I am not surprised that no one is willing to take the credit for this bit of dead-tree idiocy.
Who should be deciding US policy on Iraq?
When President Bush addresses the nation tonight, he is expected to endorse a version of what’s come to be known on Capitol Hill as the Petraeus Report.
That strategy, set out by Army Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker this week, recommends a drawdown by July to roughly the same number of combat troops that were in Iraq in January, before the president added 30,000 soldiers.
But a growing number of lawmakers, on both sides of the aisle, are chafing at the recommendation and its source.
Generals, no matter how respected, shouldn’t set U.S. policy, they say. Congress should, in a bipartisan way.
It must have been all that college these folks took that screwed up their high school civics lessons.
Ladies and gents, I give you Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton
Accurate and comprehensive knowledge of foreign politics; a steady and systematic adherence to the same views; a nice and uniform sensibility to national character; decision, SECRECY, and despatch, are incompatible with the genius of a body so variable and so numerous.
Alexander Hamilton: The Federalist Papers #75 “The Treaty Making Power of the Executive”
And that was when there were only Congressmen for thirteen states and none of them were running off to Syria and demanding reparations for Iraqis.
Quote found at Outside the Wire
This shit really makes my blood boil. These congressmen either (1) have such ignorance to our founding charter that they have no business serving in office; really, how can they possibly preserve, protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic without even a 2nd grade understanding of said Constitution? Or(2) even more insulting, they DO understand the Constitution, and believe we idiot voters don’t.
A perview of the present members of the House and Senate would seem to indicate that option #2 is the case. We are truly doomed.