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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?
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To: Catfish who wrote (13389)8/22/1999 6:16:00 PM
From: chalu2  Read Replies (2) of 13994
 
By the way, Darrell, since you are so concerned about Presidential usurpations of power, what is your opinion about the biggest Presidential usurpation of them all--the power to make and declare War. That is clearly reserved in the Constitution only for Congress. The last President to ask Congress to declare War? Your pal Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941. Since then:

--Three years of bloody war (called a "police action") in Korea. No Declaration of War sought by President Harry S Truman.

--Eight or more terrible years of non-war (500,000 troops fighting at the "high" point) in Vietnam. No Declaration of War sought by President Lyndon Johnson or by President Richard Nixon, the two War Presidents.

--War against Iraq deploys enormous men and armaments, and almost triggers a wider mideast War. No Declaration of War sought by President George Bush.

--War against Serbia. No Declaration of War sought by President William Jefferson Clinton.

So we have at least 4 undeclared police actions that really were wars, presided over by 3 Democrat and 2 Republican Presidents. But the Constitution says only Congress shall have the power to make and declare War. Does this bother you? Were Truman, Johnson, Nixon, Bush and Clinton wrong in conducting wars without Congressional approval? Isn't sending hundreds of thousands of men out possibly to die without a constitutionally-required Congressional declaration more scary to you than a bunch of FBI guys reading the Internet?
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