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Lawsuit Challenges Bush Authority on Iraq
A group of U.S. soldiers, parents of soldiers, and six U.S. House members filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday seeking to stop the president from launching a war against Iraq without a declaration of war from Congress. The lawsuit seeks an immediate injunction against Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to prevent them from launching an invasion of Iraq.

Conyers cited an excerpt from Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution that states, "Congress shall have power ... to declare war.

Get it? Only Congress!
Bush is rushing to war without seeking approval or even a thorough debate by Congress. "We have a message for President Bush today — read the Constitution." Anything else is unconstitutional. It's illegal. The president is not a king. He does not have the power to wage war against another country absent a declaration of war from Congress. (Congress has not formally declared a war since World War II.)

IMPORTANT NOTE about the bravery of our government leaders:
The people planning the war aren't facing the possibility their loved ones will be killed.

In addition to the six members of Congress, soldiers have asked for the injunction. They are facing the possibility of death. One of the plaintiffs, Nancy Lessin, said the people planning the war aren't facing the possibility their loved ones will be killed. She said she has 25-year-old twin stepsons, one of whom is in the Marines. "We'd like to challenge George Bush to send one of his twins to war. Then let's have a discussion about whether or not we should go to war," she said. (The president has 21-year-old twin daughters.)

posted by Hal 1:55 PM