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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 09:47 AM Original message |
Would someone please explain this War Powers thing for me? |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
1. If he wasn't forced to make the choices he has made in the last |
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meti57b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
2. I'm guessing it means ..... |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 09:55 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Seriously? |
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janx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 11:55 AM Response to Reply #4 |
21. Consider how totally reactionary this government was |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 10:13 AM Response to Reply #2 |
10. absolutely yes |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
3. are you being sarcastic? |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 09:57 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. seems like something straight out of the Handmaid's Tale |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 09:58 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I am serious |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 10:15 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. yes, yes, and yes. CONTROL to put it simply. |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 10:23 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. suppose they actually believed that 9/11 was a domestic attack |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 10:57 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. But they could never say that to Daschle. |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 11:58 AM Response to Reply #15 |
22. By then he had Al-CIAda as a convenient demon |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
7. Well we know they justify the torture, illegal imprisonment and |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 10:11 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. So "war powers" would just wipe out all laws? |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 10:15 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Yes, war powers would have wiped out all laws. |
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Jim__ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
8. It could be argued that this power gave him the authority to, say, |
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hwmnbn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
14. this may be an oversimplification.... |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 11:19 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. So you think he would use it in terms of arrests and imprisonment |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 11:26 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Yes, and having that power gives him a reserve of menace. |
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hwmnbn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 11:51 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Not all people will be arrested..... |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
18. He was trying to impose martial law (military rule) through the back door. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
20. It's a way that congress can avoid responsibility. |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-23-05 12:11 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. I meant the inclusion of "inside the united states" in the war powers act |
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