Debating Wars May Be One Of The Few Things The GOP And Dems Lose Their Partisanship On
The concept of assessing intelligence and declaring wars should be on congress and the senate. Let intelligence agencies and the pentagon state their cases to house and senate oversight committees. Like Duckworth says, she has a top secret clearance, she knows how the military works, and most importantly she has no problem with detailed intelligence reports and proof of positions (unlike Trump who has no use for the boring nature of them).
It appears that Bolton and Mattis are selling the president and the country a bill of goods. Our allies do not seem to agree that there is an increased level of threat that would warrant the saber rattling and alarming moves such as removing all embassy personnel. Iran is already down to a no family and essential personnel only mode.
This is time for congress to step in and exercise due diligence and control, in reality presidents do no declare war, congress does...and they need to reestablish the actual boundaries of their authority over a sadly clueless and profoundly lacking president.
This issue of wars is one of the few things that the GOP has strong enough will and convictions on to actually step away from the president's positions where warranted. Declarations of war need to reflect the will of the people.
woodguru wrote:
The concept of assessing intelligence and declaring wars should be on congress and the senate. Let intelligence agencies and the pentagon state their cases to house and senate oversight committees. Like Duckworth says, she has a top secret clearance, she knows how the military works, and most importantly she has no problem with detailed intelligence reports and proof of positions (unlike Trump who has no use for the boring nature of them).
It appears that Bolton and Mattis are selling the president and the country a bill of goods. Our allies do not seem to agree that there is an increased level of threat that would warrant the saber rattling and alarming moves such as removing all embassy personnel. Iran is already down to a no family and essential personnel only mode.
This is time for congress to step in and exercise due diligence and control, in reality presidents do no declare war, congress does...and they need to reestablish the actual boundaries of their authority over a sadly clueless and profoundly lacking president.
This issue of wars is one of the few things that the GOP has strong enough will and convictions on to actually step away from the president's positions where warranted. Declarations of war need to reflect the will of the people.
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I think you mean Pompeo instead of Mattis?
The players change often.
moldyoldy wrote:
The players change often.
Mattis has been gone a long time!
moldyoldy wrote:
The players change often.
Amazingly astute, like when Holder got held in contempt and the Kenyan replaced him with lying Loretta Lynch and she proved to be a obstruction of justice pig?
Noraa wrote:
Mattis has been gone a long time!
Trump keeps changing people if they disagree with him publicly. So who can keep up?
moldyoldy wrote:
Trump keeps changing people if they disagree with him publicly. So who can keep up?
It seems like your media gods even keep up with the P**********l flatulence, yeah, the President cuts one little fart.."headlines"...a little cabinet change shouldn't be that difficult.
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