Pot and kettle anyone?

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

lol....thank you Q.... but excuse me while I go put on another pair of the anti-jargon diapers.

The President of the United States can not declare war. The Congress of the United States soley has the authority to declare war, and it must be by a 2/3rd's majority vote. That is constitutional law.

The President is the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. However, Congress can at any time "rescind" any law, including a declaration of war.

There is no other loop hole or "jargon" to contend with. Bush is the bad guy, but 452 members of congress, set the stage and have never pulled the plug.

That is fact Tao.

Furthermore, while I have your "shocked" attention, only Congress can approve the war budget. No budget, no war. Congress recently approved 170 billion for the war...

[Dogbrain]

Originally Posted by Quahom1

The President of the United States can not declare war. The Congress of the United States soley has the authority to declare war, and it must be by a 2/3rd's majority vote. That is constitutional law.

The President is the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. However, Congress can at any time "rescind" any law, including a declaration of war.

There is no other loop hole or "jargon" to contend with. Bush is the bad guy, but 452 members of congress, set the stage and have never pulled the plug.

That is fact Tao.

Furthermore, while I have your "shocked" attention, only Congress can approve the war budget. No budget, no war. Congress recently approved 170 billion for the war...

Reality is that Congress, INCLUDING MOST DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS, has WILLINGLY COLLUDED in everything that has been going wrong. After all, they know that their leftist cultists will happily ignore this fact.

[wil]

Originally Posted by Quahom1

Ironic...Russia still hasn't backed off, as of today...

Not ironic, Georgia hasn't yet. It is a political standoff. As usual the people of the region will suffer while we play chess with their lives.

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Quahom1

The President of the United States can not declare war. The Congress of the United States soley has the authority to declare war, and it must be by a 2/3rd's majority vote. That is constitutional law.

The President is the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. However, Congress can at any time "rescind" any law, including a declaration of war.

There is no other loop hole or "jargon" to contend with. Bush is the bad guy, but 452 members of congress, set the stage and have never pulled the plug.

That is fact Tao.

Furthermore, while I have your "shocked" attention, only Congress can approve the war budget. No budget, no war. Congress recently approved 170 billion for the war...

But Q, and this is one of them 'but's' carved in letters 10 foot tall, you know full well who rode the tide of fear generated by the all too convenient 9/11. I think it possible Q, that maybe a little bit of you is doing a bit of blame displacement here. Perhaps you are feeling a little guilty of your support for a President who has been proven to be the most Unamerican President in history?

To me it is irrelevant if they are Republican or Democrat, both are the lackeys of the big business that has profited so very nicely from it all. It is not about party politics, it IS about who the American people allow to lead them. Seems for many it is Fox News that dictates this.


tao

[17th Angel]

Originally Posted by Quahom1

Congress recently approved 170 billion for the war...

What a waste of money.

[Vajradhara]

Namaste Pathless,

thank you for the post.

Originally Posted by Pathless

Yes, of course I have, Vajradhara. But maybe you could enlighten me as to how the Mongols compare to a culture that has ethnically cleansed an entire "New World," or enslaved and killed millions of Africans, crusaded in the name of God against infidels and murdered untold millions of people.

of course. if you have a serious interest in Mongolian history and their impact on the world stage i would strongly recommend a text called "The Devil's Horsemen".

the reason that the Great Khan started his conquests was due to being called by God, or so the history relates. the Mongolian armies enslaved entire nations, brutally murdered every man, woman and child in town after town until the nation would surrender and accept slavery and subjugation. the particular manner in which resisting leaders were killed is horrifically gruesome.

the Mongolia empire is the largest empire that our world has ever seen at one point stretching from the Korean peninsula to Hungary and Western Europe, from Russia to Saudi Arabia. at one point most of the worlds population called the Great Khan, Master.

Perhaps you could enlighten us all as to how the scale of Mongol dominance equals the scale of destruction and dominance of the technologically depraved and spiritually bankrupt culture that perverted Christ's teachings into a militarism and a denial of anything Earthly and of the body, and which has ravaged the Earth, the bodies of untold animals (including humans), and enslaved the spirits and wills of untold numbers of people--all in the name of Christ and "progress".

when the Mongols destroyed a people they would very often destroy everyone, burning the books and erasing the very knowledge of that people from existence. the Mongols controlled the bulk of the Eurasian land mass under a reign of brutal savagery, enslaving the skilled workers to build weapons of terrible destructive potential to destroy the rest of their population that dared to resist.

interestingly enough it was just outside of Tours, France that the Mongols finally suffered a military defeat and during the subsequent winter the Great Khan died and thus most of Western Europe was spared as it was unlikely that the European allies would have been able to repel the reinforced army that was being assembled.

Somehow I think you'll report that they still come in 2nd.

nope, not particularly. of course i don't think it's a compliment to be the most blood thirsty and brutal empire the world has seen but there it is.

metta,

~v