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**Qdcqxffs** · 09-07-2011, 07:50 AM

You're free to believe what you like, of course. You've become very much like the folks who screamed "No War for Oil" in opposition to the Iraq war and, therefore, declared the war illegal simply because they disagreed with it. Making accusations of illegality for political reasons cheapens the term. It's all a bit like the boy who cried wolf.

No, now you are throwing up a smoke-screen. I asked you to explain to me what the War Powers Clause means if not to put the decision to go to war solely in the hands of the Congress. Everything else I've talked about are just the motivators for going into Libya. This does not negate my original point on it not being legal.

I'll wait for you to explain to me what the Constitution means in regards to war.

I hope you don't take this to the next step and refuse to obey deployment orders.

Vaya con dios, my brother. It's not my place to defy civilian policy. I can only keep myself from carrying out individual acts of lawlessness. If I was ordered to execute children in a village I could easily refuse that order.

The military exists under civilian authority and is there to protect our nation. Obviously, not all wars are for national security purposes but that does not negate the fact that just the existence of our military keeps us safe. If the military did not obey civilian authority then we would have a military state.

I will now await your explanation on how our country can prosecute a war w/o it being a declaration of war and how that is keeping with the plain English of the Constitution. You've yet to actually do that. I've responded to your many inquiries and have yet to have any of my questions answered directly.

09-07-2011, 07:50 AM	#40
Qdcqxffs Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 472 Senior Member	You're free to believe what you like, of course. You've become very much like the folks who screamed "No War for Oil" in opposition to the Iraq war and, therefore, declared the war illegal simply because they disagreed with it. Making accusations of illegality for political reasons cheapens the term. It's all a bit like the boy who cried wolf. No, now you are throwing up a smoke-screen. I asked you to explain to me what the War Powers Clause means if not to put the decision to go to war solely in the hands of the Congress. Everything else I've talked about are just the motivators for going into Libya. This does not negate my original point on it not being legal. I'll wait for you to explain to me what the Constitution means in regards to war. I hope you don't take this to the next step and refuse to obey deployment orders. Vaya con dios, my brother. It's not my place to defy civilian policy. I can only keep myself from carrying out individual acts of lawlessness. If I was ordered to execute children in a village I could easily refuse that order. The military exists under civilian authority and is there to protect our nation. Obviously, not all wars are for national security purposes but that does not negate the fact that just the existence of our military keeps us safe. If the military did not obey civilian authority then we would have a military state. I will now await your explanation on how our country can prosecute a war w/o it being a declaration of war and how that is keeping with the plain English of the Constitution. You've yet to actually do that. I've responded to your many inquiries and have yet to have any of my questions answered directly.
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