http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/8/24/us-naval-fleet-positionstowardsyriaasobamaconsidersoptions.html
Why isn't CONGRESS debating what we should do?
US Constitution, Article I, Section 8
1: The Congress shall have Power ...
11: To declare War
Of course, Congress has by statue given up this power to the President; but doing so is an act of cowardice on their part and an abject failure to carry out their Constitutionally-mandated responsibilities.
Interestingly, Thomas Jefferson's ideas about what should be in the US Constitution were never incorporated into it. Among them were the following:
The administrator [the executive authority, kind of like the President] was to be unable to dissolve or adjourn the legislature, to declare war or call up the armed forces, or to coin money. "These powers," Jefferson wrote, "shall be exercised by the legislature alone."
The General assembly shall have no power to pass any law inflicting death for any crime, excepting murder, & those offences in the military service for which they shall think punishment by death absolutely necessary: and all capital punishments in other cases are hereby abolished. Nor shall they have power to prescribe torture in any case whatever.
[Read more about this @
http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/spring07/jefferson.cfm
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefPapr.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=2&division=div1]
Thomas Jefferson, a very wise man; more or less ignored by the thugs who run today's national security state and who torture in his name.
"Honor bound to defend freedom."
-Motto of our heroic torturers in Guantanamo Bay
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