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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5784)	2/14/2003 7:42:22 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12247

If Congress is behind war plans with Iraq, fine and good. Let them vote a war resolution in accordance with their Constitutional duties and prerogatives. But at present, we have a blurring of separation between branches of government by a Congress split between administration advocates who aspire - in this specific context - to an imperial presidency, and a conflicted and spineless opposition choosing to straddle both sides of a fence: allowing them to, after the fact, claim credit for action or criticize unilateral Executive decisions. The result is vague resolutions authorizing the use of force, at the Executive's soul discretion, that intentionally circumvent the language, reality and gravity of war, and surrender Congress's leadership role as dictated by the Constitution. To shrug this off as a mere technicality seems, to me, quite remarkable. I wonder what other Constitutional dictates can be ignored or muddied without due concern?