Tuesday, September 3, 2013

War in Syria!

To initiate war with Syria is NOT the call of the President, it is the call of Congress (We the People by proxy).  We the People need to rise up, speak out, and DEMAND that Congress reset the powers of the President to those limits set by the Constitution!

Dear Representative of We the People:

To initiate war with or in Syria is NOT the call of the President, it is the call of Congress (We the People by proxy).  The Constitution is still the supreme law of the land, and Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution says, "The Congress shall have Power To...declare War...To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces...To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."  Article II, Section 2 says, "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States," and as such he is responsible to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.  (See http://www.ucmj.us/about-the-ucmj)  Article II, Section 3 says the President "...shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."  Obviously, the President does not have the legal authority to legislate, declare war, or circumvent the law.  The President is NOT the king and the military is NOT for the President's personal agenda and use.

Prior Presidents have engaged the United States Military in minor wars, resulting in Congress passing the War Powers Resolution. (See http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/war_powers)  The War Powers Resolution specifically restricts Presidential power, such as requiring 48 hours notice to Congress for congressional oversight of any military action and withdrawal of troops after 60 days if military action is not ratified by Congress.  President Obama, however, has many times declared that he is not bound by the limitations imposed by the Constitution and by Congress.  He initiated (i.e., declared) war in Libya, which Congress has never approved, and, getting away with that action, is now intending to initiate war in Syria.  United States military action in Syria may be the catalyst for World War III as Russia and China have both warned against it.  President Obama is in effect furthering the Muslim Brotherhood's global jihad, pitting the U.S. against the rest of the world, and that agenda cannot be tolerated.

United States foreign policy, with regard to the Muslim Brotherhood's 1928 founding goal of restoring the worldwide Islamic Caliphate under Sharia law (http://ikhwanonline.com/), used to be to support in effect secular Muslim leaders (e.g., Saddam Hussein, Egypt's President Mubarack, etc.) who would not likely be engaged in global jihad.  Since the ousting of Saddam Hussein and the Arab Spring began, however, the Muslim Brotherhood and it's global jihad factions have sought to depose such secular Muslim leaders and replace them ("democratically" or otherwise) with global jihad leaders such as President Morsi.  President Obama has sent U.S. troops, arms, fighter jets, and taxpayer funds to assist in the global jihad's seditious goal in many countries.  President Obama has even facilitated the cover up of arming a global jihad group (al Qaeda, our enemy) by murder of American citizens, even an Ambassador, in Benghazi.  Congress cannot continue to passively support such treason by the President.  Such passivity is empowering and emboldening the next step of Syria. 

President Obama's proposed Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Syria is an attempt to render and reserve sole discretion for worldwide military force to the President no matter how loosely affiliated with his stated original goal.  (See http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/09/the-administrations-proposed-syria-aumf-is-very-broad/)  Do you really think We the People have forgotten that Saddam Hussein's use of WMD's on his own people was President Bush's stated reason for the Iraq invasion only to later declare there were no such weapons because they could not be found?  Even then, the war extended to Afghanistan via its affiliation.  Do you really think We the People are unaware that our troops have been held down by suicidal rules of engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan ever since, for over ten years while the global jihad weakened, exhausted, and picked off our troops?  Do you really think We the People are selfish, lazy, and uninformed enough to not care if our President continually acts as the de facto Caliph (leader of the Islamic caliphate) in assisting the global jihad?  Do you think we WANT a Sharia-compliant, Socialist/Communist take over of the United States because our troops are gone?  No.  Please live up to your oath of office to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States" against the domestic threat named Barack Hussein Obama and restore the Presidency to it's Constitutional limitations, voting against President Obama's Syrian overreach agenda.  Impeach President Obama and his entire Administration for treason and restore the Constitution as the supreme law of the land, repealing/striking down via legislation all measures so opposed.  Your action is expected and appreciated.  We the People are awake and watching.