Reply #64: The flaw stems from Congress delegating ITS war-declaring powers [View All]

via the AUMFs, with the language in each stating 'at his determination', meaning at Bush's determination as President--one of the other offices that Congress was specifically NOT to delegate power to. You have to do a lot of reading of the two AUMFs (of Sept 2001 "USE OF FORCE" RESOLUTION September 14, 2001, for TWOT the war on terror, and Oct 2002 for the war in Iraq) plus the War Powers Act of 1973. I've put those links on my posting

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=676832&mesg_id=678060

Read them all CAREFULLY. The "he determines" and "as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in order to..." language obfuscates the War Powers Act of 1973's language requiring clarity and truthful circumstances and situations:

"It is the purpose of this joint resolution to fulfill the intent of the framers of the Constitution of the United States and insure that the collective judgement of both the Congress and the President will apply to the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicate by the circumstances, and to the continued use of such forces in hostilities or in such situations."

If one man's whimsy and fabrications (WMDs that didn't exist, except in his mind), then the WPAof'73 and the Constitution have been circumvented in order to create a state of perpetual war and to bankrupt the treasury. Continuation of the charade requires domestic spying upon your political "enemies", actually dissenters to wrongdoing, now labelled "traitors" conveniently. Wrongdoing under color of authority is still wrong and will be held to account.

Congress, as long as it remains in Republican hands, will continue this charade. We have until November of this year to set things right again in the USofA. The facts are on our side, along with the Constitution ! Let's get greased and kick some ass.