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Post by avordvet on Sept 10, 2014 4:37:08 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Sept 11, 2014 4:44:49 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Sept 11, 2014 5:05:03 GMT -5
Once Again Obama Shows That He Is Clueless About What Is Going On In The Middle EastBy Michael Snyder, on September 10th, 2014 Why would Barack Obama want to give hundreds of millions of dollars of weapons to groups inside Syria that are selling weapons to ISIS and regularly fighting alongside them? Is he really that clueless about what is going on in the Middle East? The FSA and other groups of "moderate" fighters inside Syria do not consider ISIS to be an enemy. Rather, they consider ISIS to be an important ally in the struggle to overthrow the Syrian government. In fact, many "moderate" units have actually joined ISIS in recent months. If Obama gives more weapons to the "moderate" fighters in Syria, it is inevitable that a lot of them will end up in the hands of ISIS. In a previous article, I already discussed how ISIS is talking over vast stretches of Syria and Iraq using mostly American weapons. If the Obama administration goes ahead with this plan to arm "moderates" in Syria, it is just going to make ISIS even stronger. theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/once-again-obama-shows-that-he-is-clueless-about-what-is-going-on-in-the-middle-east
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Post by avordvet on Sept 11, 2014 14:35:42 GMT -5
President Obama, only Congress has the power to wage warBy Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, Published September 11, 2014, FoxNews.com James Madison is commonly referred to as the Father of the Constitution in large measure because, in the secrecy of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, he kept the most complete set of notes. He also had a very keen mind and a modest demeanor and an uncanny ability to solidify consensus around basic principles that are woven into the Constitution. After he wrote the Constitution and before he became Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state and eventually a two-term president, he was a congressman from Virginia. When he spoke on the floor of the House, the parts of the Constitution he was most adamant about restrained the president. Chief among those restraints, in Madison’s view, was the delegation to Congress, and not to the president, of the power to wage war. www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/09/11/president-obama-only-congress-has-power-to-wage-war/
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Post by avordvet on Sept 15, 2014 13:59:17 GMT -5
The ISIS Crisis and the Coming TyrannyBy Michael Iachetta, September 15, 2014 Whether or not the U.S. military needs to do something about these atrocities is an excellent question, for the sake of national defense or the protection of the innocent in other countries. But if the answer to that question is yes, the U.S. Constitution requires that the U.S. Congress make a declaration of war. An executive decision on the part of the president to take action in either Syria or Iraq without such a declaration would represent a final transformation of our nation from a constitutional republic to an arbitrary government, acting on the whims of a single man. The present crisis provides a good opportunity to review what the Constitution and the Founders had to say about who has the power to get the U.S. into war. The Constitution itself is straightforward, and would seem to require little elaboration: “The Congress shall have Power…To declare War.” The Founders of the U.S. left us with no doubt that Congress alone has the war power, and left us with plenty of reasons why this power was assigned to Congress not the President. canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/66044
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