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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (20613)	3/14/2003 6:07:24 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

The resolution to which you are referring was passed during the last, not the current, Congress. So what??!! It's still in force until the current congress chooses to withdraw it. There's NO TIME LIMIT.. nor should there be since it impacts the President's ability to conduct foreign policy. How many hours has the current Congress spent debating the preemptive force policy and the potential for war on Iraq? Hello???!!! Are you listening?? Can you understand English?? All of that was debated last fall. The authorization to use force DOES NOT RELY upon UN action, or inaction. It's the president's discretion, and they all debated it. You obviously don't recall how some congressional members wanted to wait until after the the UN passed 1441, but that was kicked out as letting the UN decide what US security interests are. It was a NON-STARTER... It WAS DEBATED Our CIA analysts doln't buy into the Czech intelligence. There is no proof to the Atta and Iraqi official meeting. Mere speculation. Yeah... two approaches to this.. The Czechs spoke before recognizing that sources and methods would be revealed to the US, so they won't provide sufficient evidence to verify the claim. Or the CIA is playing another angle. I'm going on a gut feeling, by the way the Czech government announced they had seen Atta meeting with an Iraqi intelligence officer and then tried to pull back (apparently under pressure from somewhere, including internal intel officers)... But Czech intelligence has the entire country wired, if only as a result of their experience with the USSR. Record keeping in the aftermath of 10 years of war is probably not the best, and there's probably a very good reason why the US military likes paperwork in triplicate. Geezus... Just how much is Saddam's government paying you to spout this kind of tripe?? They just stated they are going to turn over MORE documents, stuff they were supposed to turn over back in December!!! And WE KNOW they are missing 6,000 chemical warheads BASED UPON THEIR DOCUMENTATION... I'm really beginning to think you're an Iraqi agent.... If not, then you're just someone looking for ANY FRIGGIN' REASON YOU CAN JUSTIFY for not enforcing a BINDING UN resolution... And I'd rather not debate someone who is merely arguing for the sake of arguing... If I want to do that I could go spend time with my ex-wife.. Hawk