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Found an interesting site that I thought a few might be interested in. Tommy, you might want to take a look at this site, if you can find the time and your computer doesn't bite you.
The site is called, 'The Declaration of war by the United States.'
There are also many links from this page, so it might be worth a person's while to scope it out.
Enjoy,
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
I know that I won't have any issues from anyone on this but even though they haven't been 'declared', Korea, Viet Nam, Panama, ****lia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq are wars and not the politically correct term, police actions. You can call a rose what you want but if it looks like a rose, smells like a rose, and feels like one, it probably is.
This is just one reason why there is a growing number of people not willing to support the troops in Iraq or Afghanistan because they wrongly believe that they are not a 'legal' or 'true' war. Believe me, they are and the boys on the ground are in just as much hazard over there as any soldier who fought the War of 1812, the Civil War or World War 1 or 2.
I wish Congress would have just gotten off its politically correct tail and just declared war on Afghanistan and Iraq. There were enough reasons to depose the Taliban, chase down Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to warrant one.
Mike Kotyk
Virginia
__________________ A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal ~ Oscar Wilde, 19th Century writer & poet
I agree with your above 100%. If its war, then declare it and get the folks behind it. If it isn't and you can't get the folks behind it, then leave it be.
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
Hear! Hear! Mike & Neil. Truer words there are not!
__________________ 'It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag'
Amen! .................................................. .................................................. ............................... (it said a simple 'amen' was too shot to post)
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"It was a very peculiar time." - Franklin D. Cossitt
Ancestors in USA Army: 6th IA Inf, 11th IL Cav, 1st AL Cav; 122nd NY Inf; 6th MI Cav; 35th MA Inf; 100th IL Inf; 1st CO Inf/Cav; 22nd IN Inf
Mike... you give the political leaches in Washington far too much credit. I don't think it has changed in the course of history. And I agree wholeheartedly.
__________________ Shane Christen
American Legion Post 352
SUVCW Camp Abernethy# 48
Lifetime NRA member
3rd MN VI
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Eccl 1:18
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