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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Are you really this stupid? He voted to give the President discretion. This is Congress's role.
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Well, Congress abdicated its role, then. See U.S. Const., Art. I, sec. 8. And Kerry supported its doing so.
Given the important constitutional check that Congress is supposed to play in declarations of war, it strikes me as a bit rich to say "all I was doing was letting the president make a decision". Come on--Congress was making a decision in letting the president begin hostilities. It was not a vote give away its power. The vote had a substantive component to it. And Kerry, at the time, believed war was appropriate.
If he wants to back away from the vote, I really don't see how it helps him--I was voting for indecision and to let someone capable of actual acting decisively make a decision?
Anyone have some Grade A Dark Amber?
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