest of them are brown nosing the left so bad I can't see how they haven't >>>> suffocated themselves. >>>> When I want news with little BS I tend to lean towards BBC myself. >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: Patrick Leary >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 7:24 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG][WISPA] S'il vous plaît priez pour nos amis français >>>>> The world is such a simple place when everything is Obama’s fault. >>>>> Somebody smashes a glass to the ground. 12 years later, people blinded by >>>>> partisanship blame the person who tried to glue some of the pieces back >>>>> together, but the glass still won’t hold water so it must be his fault. >>>>> Extremely disordered cognitive functioning. >>>>> …Never mind the real subtleties all the “informed” people on the Right >>>>> seem to >>>>> forget, chief among them that the IRAQI POLITICIANS SAID THE ONLY WAY WE >>>>> COULD >>>>> KEEP OUR TROOPS IN COUNTRY WAS TO REMOVE THEIR IMMUNITY AND MAKE THEM >>>>> SUBJECT >>>>> TO LIABILITY AND PROSECUTION. No one on this side of the pond wanted >>>>> that, from >>>>> the DoD to BOTH parties. Of course, FOX viewers either are too dumb to >>>>> know >>>>> this or intentionally pretend that was not the reality, in order to take >>>>> yet >>>>> another “it’s Obama’s fault” grade school insult. It’s just way more >>>>> satisfying >>>>> or simpler for their juvenile world view to believe “it’s Obama’s fault!” >>>>> What, >>>>> are you 10 years old? >>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/world/middleeast/iraqis-say-no-to-immunity-for-remaining-american-troops.html?_r=0 >>>>> People really need to educate themselves before spewing childish partisan >>>>> memes. >>>>> Patrick >>>>> From: Af [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Rory Conaway >>>>> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2015 8:53 AM >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] [WISPA] S'il vous plaît priez pour nos amis français >>>>> We had our chance to stop it in Iraq, we cut and run. >>>>> And you are right, we didn’t do the right bombing in Vietnam to stop that >>>>> war. >>>>> And what Ford did at the end is the lesson Obama should have learned which >>>>> could have prevented much of what happened in the Middle East including >>>>> ISIS. >>>>> Apparently they didn’t teach history to at Harvard. Imagine the influence >>>>> a >>>>> multi-cultural and stable Iraqi government would have had on the region. >>>>> Rory >>>>> From: Af [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Lewis Bergman >>>>> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2015 6:31 AM >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] [WISPA] S'il vous plaît priez pour nos amis français >>>>> Collateral damage is highly underrated. Vietnam had no wholesale bombing >>>>> like >>>>> WWII. that is one reason Vietnam, and the rest of these conflicts, last so >>>>> long. >>>>> The horror of war has to be brought to everyone, including those making >>>>> the >>>>> decisions, to bring it to an end. >>>>> But having said that, this Muslim extremists movement has been been going >>>>> on for >>>>> about 700 years so it may be to much to expect to be out of war again. >>>>> There >>>>> may be a lull, but I think the entire world has been drawn into the >>>>> middle East >>>>> quagmire. >>>>> The primary cause damn sure isn't a two degrees warming tend in a couple >>>>> decades. >>>>> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015, 7:05 AM Rory Conaway < [email protected] > >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> The problem is that they are basically imbedded with civilians. How do >>>>>> you kill >>>>>> them without taking out everyone else. That is the problem we have had >>>>>> all >>>>>> along. Door-to-door warfare is all that you can do but it’s also the most >>>>>> dangerous for our soldiers and nobody is going to allow wholesale >>>>>> bombing like >>>>>> Nixon did in Vietnam. >>>>>> We also burned a lot of good will in all the countries we need to do >>>>>> this with >>>>>> when we got the local civilians to act as translators and informants and >>>>>> abandoned them after the war, the highest profile of them the doctor in >>>>>> Pakistan. Even he is still in jail years later but the reality is, nobody >>>>>> trusts us any more in those regions. We are not a reliable ally. >>>>>> Rory >>>>>> From: Af [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of Jaime Solorza >>>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 11:06 AM >>>>>> To: Animal Farm < [email protected] > >>>>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] [WISPA] S'il vous plaît priez pour nos amis français >>>>>> as much as i hate war and killing....I agree we need to make a parking >>>>>> lot out >>>>>> of them... >>>>>> Jaime Solorza >>>>>> Wireless Systems Architect >>>>>> 915-861-1390 >>>>>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Chuck McCown < [email protected] > wrote: >>>>>>> The more of this that happens, the more the rest of the world will >>>>>>> unite to rub >>>>>>> them out. I am a hopeless optimist. >>>>>>> From: Jaime Solorza >>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 7:52 AM >>>>>>> To: Animal Farm >>>>>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG][WISPA] S'il vous plaît priez pour nos amis français >>>>>>> Yes. I am praying for them and the world. What a tragedy.. It is beyond >>>>>>> barbaric..its evil for the sake of evil. >>>>>>> Jaime Solorza >>>>>>> On Nov 13, 2015 10:15 PM, "Faisal Imtiaz" < [email protected] > >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> Oui , et pas seulement cela , nos cœurs et nos prières pour tous ceux >>>>>>>> qui sont >>>>>>>> touchés par cette Sensless actes brabaric . >>>>>>>> Faisal Imtiaz >>>>>>>> Snappy Internet & Telecom >>>>>>>> 7266 SW 48 Street >>>>>>>> Miami, FL 33155 >>>>>>>> Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 >>>>>>>> Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] >>>>>>>>> From: "Patrick Leary" < [email protected] > >>>>>>>>> To: "WISPA General List" < [email protected] >, "Telrad List" < >>>>>>>>> [email protected] >, [email protected] , [email protected] >>>>>>>>> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 7:46:29 PM >>>>>>>>> Subject: [WISPA] S'il vous plaît priez pour nos amis français >>>>>>>>> Tonght, chaque personne libre est un Parisien. >>>>>>>>> Patrick Leary >>>>>>>>> Telrad >>>>>>>>> ************************************************************************************ >>>>>>>>> This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by >>>>>>>>> PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & >>>>>>>>> computer >>>>>>>>> viruses. >>>>>>>>> ************************************************************************************ >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> Wireless mailing list >>>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>>>> ************************************************************************************ >>>>> This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by >>>>> PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer >>>>> viruses. >>>>> ************************************************************************************ >>>>> ************************************************************************************ >>>>> This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by >>>>> PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer >>>>> viruses. >>>>> ************************************************************************************
