Thursday, July 20, 2006

Attack Iran, Ignore the Constitution


Don't do it, Junior.

If you do, you will be one sorry SOB! That is a promise.

Attack Iran, Ignore the Constitution:

During the 2004 election, George W. Bush famously proclaimed that he didn't have to ask anyone's permission to defend America. Does that mean he can attack Iran without having to ask Congress? A new Congressional resolution being drafted by Representative Peter DeFazio, a Democrat from Oregon, can be a vehicle to remind Bush that he can't.
Bush is calling news reports of plans to attack Iran 'wild speculation' and declaring that the United States is on a 'diplomatic' track. But asked this week if his options included planning for a nuclear strike, he repeated that 'all options are on the table.'

The President is acting as if the decisions that may get us into another war are his to make and his alone. So the Iran crisis poses not only questions of military feasibility and political wisdom but of Constitutional usurpation.

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