No fast U.S. shift on Iraq if Democrats win - Dean...

bridgit

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Sun Oct-29-06 07:15 PM
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No fast U.S. shift on Iraq if Democrats win - Dean...

'WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Even if Democrats win control of Congress in elections next week, an immediate change of course in Iraq policy is unlikely, the party's chairman said on Sunday.

Countering Republican campaign charges that Democrats would "cut and run" from Iraq, chairman Howard Dean said the party did not believe there should be a sudden pullout of all U.S. troops.

"The president will still be in charge of foreign policy and the military...I don't imagine we're going to be able to force the president to reverse his course," he told the CBS "Face the Nation" program.' http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N29286537.htm

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bluestateguy

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Sun Oct-29-06 07:35 PM
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1. How you can end a war from Congress is beyond me

You can hold hearings, pound the table, subpoena documents, hold more hearings, hold press conferences that blow a lot of hot air, but I am not aware of a time when Congress ever actually ended a war with its actual powers under the Constitution.

The one with the real power to end the war is the President of the United States who could end it with the stroke of a pen.

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mike_c

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Sun Oct-29-06 07:41 PM
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3. Congress can withdraw the authorization, which gives the president...

...90 days to either obtain a congressional declaration of war or end hostilities-- or precipitate a constitutional crisis, of course. More to the point, congress can suspend the appropriations for the war-- even the threat of that, if credible, will bring the executive to its knees.

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mike_c

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Sun Oct-29-06 07:38 PM
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2. piss on that-- anyone who doesn't work to get us out of Iraq...

...will never have my support again, no matter what letter they put after their name. I GUARANTEE that if dems take control of congress and don't put an end to the quagmire in Iraq before 2008, or at least work very damned diligently to do so, MANY folks on the left will abandon the dems in 2008. Now is not the time for the dems to prove Nader right. If dems win, they need to bust ass undoing the damage the Bush administration has done to America.

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