[Phys-L] Re: Warning: Don't ask for Library loans on Political Topics

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@REDSHIFT.COM>]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021002-2.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111101832.html

http://www.shockingelk.com/text/joint_authorization/

Was that a rhetorical ?, or you hadn't read the aboves, as reported in
the media?

bc, who thinks it was rhetorical.

Karl Trappe wrote:

> I missed the declaration...Could someone refresh my memory of the actual
> congressional declaration of war? Somehow, I labored under the impression that the
> Iraq invasion was another "police action", like Vietnam and Korea, etc.  When
> Congress agreed to pursue the 9/11 terrorists was that done via and actual
> "Declaration of War" or was it via authorization of the President to "pursue the
> terrorists"?  Obviously, Osama Bin Laden went to Afganistan, his family resides in
> Saudi Arabia, and the Iraq connection has handily been shown to be invalid.  So,
> *what, exactly did Congress authorize*?
>
>
>
> > > Fox News has been pointing out that there's an exception for wartime.
> > > Yeah, sure.  Take a look at
> > >  http://cryptome.sabotage.org/50usc-ch36.htm#50USC1811
> > > and decide for yourself whether it applies.
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