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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (51065)	10/11/2002 10:26:21 AM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

The War Powers Act gives Congress the option to delegate war-making powers to the President. The Constitutionality of the act has not been tested in any serious way. However, I think that a literal reading of the Constitution could easily result in a finding that the act does not pass muster. There are practical problems, however, mostly resulting from the fact that war-making was a much more leisurely activity when the Constitution was written. How do you get a timely Congressional declaration if, for example, the Soviet Union had launched a nuclear missile attack on the US and there were 15 minutes in which to decide whether to respond?

To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (51065)	10/11/2002 10:28:48 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.