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voidmain:
Chaos, have you been skipping school? The president is the "Commander in Chief". He gives the red/green light. The commanders execute plans that they have devised to achieve a specific objective or set of objectives. Bush would have a high level knowlege of them but he certainly doesn't make the detailed plans. He just says "go" or "don't go". Read your constitution under the section titled "Executive Branch" (Article II, Section 2).
[ January 18, 2003: Message edited by: void main ]
choasforages:
yes he is the commander in cheif, i guess its more of an issue witht he medias wording. and i thought congress is supposed to declare war before we go kick their ass's and get rid of saddam/*like we should have years ago*/
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by chaosforages:
well, so far the U.S. has been attacking countrys that arn't that powerfull. i wonder why we are not so enthusiastic about going to war with north korea.........
/*yes i have a few theorys, but maybe i don't like china*/
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Read your history book. Ever hear of the "Korean War"? And when we kicked Iraq out of Kuwait Iraq was considered to have one of the worlds most powerful military. Korea is definitely a problem that needs to be dealt with. I believe this one has a better chance of being resolved diplomatically. If not they will need to be dealt with. South Korea was ready to kick us out until this little "Nukes in N. Korea" thing came up. Now I just heard they wanted to sign us on to stay for another 50 years. Interesting...
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by chaosforages:
yes he is the commander in cheif, i guess its more of an issue witht he medias wording. and i thought congress is supposed to declare war before we go kick their ass's and get rid of saddam/*like we should have years ago*/
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I guess you haven't been been following it. Congress authorized the use of force several months back which gives Bush the green light if the green light is necessary. Our forces wouldn't be heading over there right now if that were not the case.
[ January 18, 2003: Message edited by: void main ]
TheQuirk:
BTW, N. Korea has something like 300 (or maybe more, I don't remember) pieces of artilery at the border with S. Korea that can each shoot the capital of S. Korea without moving them an inch. So just bombing N. Korea would not be very fun for the S. Koreans (and for us, if that nuke they have really works (it's one thing to make one, but it's another to make it work))
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