[Vision2020] RE: Living document

[thansen@moscow.com]

Just a mild reminder.  Wasn't it George W. Sr. that stopped General Schwarzkopf 
from marching on Baghdad in '91 when the U.S. had total support from the 
alliance?

Tom Hansen
Moscow

> Yea but we made Al Gore Caesar, not GW.  GW's daddy bought him the
> election.
> 
> John
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas [mailto:dougwils@moscow.com] 
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:52 AM
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Living document
> 
>  
> 
> Dear visionaries,
> 
> As Pogo put it, we have met the enemy and he is us.
> 
> If the Constitution says that Congress is to declare war, not the
> president, and this is blown off as a bit of constitutional arcana, then
> why is not the 1st Amendment equally arcane? The 2nd Amendment? Or, more
> to the point, the 9th and 10th?
> 
> The bad news is that when you make something malleable, as progressives
> have diligently sought to do to the Constitution for generations, you
> one day wake up to find that a malleable Constitution can stretch in any
> direction, left or right, up or down. It is not enough to shrill in a
> discontent way about the consequences, it is necessary to see how those
> consequences have arisen.
> 
> Caesar has declared war. I don't know why those who made him Caesar
> don't want to follow him.
> 
> Cordially,
> 
> Douglas Wilson
> 
> 


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