Where's the anti-war Left?
Fair question?
I'm 51 years old. I distinctly remember the Nixon and Ford years and the anti-war movement of that era.
The Reagan years? Yep. Not just students, Leftists, and other radicals opposed Reagan's policies - particularly his "interventions" in Central and South American affairs - but the Democratic Party as a Party was loud and clear in their opposition... legislatively clear as well as verbally clear.
Dubya...?!?! Com'on, folks! Code Pink?! Locally a group calling themselves "Women in Black." Elements of the Left burning Bush in effigy...
(*SHRUG*)
WHERE... ARE... THE... LEFTISTS... TODAY...?!?!
Unless it's just some huge bluff, the media and pundits - often quoting "official sources" - insist that Barack Hussein Obama is planning on ordering attacks upon Syria as soon as within the next few days.
The other day I caught a blip on Drudge reporting that the latest polling shows only 9% of the American People favor involving ourselves in the Syrian civil war.
WHERE... ARE... THE... LEFTISTS... TODAY...?!?!
The true Right - people like Rand Paul and myself - are against intervention. Vocally so! (How many stand-alone posts have I dedicated to my opposition?!)
WHERE... ARE... THE... LEFTISTS... TODAY...?!?!
Where are the college campus rallies against yet another foreign "intervention?"
Folks... neither the media nor the average scumbag politician will even discuss the Constitutional points I've been raising.
Folks... this is not my America. If it's yours... don't forget to swap out the "c" for a "k."
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* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/congress-should-veto-obamas-war/
By Patrick J. Buchanan
“Congress doesn’t have a whole lot of core responsibilities,” said Barack Obama last week in an astonishing remark.
(*SNORT*)
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
For in the Constitution, Congress appears as the first branch of government. And among its enumerated powers are the power to tax, coin money, create courts, provide for the common defense, raise and support an army, maintain a navy and... declare war.
* AND LOTS MORE!
But, then, perhaps Obama’s contempt is justified.
* HIS CONTEMPT FOR CONGRESS IS JUSTIFIED... HIS CONTEMPT FOR THE CONSTITUTION... IS TREASONOUS.
For consider Congress’ broad assent to news that Obama has decided to attack Syria, a nation that has not attacked us and against which Congress has never authorized a war.
* NOT OPPOSING IS NOT THE SAME AS ASSENTING. (STILL... I HEAR YA, PAT!)
Why is Obama making plans to launch cruise missiles on Syria?
* A MYRIAD OF REASONS. (SOME ACTUALLY REASONABLE AND WELL-INTENTIONED, NO DOUBT! BUT THAT'S BESIDES THE POINT...)
According to a “senior administration official … who insisted on anonymity,” President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons on his own people last week in the two-year-old Syrian civil war.
But who deputized the United States to walk the streets of the world pistol-whipping bad actors?
Where does our imperial president come off drawing “red lines” and ordering nations not to cross them?
Neither the Security Council nor Congress nor NATO nor the Arab League has authorized war on Syria.
* IN ANY EVENT, ONLY CONGRESS HAS LEGITIMATE POWER TO AUTHORIZE WAR OUTSIDE OF PREVIOUSLY CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED TREATY OBLIGATIONS.
Who made Barack Obama the Wyatt Earp of the Global Village?
* EVERY AMERICAN WHO REFUSES TO SPEAK UP IN DEFENSE OF OUR CONSTITUTION - SADLY, THAT'S WHO.
Moreover, where is the evidence that WMDs were used and that it had to be Assad who ordered them?
* SO FAR IT DOESN'T SEEM TO EXIST.
Such an attack makes no sense. Firing a few shells of gas at Syrian civilians was not going to advance Assad’s cause but, rather, was certain to bring universal condemnation on his regime and deal cards to the War Party, which wants a U.S. war on Syria as the back door to war on Iran.
* YEP...
Why did the United States so swiftly dismiss Assad’s offer to have U.N. inspectors – already in Damascus investigating old charges he or the rebels used poison gas – go to the site of the latest incident?
* BECAUSE THE ADMINISTRATION DOESN'T WANT IT'S STORY DISPROVED.
