Re: my doubts


fiend999 wrote:
> In article <1130064256.643294.62340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mark
> Fox <mark_fox_@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Rick Hohensee wrote:
> > > In article <11lmofk3ji04t0e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > > Rick Hohensee <humbubba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >In article <DgJ6f.484891$5N3.455454@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > > >Polish Prince \(Szynka\) <wawrzekski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >>You have to look at the war as a good thing and a bad thing.
> > > >>It simplistic, but that is reality.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >I certainly do not. The Iraq war is a disaster, atrocity and disgrace.
> > > >
> > >
> > > And besides which, the VOTE to allow the Iraq war was a disgraceful
> > > abdication of Congressional responsibility...
> >
> > Have you read the Constitution, chump? Congress has never had and is
> > forbidden from having control of the way the war is waged. That power
> > is clearly given to the President.
>
> So you are willing to admit it is Bush's fault that the "war" is going
> so badly. That is progress.
>
> > The power of Congress is limited to
> > declaring war and funding it, which they did in accordance to their own
> > war powers act of 1973.
>
> So when did Congress declare war on Iraq?

Here is all the source material (this assumes that you can read).


First declaration of war against Iraq (Public Law 102-1)
http://www.milnet.com/public-law-102-1.html


The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-338)
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/iraq/libact103198.pdf


Declaration of war against 9/11 terrorists (Public law 107-40)
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_cong_pu...



Second declaration of war against Iraq (Public law 107-243)
http://www.broadbandc-span.org/downloads/hjres114.pdf


UN Security Council resolution 678 authorizing member states to use
"all necessary means" against Iraq to restore peace and security:
http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/1990/scres90.htm


UN Security Council resolution 1441 declaring Iraq in violation of its
obligatons under previous UNSC resolutions and also a threat to peace
and security:
http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/2002/sc2002.htm

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