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A Letter a Day until the War Ends

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Shh- don't tell anybody. Since the Korean War, we as a nation have decided that the Constitutional provision that only congress shall have the authority to declare war is obsolete. What an opportunity for President Obama, Doctor of Laws, to take us back to strict constructionism.

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President Barack Obama

The White House

Fax #202 456-2461


Dear President Obama,

I write to Dr Obama, the Constitutional scholar. The power to declare war was given by the Founding Fathers solely to Congress. They knew the danger of secret wars, of unpopular wars. They knew the temptation of the Commander in Chief to consolidate his power by waging war when it wasn’t absolutely necessary.


I am asking you to do the honest and legal thing, to ask Congress whether we are at war with Iraq and Afghanistan, and to abide by their decision.


Yours,



Josh Mitteldorf



 

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Josh Mitteldorf, a senior editor at OpEdNews, was educated to be an astrophysicist, and has branched out from there to mathematical modeling in a variety of areas. He has taught mathematics, statistics, and physics at several universities. He is an (more...)
 

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This is a very good ploy,... by John Sanchez Jr. on Wednesday, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:56:43 PM