any congressmen who publically says we can't win the war in iraq tried for treason under the constitution?

Question

article 3 section 3 says and I qoute "treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them,or inadhering totheir Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." by saying we can't win that is comforting the enemy.

Answer 1

Only if you ignore the fact that we are guaranteed free speech in the same constitution and you don't know what aid and comfort really means (it doesn't mean making them happy, it means supplying them with goods and providing them with shelter.)

Answer 2

Actually, turncoat Congressmen and Congresswomen may turn out to be our best hope of winning. In World War II, Japan decided that isolationist Franklin Roosevelt (and yes, he WAS an isolationist) would never attack them. So, human nature took over and they kept prodding, prodding prodding until they were stupid enough to bomb Pearl Harbor. So it will be with Al Qaeda. They know so little about the American psyche that they will listen to bottom dwellers like Cindy Sheehan and John Murtha, and will decide that the Americans would never unite to attack them. What they don't realize is that with the right mix of terror and bloodshed, toy poodles like Sheehan and Pelosi will be drowned by an avalanche of American patriotism.

The strict answer to your question is that, no, just because an American....any american.....voices disagreement with our country's policies, that does not make them a traitor. In fact, the irony here is that disagreeing with our government is, ultimately, what REALLY makes us Americans.....enjoying the right of free speech, a right that people from around the world risk their very lives to obtain, even if it is illegally.

Answer 3

Constitution doesn't provide provisions anywhere that says a congressman can be tried for treason for expressions of opinions. He has the right to freedom of speech and so do you. The crime of treason is a completely different thing. It says to provide aid and comfort to the enemy and specifically is defined as to give state secrets, plans and arms to the enemy and by that definition the Federal government can itself be charged for providing the means for al Queda and the Taliban to attack us. Before 9/11 we gave them this stuff to attack the Russians. The Russians are laughing their heads off now!!!!

Answer 4

I think we CAN win the war, but people can say whatever they wish this wonderful country. This isn't Russia.

I see that you Capitalized The Words Aid And Comfort. I believe that the founding fathers were speaking of "harboring" the enemy with material "aids" and "comforts." That still holds true today (i.e. providing a safehouse for Al-Qaeda on US soil), so I think we're good with the original writing of article 3; section 3.

Answer 5

Your idea of comfort and our founding fathers idea of comfort are to different things. Our founding fathers were talking about material aid and comfort. They were not talking about denying freedom of speech. Giving the enemy gunpowder or weapons or blankets or food is one thing. Saying we might not win is another. If anybody should be tried for treason shouldn't it be gwb for lying to congress and the American people? And causing the death of thousands of Americans in Iraq because of those lies.

Answer 6

Or maybe it's reality. We don't even know what "victory" will look like. We don't have a clear goal we are working for.
"A stable Iraq" is not a clear measurable goal.

Also we cannot shoot our way to a stable Iraq. The Iraqis have to work it out for them selves. in the meantime our best young men and women are being wasted by a president who is in way over his head.

It's people like you, who nod your heads when every time Tony Snow says, everything is going just swell, that are the traitors.

Answer 7

I can't believe how some liberals on here spin everything, by saying "telling our enemies we can't WIN doesn't aid them" Like some Dem Congressmen and women have. Are you freakin kidding me??? Saying you can't win at anything helps out whoever your fighting or playing against, especially our enemies, who look at us after they have already driven planes into our Bldg's killing 3,000 Americans, 96 Khobar Towers 19 Airman Dead and 300 wounded, Blown holes in our warship's U.S.S. Cole, only makes them bolder, and stronger, and hopeful that a bunch of cowards win the 08 election so they can kick our a@@ again, just like they did in the 90's under Clinton.

Answer 8

Can we try George Bush for treason? While he was snorting blow and dodging his National Guard duties, my father was in Vietnam.

I didn't have a father for 18 years, he was hiding out in his woodworking shop unable to face society.

Boy, the Bushes sure are a stand-up patriotic family.

So, my father gets to be in H E L L, while that piece of garbage plays hookey and takes down piles of blow...what a classy and true countryman, puke.

The BS gets deeper by the day, more lies and no one seems to care while history repeats itself.

Glad I moved and yes, it felt great when the door hit me on my backside, thanks!!!

Answer 9

No, giving our enemies "moral support" is not treason, so the entire Demagogue party can breathe easy.
Defeatism should be illegal, though. You can't freely speak the word, "FIRE!" in a crowded theater, so it isn't such a constitutional stretch to ban the telegraphing of defeatist rhetoric to our enemies for their propaganda use, either.

Answer 10

Any congressman who votes to keep a significant amount of US troops in Iraq after 2009 probably won't have to worry about being a congressman.