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Originally Posted by ratbastid
This is the equivalent of saying "Nuh-unh." You can do better.
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I simply don't understand where you want to take this.
I certainly accept the fact that a President has power and can act on his own initiative without consulting others. However, in our form of government his acts are validated or invalidated by the actions (or inactions) of the other branches. Therefore I do not accept the broad concept of the President being able to act unilaterally, especially when it comes to matters like war, torture, habeas corpus, etc.. Certainly, I can accept the flaws in our system relative to timing. My question to you was was regarding the timing issue. The President can ask others to execute a decision based on his sole judgment. However, even that requires complicity on the part of others for execution of his decision and is therefore not unilateral. If the President fails to uphold the law of the land, our other branches have an immediate obligation to address that situation in my opinion. Again, in my view that is not "unilateral".
I don't know how to express my view on this any different. If what I have presented is saying "Nuh-unh", so be it. I think some of you just want to be able to say the "unpleasant" things are all about Bush and not take any responsibility for our current situation. In my view that is simply disingenuous.