Don’t start another war
Cato Institute
by William A. Niskanen
03/02/07
[T]he October 2002 war resolution provides authority for the use of U.S. military forces only to ‘defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq,’ a narrowly defined mission that was accomplished in the first few weeks of the U.S. invasion in the spring of 2003. No other nation is mentioned in this resolution, and it would take an exceptionally tortured interpretation to sanction war with any nation other than Iraq. So the President has no authority for a broader war...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8020
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by William A. Niskanen
03/02/07
[T]he October 2002 war resolution provides authority for the use of U.S. military forces only to ‘defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq,’ a narrowly defined mission that was accomplished in the first few weeks of the U.S. invasion in the spring of 2003. No other nation is mentioned in this resolution, and it would take an exceptionally tortured interpretation to sanction war with any nation other than Iraq. So the President has no authority for a broader war...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8020
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 2. Mär, 16:25
