Reply #53: And you think after what we've seen that ShrubCo wouldn't use a

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preemptive strike. I feel the need to remind here that Bush has claimed that the Iraq resolution gives him the right to do anything he wants without consulting Congress first. Read Sy Hersh:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/11/27/061127fa_fact



If the Democrats won on November 7th, the Vice-President said, that victory would not stop the Administration from pursuing a military option with Iran. The White House would put “shorteners” on any legislative restrictions, Cheney said, and thus stop Congress from getting in its way.

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The White House’s concern was not that the Democrats would cut off funds for the war in Iraq but that future legislation would prohibit it from financing operations targeted at overthrowing or destabilizing the Iranian government, to keep it from getting the bomb. “They’re afraid that Congress is going to vote a binding resolution to stop a hit on Iran, à la Nicaragua in the Contra war,” a former senior intelligence official told me.
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When Cheney was GHW Bush's Sec'y of Defense, he urged Bush not to go to Congress re: Persian Gulf War. You think he's better now, that sick fuck?

And, if I recall correctly, the Bush administration has argued that the Iraq resolution gives him broad war powers, including authority to attack Iran since, according to their lies, Iran is interfering in Iraq. I'll look that one up.


http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/warpowers925.htm (the whole memo can be found at the link)

Yoo Memo (this is one of the reasons that any legislator who voted for Kyl-Lieberman was enabling Bush when it comes to attacking Iran):

The President has broad constitutional power to take military action in response to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Congress has acknowledged this inherent executive power in both the War Powers Resolution and the Joint Resolution passed by Congress on September 14, 2001.

The President has constitutional power not only to retaliate against any person, organization, or State suspected of involvement in terrorist attacks on the United States, but also against foreign States suspected of harboring or supporting such organizations.

The President may deploy military force preemptively against terrorist organizations or the States that harbor or support them, whether or not they can be linked to the specific terrorist incidents of September 11.