Kerry calls for Iraqis to ‘come together,’ as militants seize more territory | Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\nHowever, you can also put part of this train-wreck squarely at the feet of Congress, as well.<\/p>\n
Remember that\u00a0while Obama may be the Commander-in-Chief, it is\u00a0the Congress<\/em> that has the power to make war. \u00a0If it does so, then it is President’s responsibility to execute it. \u00a0In fact, one could go so far as to say that Boehner’s accusation of the President “napping” is hypocritical. \u00a0If there is something to be done militarily it is actually Boehner’s<\/em> responsibility to initiate it, not<\/em> <\/strong>Obama’s, according to Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.<\/p>\nIn regards to our military, there has been a steady decline of Congress in shouldering its responsibilities. \u00a0This has been the case whether it is the initiation of military action, \u00a0management of military resources or SOFA’s. \u00a0You really should read Article 1, Section 8 if you haven’t. \u00a0It’s short, clear and a real eye-opener. \u00a0If you don’t really understand what “civilian control of the military” means, this will answer it for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Right. \u00a0No first of all, the administration response to the mess caused by Obama in Iraq is pathetic. \u00a0Kerry’s “come together” call is right up there with Rodney King’s “Can’t we all just get along.” Kerry calls for Iraqis to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yCHs-P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}