that the ONLY thing that Congress can do to FORCE the hand of the Executive Branch here is to actually DECLARE WAR. Otherwise, The President, as SOLE Commander of all U.S. military operations and procedures can do (or NOT do) as He damn well pleases, and Lieberman and the rest of the warmongers can all go fuck themselves and then sit in the corner and cry about it.

To my knowledge, there is no real precedent for something like a Congressional action requiring the President to engage in a limited military action against his will. For that matter, there's very little precedent for empowering a limited military action other than the War Powers Act.

of aggression would indicate he doesn't have the cajones to do so, i.e., give the excuse to paint him as soft on terror and weak on national defense. Hopefully BHO has the political cajones not to be blackmailed into the RW option of war as the first and only option.

They can't force the hand of the CoC.

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They want the oil pipeline to Canada and war with Iran.

The oil industry and military industrial complex's respective monopolies has given them the power of holding the short hairs over much of the government.

It's long past time for a national conversion to renewable energy sources and a smart grid pushed, promoted and if need be financed aggressively by the federal government.

Thanks for the thread, xchrom.