Bombing Iraq. Not what I voted for.

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141. You make a strong case for distrust, and I too am very worried that

the use of force in Iraq will not be discriminate and beneficial enough to be justified. I remember arguing with a friend when the US invaded Afghanistan that the campaign would not simply crush Al Qaida and the Taliban with little collateral damage, but would end up being itself a long, indiscriminate and ineffective attempt at nation-building. He concedes now that I was right.

I wish Obama had not lied during his campaign in 2008 about who has the power to take the nation to war. He claimed that Congress did and now he openly claims that he does. Not that I trust Congress, but I do think the power of war is less dangerous when placed in the hands of Congress, and that is what the Founders wisely tried to do. It is hard not to be skeptical about any use of military force when claims about how force will be used are made by the single person in charge who almost never reveals his strategic thinking and who is himself the CIC and a tool of the MIC.