Political Quotes

“What? We don't have enough wars going on? A war in Iraq, a war in Afghanistan? We need one more war? We have to wage war against another nation which did not attack us? We have to wage war against another nation which does not represent an actual or imminent threat to the United States? Mr. Speaker, I have to tell you that I have been all over this country, and I haven't had a single person come up to me to tell me, ``You know, Dennis, what America needs is another war.'' The last thing we need is to be voting to go to war. There are plenty of reasons to oppose the war in Libya: It's unconstitutional. Article I, section 8 has given the Congress the power to declare war. It's illegal. The War Powers resolution was passed over Presidential veto to allow the President latitude to respond when there is an imminent threat to the U.S. while retaining the constitutional duty of Congress. Even the President's top legal advisers at the Pentagon and the Department of Justice determined that the War Powers resolution applies to the war in Libya. Another reason is that Americans don't want this war. A poll taken at the beginning of the month by CBS found that six in 10 Americans do not think the United States should be involved in a conflict within Libya. Just 30 percent of Americans in that poll thought the United States was doing the right thing by taking part in the current military conflict. A majority of Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike think the U.S.…”