The Far Left Forget Congress Holds Hearings And Declares Wars Not The President

Democrats of the extreme liberal persuasion are complaining about how Bush led the United States into war on false pretenses. They say he had more intelligence available than he passed on to him. This may or may not be true nor is it relevant. It is not relevant because Congress has the ability to do hearing on issues that are important to the United States such as going to war. According to Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution Congress and not the executive branch is the one to declare war. So the blame for getting us into Iraq rest solidly on the shoulders of Congress and not the President a fact no one seems to want known. You could accuse the Republican congressional members of rubberstamping Bush’s action but I have not noticed the Democratic members being shy about obstructing him in any other case.

Congresspersons of any party don't want it mentioned because they are covering their own backsides while President Bush is protecting his party and his reputation. The question I ask is why the media is reacting to what the politicians choose to let out instead of doing some investigating journalism to find out what the real deal is. Don't they realize a reactive media is not a free media? To be free you must be proactive so as not to be directed by the politicians actions.

The Iraq War started in March of 2003, and the decision to go to war was based on evidence supplied by the Intelligence community. This is the same Intelligence community whom were found to be at fault in gathering intelligence to prevent the attack of 9/11 by the 9/11 Committee over a year later on July of 2004. Congress has already moved to resolve that problem and the faulty information supplied to them by addressing the 9/11 Committees concerns in legislation they passed at the end of 2004 and which President Bush signed into law. So in short the evidence fails to support any advantage beyond political spin in addressing a situation that has already been addressed by legislation and such spin has the potential to damage the faith we have in the democratic process of the United States for no other purpose that one party may claim more political power than another.