Re: Thoughts on war and peace


"Rumpelstiltskin" <PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9jl3q31c01dm1dve5rrna5iaer8qrim9cu@xxxxxxxxxx
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:27:32 -0800 (PST), mg <mgkelson@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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"Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall
deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so
whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a
purpose, and you allow him to make war at his pleasure...."
--Abraham Lincoln on preemptive war



Excellent quotation! I never saw that one before.

But hasn't the Congress of the United States basically made it just a little bit more simple to do, when they passed the War Powers Act? Haven't our members of Congress allowed that to happen, when they allow a President to go to war with another nation, without a formal declaration of war?

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