Talk:War Powers Resolution
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Why are significant sections of this article identical in wording to War Powers Resolution at AllExperts? Unseelie 06:37, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
This afternoon I tried to improve a confusing run-on sentence by switching phrases around (see the history page). I'm still not satisfied... I don't know enough about this. Have listed on Pages needing attention. - dcljr 05:53, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I've removed this article from Pages needing attention. - dcljr 17:18, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Why were several sections removed on Sept. 1 by an unregistered user? I think the (now removed) "Provisions" section, in particular, is critical to the article. (objectivity note: I did not contribute any of the removed material.) Thorne 11:12, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
- Probably vandalism. Reverted.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.219.255.117 (talk • contribs) 2005-10-03T20:43:09.
This article needs some rework. It mentions little about the historical context in which the resolution was passed, it mentions nothing of the controvery about INS v. Chadha and it devotes the bulk of the article to questions about its constitutionality with little mention of the weak points of these arguments. As an example, it presents US Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, Clause 8 as if it has implied priority over Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 (war declaration power of Congress, which Bobbitt non-chalantly belittles as a "contemporary textual preconception" reserved only for total wars). - ionel 20 February 2006
[edit] Comments on Declaring War in the Untied States
December 7, 2005
Recently, the Website Yahoo News exhibited an article (Reuters News Article, “US skewed evidence of 1964 Tonkin Attack: document”, December 2, 2005) about the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, which led to the escalation of the second Indochina War or what is more commonly known as the Vietnam War.
The article mentioned that National Security Agency Historian Robert Hanyok cited in a article he wrote that U.S. intelligence officials withheld a majority of the intelligence on the August 4, 1964 alleged North Vietnamese attack on two U.S. naval destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. Hanyok’s article shows how far that U.S. government officials (especially, government officials in the executive branch of the U.S. government system) will go to create a case for the United States to go war. I understand that in certain cases where a good and convincing case can be made to go to war that going to war might be a necessary step that our nation needs to take like the past and present historical examples of the Second World War and the international war versus Al-Qaeda’s ideology. However, in certain cases the case that was made for the U.S. going to war appeared not to be as strong as it could have been like the cases that were made by U.S. government officials for going to war in Vietnam and currently Iraq.
The power to declare that a state of war exist between the United States and some “enemy” or “enemies” lies with the U.S. Congress in the legislative branch of the U.S. government system. The U.S. Congress should only approve a declaration or resolution for making war based on a case of 99.9 percent assuredly made by U.S. government officials in the executive branch of the U.S. government system. Making war is a serious thing and a thing that should be considered very carefully before undertaking such a drastic step.
Anon User. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.247.222.47 (talk • contribs) 2005-12-24T00:35:55.
