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Reply #50: Well, I still don't read that into the act [View All]

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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-18-04 10:19 PM
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50. Well, I still don't read that into the act
There are restrictions to both acts, it seems to me that the president's actions are specifically limited by this:

SEC. 5. (b)
Within sixty calendar days after a report is submitted or is required to be submitted pursuant to section 4(a)(1), whichever is earlier, the President shall terminate any use of United States Armed Forces with respect to which such report was submitted (or required to be submitted), unless the Congress (1) has declared war or has enacted a specific authorization for such use of United States Armed Forces, (2) has extended by law such sixty-day period, or (3) is physically unable to meet as a result of an armed attack upon the United States. Such sixty-day period shall be extended for not more than an additional thirty days if the President determines and certifies to the Congress in writing that unavoidable military necessity respecting the safety of United States Armed Forces requires the continued use of such armed forces in the course of bringing about a prompt removal of such forces.


I certainly wish that congress had not been pressured into the IWR a month before an election and two months after the repugs "rolled out their new product" based upon false information but I still don't see where any of this authorizes anyone to share classified not-foreign documents to be shared with a foreign national before those documents are shared with congress or the SOS. They stepped over a line, LEAPED over a line. Why did bandar have a "need to know" the details? Why the fuck did we need his permission for this action and feel the need to convince him, as misguided as it was?

Anyway, time for me to blow this popstand and head for home. My research in our discussion has informed me of facts I was not previously aware of regarding the actual laws passed, I hope it has done the same for you. I do not back off, yet I must retire for the evening and go home to see my kids.

Information is truth, keep it dear.
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