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Originally Posted by TSGracchus
I'm going to disagree with you here, PC. There's nothing in the document that says the Congress has to call a declaration of war with those words. The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, and puts some teeth in it by giving Congress authorization over funding, so that the president can't wage war (at least not for long) without Congressional approval. But there's nothing saying what form a declaration of war has to take, only that Congress gets to do it.
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The Constitution gives Congress the power to "declare" war, like in a decalaration, not to "resolve" to go to war, like in a resolution, there's a difference between the two. And besides, nowhere in the Iraq Resolution was the word war even mentioned.
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I don't like this war. I agree it's preemptive and that's wrong. It's against everything our country has ever stood for. It sets a very bad, very dangerous precedent. And purely from a strategic standpoint, it's just plain totally godawful stupid. But I don't think it's unconstitutional, and we can't blame Bush solely for the disaster, although it's fine to give him the bulk of the blame. He couldn't have done it if Congress hadn't given the go-ahead. So it's their fault, too.
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100% agree, the Republican congress that approved the war, and the Republican president who waged it need to both own up to the fact that they betrayed their conservative and constitutional values.