Re: Intel Official: Expect Less Privacy
baynole2@yahoo.com added these comments in the current
discussion du jour ...
>> The fix is simple: don't be a perverted terrorist planning an
>> attack. Follow that rule and you should be okay. If you ARE a
>> perverted terrorist planning an attack, we'll get you. Why do
>> you think almost no attacks have taken place since 9-11?
>
> Er, when exactly was war declared, & against whom??
>
Good point! BTW, can anyone cite an example where the United
States has actually declared war on a sovereign nation after
WWII? I cannot. Euphemisms abound, though, including Korea's
"police action" and Viet Nam's "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution." But,
at least for the major conflicts the sitting president did go to
Congress for a war powers authorization then later a supplemental
budget request. In the case of the 1991 Gulf War Operation Desert
Storm and the 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom at least we were
fighting an organized armed force that wore uniforms and acted as
one would expect an army or air force to act. But, since Saddan
was kicked out just 3 weeks later, the "war" has become both more
religious and sectarian than ordinary "military" as well as
regional civil war. If we wanted to declare, or re-declare war in
Iraq, against whom would the president ask Congress to declare
against? I think that absent a post-Cold War conflict with Russia
or perhaps China, and maybe either North Korea or Iran,
traditional Constitutional requires for a president to ask for a
declaration of war seem to have gone the way of the dodo bird.
--
HP, aka Jerry