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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (51065)10/11/2002 10:28:48 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Opportunistic power grab by Cheney. Any other claim is pure smoke screen.

I disagree; it was in response to public demand. The Administration had legal grounds already, based on previous Congressional resolutions and US-Iraq agreements. But it was generally felt that it would have been a power grab by the Commander in Chief to take such a big step without consulting Congress; thus the seeking of new Congressional resolutions.

Declaring war seems to have gone out of style; we never declared war on Iraq in 1990, either.
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