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Originally posted by sgtclub
As you say, words have meaning. If they wanted something more they should have included it in the resolution. All the resolution requires is for him to "make available" his "determination," whatever that means.
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Those words are in plain English. The provision says he'll report to the Congress that those parameters were met. What more does it need to say to impose a requirement that such a determination and report shall be made?
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Incidently, I'm sure you realize that this garbaly goop is not unusual in an exercise that needs to be carefully drafted in order to garner the necessary support. Happens all the time in the UN.
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I think this comment proves too much for you. To garner the necessary support, this language was added. Do you think the people whose support this addition garnered really thought it meant nothing in the larger picture of what authority was given to the President?
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I disagree, but not worth arguing about. You advise someone to go make that argument and see how far it gets. Essentially it would be a Bush Lied argument.
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Give me the right forum, and it might go pretty far. Either way I think it passes the straight face test.
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No, but to say that he went outside of his authority you would have to argue he was unreasonable.
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You lost me here. You would have to argue he was unreasonable under the current reso, which doesn't insert the reasonable man standard you porposed?
