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In reply to the discussion: DO NOT BE FOOLED!!! [View all]Martin Eden
(12,907 posts)OK, let's say a Rethug will occupy the White House in January 2017. He vows to gut and/or privatize Social Security, and the R's will control both houses of Congress. It comes up for a vote in November 2016, after the election. Since SS will be gutted anyway, you see nothing wrong with Democrats voting to gut SS because they can't stop it.
Really?
Except, of course, the IWR vote was in October 2002 -- before the midterm elections. Are you one of those Dems who concede an election before it actually takes place and stay home, thereby making the predication reality?
Constitutionally the authority to take our nation to war resides with Congress. The IWR vote in October 2002 was a matter of Congress approving the war, and giving the president discretion if and when to launch it. If the IWR vote was NO and Bush launched the war anyway, that would have been grounds for impeachment on top of the other war crimes. Instead, these war criminals have not been and likely never will be brought to justice. Because democratic leaders like Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Joe Biden were complicit.
The IWR vote is very likely the most important vote every member of Congress at that time will ever take. Strong Democratic leadership may very well have stopped the war because strong leaders speaking the truth can win the support of the American people. And even if the efforts to stop the war and impeach the president failed, at least those who claim to represent us would not have failed to stand up and do their best on behalf of the people.
Instead, illegal wars have tacit approval and are likely to continue.