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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000057.txt from 2003/03

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] [Dblrd-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 22:53:35 -0500

On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 06:23 PM, herb fawcett wrote:

> Isn't congress the representative of the people in our system?
That's why we (or we thought "we") elected them. But once they're
elected by special interest groups and their money, they must remember
where that money came from.
> Isn't congress required to declare a state of war?
In case you haven't been following the news, Congress abdicated this
power several months ago and gave our President a blank cheque to spend
as he will. This was, in my opinion, a sad day in the history of the
United States.
> Isn't congress enjoined from declaring war if we are not attacked?
Don't know about this one, but I always thought that we as a nation
took the moral high ground in such cases.
>  As I remember, there was some problem with that during the early
> second world war.  Does the World Trade Center disaster qualify as an
> attack on us?  
It was an attack on us, the American people.
> And if so, by whom?
Depends upon whom you talk to. Our President wants to play "Pin the
tail on the Donkey" with anyone he can stick it to.
> BTW what are the fruits reaped from war which are so attractive to
> governments?
Since our present Republican Government is pro business, pro corp., it
would seem that war is good business for many companies....besides, we
need an economic boost. War always seems to end a depression, or at
least take our minds off it.
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> Herb  
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> From: Oboeeee@-----.com
> Reply-To: doublereed-l@-----.edu
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:25:46 EST
> To: doublereed-l@-----.edu
> Subject: [DR-L] [Dblrd-L] Quote of the Day
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> "War ... should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose
> toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the
> government which is to reap its fruits."
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> -James Madison (1751–1836) 4th U.S. president
> “Universal Peace” (January 31, 1792). W.T. Hutchinson et al., The
> Papers of James Madison, vol. 14, p. 207, Chicago and Charlottesville,
> Virginia (1962-1991)
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Richard Bush
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