How can we win a war when congress already declared defeat? Do they not remember 9/11/01?

Question

Is politics more important than the lives of our soldiers in battle? Why can they just give the troops the money they need? If the president did break the law, why don't they just impeach him? Is congress themselves breaking the law by trying to be commander-in-chiefs?

Answer 1

No...Congress is congressionally mandated to oversee the executive branch and its wartime powers by providing the "power of the purse" in regard to funding military efforts. If you don't like it, perhaps you can go visit your local psychic and attempt to contact the founding fathers of our country from the 'great beyond'.

I'm so sick of this debate, I just want to puke.

As a Soldier and officer, I think that there is absolutely nothing wrong with what Congress is doing. The CINC wants a blank check with no accountability and no benchmarks...that's not the way the military works. I think it's ironic that "No Child Left Behind" requires schools to meet certain benchmarks and timelines in order to get funded, but we can throw billions of dollars at Iraq with absolutley no accountability.

Answer 2

Who's to say that defeat is not winning total compromise in Iraq. Maybe our victory is the fact that the battle going on in Iraq is not happening on American soil. The problem with our current two party system is that politicians will bend their actual individual beliefs to fit the situation. Point in case is Hillary Clinton on "youtube" stating that we must go to Iraq..which was stated recently after 911, yet now she makes other statements that if she were the president back then, she would have never sent troops to Iraq. Our two party system creates an atmosphere where the secondary party must always take an opposing stand against the reigning party in order to point fingers and convince the public to change the balance of power back to their party. they can not take an honest stance if they agreed with the reigning opposing party. That would tell the public things are fine and keep things the same.

Answer 3

nicely, this is not any longer a civil warfare, yet. the reason Congress would not declare warfare contained in the way they have some cases contained in the previous, is because the diplomats look operating issues at present. Or contained in the words of Michael Savage "too a lot patent leather-depending and by no ability adequate Patton". And look who we've been electing! can not blame Congress, this is the fault of We the individuals. Congress has favored a center floor contained in the variety of "police moves" together with Korea, VietNam, and now we've lengthy gone one step farther, basically being the police arm of the UN. Heck, Clinton repainted our planes, took the Flag off, basically so shall we bomb the incorrect part in Kosovo.

Answer 4

the war in Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11. 9/11 was al quaida and ben laden Iraq is A. a cover up for bush's complete and total failure in Afghanistan, and B. because bush personally hated Saddam but lacked the courage to go after him himself, so over 3300 Americans have dies because of bush's personnel hatred. there were NO WMD, and 9/11 was almost completely done by the Saudis, who by the way, are STILL funding and supporting ben laden, but of course none of you remember that do you?

Answer 5

Oh i guess from here on out we can use 9/11 as an excuse to do anything we want. It sickens me how we use that tragic day for our own gain. we should have never went into Iraq and now were paying the cost. i guess when Iraq has another dictator we will realize that all those people died for nothing.

Answer 6

What makes you think we're fighting a war? We did what we needed to do. No Saddam, no WMD. Done. Iraqis are fighting each other. We're just there watching it. This isn't our war. It's Iraqi's war.

War power is split into executive branch, and legislative branch. President is commander in chief and congress provides funds. This way no one branch have total control over WAR. Welcome to America. This is not a dictatorship.

Answer 7

Iraq didn't attack us. Truthfully, it was Saudi Arabia that attacked us, what with 3/4 of the hijackers being Saudi. But are we going to attack Saudi Arabia? No, because that would hurt the oil trade...
The war in Iraq, and the war on terror are two different things. Iraq did not attack us. By getting stuck in Iraq, we are actually hurting our ability to fight the war on terror. Men and resources that could be spent hunting for Bin Laden and other extremists in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are being squandered in Iraq...

Answer 8

They want this war to fail to Keep Bush down.. They Dont care about the country.. They know they cany impeach him or they would have tried already.. Pelosi Thinks she is the President

Answer 9

remember GWB on the flight deck of the USS Lincoln declaring Mission Accomplished? How can we lose when we already won? therefore why continue to fund a war that we won years ago?

Answer 10

Yes it is politics is the way of life of a superieour country.