Iraq: Will We Ever Get Out?
Thomas Powers writes in The New York Review of Books: "There is a working assumption among the American people that a new president enters the White House free of responsibility for the errors of the past, free to set a new course in any program or policy, and therefore free - at the very least in constitutional theory, and perhaps even really and truly free - to call off a war begun by a predecessor. No one would expect something so dramatic on the first day of a new administration but it remains a fact that the president is the commander in chief of the armed forces, and the power that allowed one president to invade Iraq would allow another to bring the troops home."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051108Z.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051108Z.shtml
rudkla - 11. Mai, 17:21
