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Splain' it to me, Loosey

In light of the recent decision by al-SCOTUS

Run it by me again… why didn’t we just declare war on Sept 12?

Can we do it now?

1. We sorta did. Congress voted overwhelmingly - both D and R - to give the war a go-ahead.  They didn’t actually say “declare war” - nobody’s used that tired old phrase since the 1800s - but they did say it was OK to escort Mr Saddam from his seat by whatever means necessary.

   One lawyer type on Volokh says that the administration made a big mistake by not getting Congress to authorize things like tribunals, locking ‘em up and throwing away the key, &c.  I think he has a good point.

   Posted by ZZMike  on  06/30/06  at  03:58 PM

2. I really like Rush’s thoughts on this:
   RUSH: Yeah. That’s what I thought. Wanted to make sure I understood you correctly. I’m going to go out on a limb here. I’m going to go out on a limb and I’m not buying the conventional wisdom we were all unified after 9/11. What I think happened was that people who today are opposing the effort only were saying what they thought they had to say at the time and do what they had to do at the time, but I’m not sure that there was ever real unity on this. But let’s say I’m wrong. Very rare for that to be the case, but let’s say I’m wrong, let’s say there was unity. Then what happened to it? It was never destined to last long anyway because the Democrats hated George W. Bush because of the Florida aftermath. They thought an election had been stolen from them. I don’t care what anybody will tell you, even after 9/11, the first thing they were doing after 9/11 was finding a way to make this a problem for Bush. Now, they put forth the image of unity, but they saw a huge opportunity, and then they got alarmed because they saw Bush come alive.

   They saw Bush make an immediate transformation and become someone that they didn’t think that he was. And so they had to go along with the efforts that he was mounting in order to take action against the perpetrators of this and to see to it that it didn’t happen again. Then I guess, Adam, the next thing that happened along these lines was Iraq, and when the president started talking about Iraq, that’s when the Democrats made their move. Well, not at first. Democrats were all for Iraq in 2002. They couldn’t wait to have another resolution. But it’s like Karl Rove says, Democrats will be there when the bullets start to fly, but when the going gets tough in the foxhole, they’ll abandon you.

   Posted by Sierrahome  on  07/01/06  at  04:27 AM

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