Comments on: War Critics Question Obama's Fervor

Washington Post: Some Say Senator's Actions On Iraq War Don't Match Talk

[antoniof123]

So the administration won''t budge well in 2008 it will budge and so will the GOP they will budge from having a say in congress to having none. Within a few months into 2008 they will be running for cover but this time they will know that when you do not listen to America you will pay the price.

[conserva-2009]

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[tbweb]

I was thinking about the AIDS virus. The AIDS virus will go down in history as one of the trickiest, slickest, deadliest and most elusive and evasive super germ ever. It''s ability to change on the fly like a chameleon, stay alive and avoid being killed by attackers is legendary. No matter what is tried or attempted it lives, it survives and the killing goes on unabated to the frustration of us all.

[middleman8]

The republicans have yet to learn what the whole world knows.
That g. bush strategy is like a dog chasing its tail, going in circles, going nowhere, accomplishing nothing.

[homespunlady]

Which First Lady backed a campaign that coined the phrase "JUST SAY NO!"
Apparently, it''s just as effectively followed by Congress as it was by young girls.

[homespunlady]

From above:
"It''s very difficult to force a president, once you''ve given him power to go to war, to get him to change," said Lawrence Korb, a former Reagan Defense Department official now at the liberal Center for American Progress. "It''s almost impossible for Congress to do that."

I believe our Founding Fathers had the answer.
Maybe bringing back REAL Education rather than taxpayer funded, mass entertaining, babysitting and "standarized tests" to track the regurgitation by our young of the latest propaganda might help fix that problem.

[donnie900]

This is not a democracy. This is a Republic! And the media proves it.

[donnie900]

I believe that a President should be able to declare war. That that should be an executive privilege. An executive duty. "Commander and Chief of these Armed Forces". Congress is full of bickering and petty personal conflicts. Better the illness and conscience of a war be a thing schizophrenic, and of the soul.. than just a mere talking point.

[donnie900]

Well, isn''t it the "special ops" argument? A horse and buggy "special ops"? True that the President is one man. But also true is that no other one man in all the world is under more scrutiny by so many people.

How many of your Congressman are corrupt? How many of your local Congressman and Congresswomen? And because you choose to place so much sardonic attentions on what could be a valid excuse for a war but that you won''t let be a valid excuse for a war, they get away with everything.

[homespunlady]

Love that record POPPY Crop in Afghanistan. Heroin and Viagra for everybody! NOT!!!

Reconstituted Taliban, health spa improvements for the relative of the Bush family friends - the BIN LADENS.

Record obscene profits for the War Profiteers.
Record widening of the asset gap between the rich and the rest of us.
Record lengthening of combat tours for the members of the US military.

The neocons haven''t stopped dancing in the streets and probably won''t until the world wakes up to a global Hangover that will take decades to recover from.
UK having bank runs, incomprehensible levels of debt, the incredible shrinking Middle Class, threats of loss of technological control, increasingly unstable weather, earthquake and volcanic instability all add up to HUGE warning signs.

Nothing like walking the train tracks with earphones on turned up loud enough to NOT hear the oncoming train.

[myidoncbs]

donnie900 says, "Whats all this gonna do to America when... the war powers of the president are really needed because we''re under attack and Congress can''t decide to declare war."

The Framers of the Constitution of the United States, the Founding Fathers, specifically chose to give the power to make war to the Congress, not to the President. They did this because Kings use their armies for personal vendettas (like little Georgie attacking Iraq to "get even with Saddam for trying to kill my daddy"). If the country is under attack, Congress is not going to fail to declare war. A single, very flawed, human being should not have the power to commit the armed forces of the United States to eternal warfare.

BushWorld is the antithesis of the rule of law. King George rules by decree, not by law. Our "freedom" is subject to his whim, so we are not free. We are not a democracy. We are not America any more. With a single act of a few lunatics, wielding box cutters, and the willing over-reaction by our president and his loyal subjects, OBL has destroyed this nation.

"The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave" is no more. The people wish to be slaves once again.

[homespunlady]

Hmm...Osama''s well rested and is busily working at his NEW film studio paid for by Sunni backers (family?) out of Saudi since George has followed a minimal manning drawdown in the country that harbored the people that attacked us - AFGHANISTAN!

But FINALLY a pageant contestant has SOLVED the mystery of WHY we''re in IRAQ - George Doesn''t have a MAP and thinks like THIS - "like and uh Afghanistan, yeah is like Iraq and uh they''re the SAME PLACE like uh and stuff and OSAMA IS uh SADDAM like - oh heck gimme another drink or uh coke or uh yeah..."

[myidoncbs]

Another approach, the one that the p*ssies are really afraid of, but which is absolutely necessary for the survival of this once-great nation, is to IMPEACH CHENEY AND BUSH for the appalling HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS that they have already committed. Sure, they''ll whine, "we don''t have the votes," but if the house started having impeachment hearings on TV 24x7, and the people of this country could see and hear direct testimony on the far reaching violations of the Constitution of the United States, then the people would demand that congress force these two miscreants out of office and send them to prison.

Pick the right thing to do, and the people will follow. Pick the wrong thing to do, and you let the weasels win.

IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY. THEY ARE THE ENEMY OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THEY ARE THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.

[donnie900]

Whats all this gonna do to America when it really has to defend itself? I mean, when the war powers of the president are really needed because we''re under attack and Congress can''t decide to declare war. Probably the real reason why the framers figured a president should have war powers.

Whats going to happen when this country really has to defend itself? And its not just some phony baloney making stuff up, being the exception and not the rule, and taking away an honest president''s abilities?

[socrates392]

"It''''s very difficult to force a president, once you''''ve given him power to go to war, to get him to change," said Lawrence Korb, a former Reagan Defense Department official now at the liberal Center for American Progress. "It''''s almost impossible for Congress to do that."

Wait, when did the congress declare war on Iraq? I don''t remember a formal declaration of war.

[samthetvcat]

"It''s very difficult to force a president, once you''ve given him power to go to war, to get him to change," said Lawrence Korb, a former Reagan Defense Department official now at the liberal Center for American Progress. "It''s almost impossible for Congress to do that."

What''s the deal with the Washington Post, are they owned by Rupert Murdoch too?

If Webb''s bill passes, then isn''t that the first one to do so? They need to just keep plugging away trying different things because they''re obviously making headway. Reframing it in terms of troop rest, demanding accountability reports, etc.