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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (37460)	8/13/2002 3:04:37 AM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I pretty much agree Nadine, with how it will be. Most of my meaning in the term 'extralegal' refers to my conviction that it's a time to honor Constitutional law, asking Congress for a declaration of war, even if the vote results are kept secret till the first shots are fired. The expedience of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was due to a situation that seemed to require haste. In this event, we are trying to make a case to Iraq and other Middle East countries hostile to us that democracy, freedom and justice are empowering and beneficial to the citizenry. It's much harder to convince anyone if we extend beyond Constitutional law and decide autocratically to follow a group of mostly appointed men (who've spent the last year making a corpse of habeus) into a war that has good odds of punishing an already beleagured citizenry while Saddaam & Co gain asylum elsewhere, or disappear into the hinterlands of N. Pakistan. I'm still kinda proud of our Constution & Bill of Rights and think it oughta be given a walk in the park now and then, so its legs don't wither.

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