Monday, December 12, 2011
What's Congress's role in the Iraq War??
The resolution to denounce the decision of George Bush is like a shot across the bow, it is a warning shot, per say congress has the constitutional right to defund the war. Bush has ask for more then a 240 billion dollars for the next year and congress does not have to act on that and this would end the war. I do think though that it might be political suicide if this is done. by sending a non binding resolution they are letting the president know that they are not pleased with his new strategy and they have this option. Congress does not have the constitutional ability to just stop the war as this is the presidents decision as he is the commander in chief. But they can just refuse to pay for it. It is mostly all political infighting is all, it may be interesting to see what happens later this year when and if this new escalation does not work;
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