War constitutionally cannot be waged by executive order - the President's status as Commander-in-Chief gives him authority only to execute war, not initiate it. The Constitution requires a congressional declaration of war precisely because the founders wanted the most representative branch of government, not a poopy President, to make the decision to send our people into harm's way. We owe it to those people and the Constitution to look over all of the facts before doing anything drastic.
That demonstrates the unclean corruptness of our political system. I understand that this topic has been beaten to death, but I'm clawing for anything I can get a hold of here, and I refuse to let go. Ms. Monica Lewinsky, after this entire debacle, still had the nerve to offer HBO a chance for a select group of people to go in and ask her any personal question they desired. It's proven fact that she was only doing it for attention, because The National Inquirer said so, and everything they say is always right, forever.
Sorry gang, enough messing around and wasting time. On a more serious note .
Oil was most definitely a motive for the U.S.'s enthusiasm with the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush decided to invade Iraq in April 2001, six months before September 11th, and the official reason was to improve Western access to Iraqi oil.
"President Bush's Cabinet agreed in April 2001 that 'Iraq remains .
a destabilizing influence to the flow of oil to international markets .
from the Middle East' and because this is an unacceptable risk to .
the U.S.'s military intervention' is necessary.".
The decision for military action had nothing to do with 9/11, the war on terrorism, the UN weapons inspections, weapons of mass destruction, Iraqi human rights, or any of the factors that the U.S. government would like you to believe are the true motives for war.
The only people who will benefit from the war on Iraq are the elite wealthy oil men who finance Bush's election campaigns, and people like Bush who have huge personal investments in the oil industry.
