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2007-02-27 Iraq

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Posted by Fred 2007-02-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Just for the record, ever check up on how the US settled its Declaration of War against Germany in 1917? Remember the US Senate refused to ratify the Versailles Treaty.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-02-27 06:47|| 2007-02-27 06:47|| Front Page Top

#2 ...It's occurring to me that the Democrats really have painted themselves into a corner. The cutting-off-funds option terrifies them because it will take weeks at most for Iraq to implode into a failed state far worse than Afghanistan ever was, and there'll be more than a year for the Republicans to remind the voters whodunit. Everything else - the cap, the time limit, and any other harebrained ideas they've got - can pretty much be ignored by the White House. If Congress invokes the War Powers Act (and that's far from a certainty), the WPA stands an excellent chance of being cut to ribbons in SCOTUS. Clearly one side did its homework while the other seems to believe that the Wayback Machine has sent us all back to 1972.

Seems to me the situation was best described by another Democrat, one from Texas, a long time ago:

"... "I can't run, I can't hide and I can't make it go away."

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-02-27 09:02|| 2007-02-27 09:02|| Front Page Top

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