I believe that congress gave Bush the authority last fall. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 8:17 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: WOW?
Well After Vietnam now a president can only deploy troops for what 90 days without congressional approval and they approved use of force on iraq. So techincally this is just a CONFLICT not a war, but war and conflict are pretty much a matter of the piece of paper for the declaration of war i would suppose but i could be wrong. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Graeme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 9:01 AM Subject: RE: WOW? Bush can't even go to war right. ;) Here's an honest question, though I suspect there won't be a concise answer. My understanding of the Constitution is that the President can't declare war. Only Congress has that power. So how is it that we are going in considering I haven't heard Congress explicitly approve this war? -Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:01 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: WOW? > > > T minus 48 hours (from 8:00 PM last night) until we take the gloves off. > > Kind of disturbing really. I mean the whole idea of fighting a > war this way > is really alien to me. We were always taught that force > protection and not > letting anyone know who what where or when were very important. I mean as > it sits now you can go in any major news outlet's web site and > get an order > of battle for our forces, locations, key officers. It's insane from an > intelligence perspective. > > Another thing that bothered me was what some of the talking heads > had to say > about the coming conflict. They had a retired general on NBC right after > his speech who didn't think that the coming battle was any big deal. He > though that we would just sweep right through Iraq and be done with it. > Guess he never went on a patrol in a city. > > Don't misconstrue this to mean that I am against this action > completely. I > have some issues with it (most notably that no war is being > declared, and I > don't think that congress has the constitutional ability to hand off that > responsibility to the president). However now that we are there, now that > the decision has been made, we need to stop debating this as a country and > support our troops. > > BTW how has the commute been this morning for all the DC members? All the > roads around here are closed down for the moron on the tractor at > the mall. > I just wonder why they haven't tazed the kid and pulled him off > the tractor. > > Tim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Smyth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:11 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: WOW? > > > what did hw say, i missed it > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 March 2003 12:08 > To: CF-Community > Subject: WOW? > > > I come in this morning and see NO topics about dubyas talk last > night? Man i > was waiting and waiting and then finally there it was what i knew > would pop > out....the hitler reference :) > > > -- > Bill Wheatley > Senior Database Developer > Macromedia Advanced Coldfusion 5 Developer > Ediets.com > ICQ - 417645 > Aim - Bill Ediets > 954-360-9022 x159 > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
