PAN ARAB UNION FOR PEACE

NEWSLETTER
August 27, 2002

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RULING BY DECEPTION
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       Bush does not need Congress approval to attack Iraq
             Iraq-USA, Politics, 8/27/2002 

             White House legal advisors have considered that the US President
             George Bush does not need to get the approval of the Congress
             in order to launch a military attack against Iraq.

             Officials at the White House said on Monday that Bush's Aides
             related their conclusion on this issue on three basic elements.
             The first, as they said is that the American constitution,
             according to which the US President assumes the post of the highest
             commander of the armed forces; and a decision adopted by the US
             congress in 1991 gives President Bush the right to use the force
             in the Gulf war, and third is the decision issued on
             September 14, 2001.

This is a sheer and blatant attempt at legal manuevering and is based on the
American oligarchy stripping the American people of their democratic rights.
Notice that the reference to the "American constitution" cites only the
"commander of the armed forces" and not the section which reads:

Section. 8. 
Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power . . .Clause 11: To declare War,
grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures
on Land and Water; 
Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to
that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; 

which is popularly paraphrased as:

             "Only the Congress shall have the power to declare war."

Their only other citations are "bushies" i.e. the result of manipulations
by george bush sr and george bush jr.  Enough already DUBYA.  MAKE PEACE
-- THAT WOULD BE HEROIC.

RIGHT CAN AND WILL TRIUMPH OVER MIGHT

Jean M. Temple, MBA
"MarvelousMom" (codename:GraceUnlimited)