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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (57059)	4/1/2007 11:14:12 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

No it is not the same. More moral relevance and confusion? Why do conservatives have such problems making moral judgements based on reality? A war declaration is just that, a "declaration of war". That is how our Constitution states that our nation is to be taken to war. That is not what was done when we launched an offensive war against Iraq in the spring of 2003. To be fair, it is true that a majority of Democrats and even liberals supported the war authorization legislation in 2002, and many continue to support the ongoing war and occupation, so it is pointless to try to say its somehow a Republican or Democratic war, and one side is to blame for it. One person really is to blame for the Iraq war and its aftermath, and that is our leader (President Bush) who decided to take us on our second (after Afghanistan) truly offensive war when he ordered the invasion or Iraq. History may judge this as the moment when the U.S. stopped being a constitutional republic and started being a dictatorship with one person assuming the power to take the nation to war in defiance of the constitutional mandate of a declaration of war.