(*SHRUG*)
Do we not want to know the truth?
* SADLY... MOST AMERICANS COULDN'T CARE LESS.
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
Are we fearful the facts may turn out, as did the facts on the ground in Iraq, to contradict our latest claims about WMDs? Are we afraid that it was rebel elements or rogue Syrian soldiers who fired the gas shells to stampede us into fighting this war?
* NO DOUBT OBAMA AND THE BIPARTISAN "WAR PARTY" ARE.
(*SHRUG*)
With U.S. ships moving toward Syria’s coast and the McCainiacs assuring us we can smash Syria from offshore without serious injury to ourselves, why has Congress not come back to debate war?
* YEAH, JOHN... WHY NOT? LINDSEY...???
* MR. PRESIDENT... YOU DO REALIZE THAT YOU HAVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO RECONVENE CONGRESS TO ASK FOR A DECLARATION OF WAR... DON'T YOU? (BEING A "CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR" AND ALL, THAT IS.)
Lest we forget, Ronald Reagan was sold the same bill of goods the War Party is selling today – that we can intervene decisively in a Mideast civil war at little or no cost to ourselves. Reagan listened and ordered our Marines into the middle of Lebanon’s civil war. And he was there when they brought home the 241 dead from the Beirut barracks and our dead diplomats from the Beirut embassy.
* AND REAGAN RESPONDED BY TAKING THE HEAT... ACKNOWLEDGING HE HAD BLUNDERED... AND NEITHER REPEATING - LET ALONE DOUBLING DOWN UPON - HIS MISTAKE.
The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.
* MOST PEOPLE DON'T.
Congress should cut short its five-week vacation, come back, debate and decide by recorded vote whether Obama can take us into yet another Middle East war.
* YES... IT... SHOULD...!!!
The questions to which Congress needs answers: Do we have incontrovertible proof that Bashar Assad ordered chemical weapons be used on his own people? And if he did not, who did? What kind of reprisals might we expect if we launch cruise missiles at Syria, which is allied with Hezbollah and Iran? If we attack, and Syria or its allies attack U.S. military or diplomatic missions in the Middle East or here in the United States, are we prepared for the wider war we will have started? Assuming Syria responds with a counterstrike, how far are we prepared to go up the escalator to regional war? If we intervene, are we prepared for the possible defeat of the side we have chosen, which would then be seen as a strategic defeat for the United States? If stung and bleeding from retaliation, are we prepared to go all the way, boots on the ground, to bring down Assad? Are we prepared to occupy Syria to prevent its falling to the Al-Nusra Front, which it may if Assad falls and we do not intervene?
The basic question that needs to be asked about this horrific attack on civilians, which appears to be gas related, is: Cui bono? To whose benefit would the use of nerve gas on Syrian women and children redound? (Certainly not Assad’s, as we can see from the furor and threats against him that the use of gas has produced.)
The sole beneficiary of this apparent use of poison gas against civilians in rebel-held territory appears to be the rebels, who have long sought to have us come in and fight their war.
Perhaps Congress cannot defund ObamaCare. But at least they can come back to Washington and tell Obama, sinking poll numbers aside, he has no authority to drag us into another war.
Obama's Libyan adventure, which gave us the Benghazi massacre and cover-up, [should be] his last hurrah as war president.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_SYRIA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-08-27-07-52-11
LONDON (AP) -- Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday recalled Parliament for an urgent discussion and vote on a possible military response to the alleged chemical attack in Syria.
* AND TECHNICALLY HE WOULD SIMPLY "REQUEST" THAT THE QUEEN DECLARE WAR AND THAT WOULD BE THAT.
Cameron said the crisis session will be held Thursday, when Parliament would traditionally be on its summer recess. A clear motion will be considered by lawmakers, who have been urging Cameron to consult Parliament before any possible action against Syria.
* FOLKS... UNDERSTAND... WHEN I SAY THAT OBAMA'S AMERIKA IS NO LONGER A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC UNDER THE RULE OF LAW... I'M BEING QUITE SERIOUS.
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