Congress Has Repeatedly Placed Limits On Military Deployments And Funding

So, where are they getting that having the president seek a new war resolution, thus capping what Bush can spend, without close congressional over sight and approval.

It seems to me that the old resolution stopped being legal a very long time ago. The day Saddam was captured, the old war resolution was accomplished and became irrelevent.

The excuses, for war, had either been proven false or had been acccomplshed by December, 2003.

We think there are some cowardly lions on Capitol Hill, who want to dodge responsibility for the continuing crime in Iraq and the national nightmare here.

We want every member of Congress go on record, about the escalation of what is already an illegal war and stopped being in response to a resolution by congress In December 2003.

Think Progress » FACT CHECK: Congress Has Repeatedly Placed Limits On Military Deployments And Funding:

Tomorrow night at 9 p.m. EST, President Bush will address the nation and announce an escalation of the war in Iraq by sending about 20,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq. Can Congress do anything about it?

Some members have claimed that anything other than symbolic action is unconstitutional. Legal scholars on both the left and the right say that’s false. History supports their case.

A new report from the Center for American Progress details how, over the last 35 years, Congress has passed bills, enacted into law, that capped the size of military deployments, prohibited funding for existing or prospective deployment, and placed limits and conditions on the timing and nature of deployments. Some examples: (Click on over^)