Congress Should Veto Obama's War In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 BY PATRICK J. BUCHANAN "Congress does not have a whole lot of core responsibilities," said Barack Obama last week in an astonishing remark. For in the Constitution, Congress appears as the first branch of government. And among its enumerative power to tax, coin money, create courts, provide for the common good, raise and support an army, maintain a navy and declare war. But then, perhaps Obama's contempt is justified. For consider Congress' broad assent to news that Obama has decided to attack Syria, a nation that has not attacked us and against which Congress has never authorized a war. Why is Obama making plans to launch cruise missiles on Syria? ... Assad used chemical weapons on his own people last week in the two-year-old Syrian civil war. But who deputized the U.S. to walk the streets of the world pistol-whipping bad actors. Where does our imperial president come off drawing 'red lines' and ordering nations not to cross them. Neither the Security Council nor Congress nor NATO nor the Arab League has authorized war on Syria. Who made Barack Obama the Wyatt Earp or the Global Village. Moreover, where is the evidence that WMDs were used and that it had to Assad who ordered them? Such an attack on Syria makes no sense... Why did the U.S. so swiftly dismiss Assad's offer to have U.N. Inspectors - already in Damascus investigating old charges he or the rebels used poison gas - or go to the site of the latest incidence... Do we not want to know the truth? ... GEORGE H. KUBECK, YOU CAN READ THE REST OF PAT BUCHANAN'S ARTICLE ON THE DRUDGEREPORT TODAY. DO YOU TRUST PRESIDENT OBAMA? HAS HE EVER EXPRESSED CORE AMERICAN VALUES? HE IS PLAYING A PIED PIPER'S CHECKERS GAME WITH AMERICAN ARMED FORCES TO TAKE OUR MINDS OFF FROM HIS IMPEACHABLE CRIMES AT HOME. HE AND HIS SUPPORTERS HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION. READ EDWARD KLEIN'S BOOK,"THE AMATEUR." VOTING HAS CONSEQUENCES AND OUR NATION WILL PAY THE PRICE.