Interesting article to run in this Sunday's NYT...

[gratefultobelib]

The Way We Live Now
Whose War Powers?


By NOAH FELDMAN
Published: February 4, 2007
For weeks, Congress has immersed itself in drafting a nonbinding Congressional resolution condemning the president’s plan to secure Baghdad by sending 21,500 additional troops to Iraq. Although Democrats and some Republicans have chosen the expedient route of impugning the surge without actually blocking it, some heavy hitters have hinted that Congress could use the power of the purse to force the president to follow its will. Senator Ted Kennedy has introduced legislation that would block the president from adding more troops without specific Congressional authorization.


http://select.nytimes.com/preview/2007/02/04/magazine/1154663368878.html?8tpw&emc=tpw