I wrote about the Democrats’ ignoring the Constitution Friday night because they’re attempting to rewrite the AUMF for Iraq and putting that legislation in “anti-terrorism legislation scheduled to be debated later. According to this Washington Post article, Mitch McConnell has let Reid know that that won’t happen. In fact, Sen. McConnell, who’s fast becoming my favorite GOP legislator, has some demands of his own:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned yesterday that a new Democratic effort to repeal the 2002 Iraq war resolution would meet the same fate as two previous efforts to limit President Bush’s authority: blocked by procedural obstacles, unless Democrats relent to GOP terms.

Speaking to reporters by conference call from his Louisville home, McConnell compared the latest Democratic move to “trying to unring a bell.” He warned that Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the U.S. military commander in Iraq, would “have to surround himself with lawyers” to comply with the new resolution that senior Democrats are drafting.

McConnell predicted he could muster Republican support to block the measure, unless Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-NV) allows a vote on a nonbinding GOP measure to guarantee troop funding.

McConnell’s got Reid painted into such a tight corner that he can’t move. Reid can’t afford to let the GOP resolution see the light of day because he’d be chastised by the anti-American Nutroots coalition. That coalition would also stop sending their campaign contributions, something that Democrats can’t afford at this point. As long as Reid listens to his Nutroots masters’ demands to end the war, McConnell’s Republicans will thwart them.

Biden responded in a CNN interview that while the Constitution allows Bush to conduct war, it does so “only if the Congress gave him the authority in the first place. We are repealing the initial authority,” Biden said. “And by the way, the United States Constitution cannot be trumped by the United Nations. It cannot be trumped by it. The implementation act of the United Nations treaty, when we passed it, said, it depends upon the Congress’s authority.”

That is one of the most laughable quotes I’ve ever heard. Hearing a Democrats say that the U.S. Constitution can’t be trumped by the U.N. has probably given fainting spells to John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich and other peaceniks. That isn’t the only part of that quote that’s laughable. Biden’s quote sounds like stripping the President’s authorization is a done deal, which he knows isn’t the case. In fact, I’m arguing that their repealing the authorization doesn’t have a chance of not getting filibustered into submission.

Even if Biden’s bill got to the President’s desk, which it won’t, it wouldn’t take effect because President Bush would veto the legislation.

I love this parting shot from Sen. McConnell:

“If the Senate doesn’t support the mission in Iraq, it has only one option, and that’s to decide whether or not to fund that mission,” McConnell said. “That’s our constitutional role, and we shouldn’t drag this into the morass of Democratic presidential primary politics.”

OUCH.

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1. Here is a dose of truth from a retired brigadier general .

   Brigadier General Says Israel is the problem not Iraq

   Questions and Answers about Iraq and Israel

   by James J. David a retired Brigadier General
   Jan 7, 2003

   (James J. David is a retired Brigadier General and a graduate of the U.S.Army’s Command and General Staff College, and the National Security Course, National Defense University, Washington, DC. He served as a Company Commander with the 101st Airborne Division in the Republic of Vietnam in 1969 and 1970 and also served nearly 3 years of Army active duty in and around the Middle East from 1967-1969.)

   Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear
   non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q: Which country in the Middle East seized the sovereign territory of
   other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q: Which country in the Middle East routinely violates the international borders of another sovereign state with warplanes and artillery and naval gunfire?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q: What American ally in the Middle East has for years sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies (a practice sometimes called exporting terrorism)?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q: What country in the Middle East created 762,000 refugees and refuses to allow them to return to their homes, farms and businesses?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it confiscated?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q: In what country in the Middle East was a high-ranking United Nations diplomat assassinated?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q: In what country in the Middle East did the man who ordered the
   assassination of a high-ranking U.N. diplomat become prime minister?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q: What country in the Middle East blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship, the USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 and wounding 171 American sailors?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q: What country in the Middle East employed a spy, Jonathan Pollard, to steal classified documents and then gave some of them to the Soviet Union?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q: What country at first denied any official connection to Pollard, then voted to make him a citizen and has continuously demanded that the American president grant Pollard a full pardon?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q. What Middle East country allows American Jewish murderers to flee to its country to escape punishment in the United States and refuses to extradite them once in their custody?
   Answer: Israel

   Q. What Middle East country preaches against hate yet builds a shrine and a memorial for a murderer who killed 29 Palestinians while they prayed in their Mosque.
   Answer: Israel

   Q: What country on Planet Earth has the second most powerful lobby in the United States, according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q. Which country in the Middle East deliberately targeted a U.N. Refugee Camp in Qana, Lebanon and killed 103 innocent men, women, and especially children?
   Answer: Israel

   Q: Which country in the Middle East is in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council resolutions and has been protected from 29 more by U.S. vetoes?
   Answer: Israel.

   Q. Which country in the Middle East receives more than one-third of all U.S. aid yet is the 16th richest country in the world?
   Answer: Israel

   Q. Which country in the Middle East receives U.S. weapons for free and then sells the technology to the Republic of China even at the objections of the U.S.?
   Answer: Israel

   Q. Which country in the Middle East routinely insults the American people by having its Prime Minister address the United States Congress and lecturing them like children on why they have no right to reduce foreign aid?
   Answer: Israel

   Q. Which country in the Middle East had its Prime Minister announce to his staff not to worry about what the United States says because “We control America?”
   Answer: Israel

   Q. What country in the Middle East was cited by Amnesty International for demolishing more than 4000 innocent Palestinian homes as a means of ethnic cleansing.
   Answer: Israel

   Q. Which country in the Middle East has just recently used a weapon of mass destruction, a one-ton smart bomb, dropping it in the center of a highly populated area killing 15 civilians including 9 children?
   Answer: Israel

   Q. Which country in the Middle East routinely kills young Palestinian
   children for no reason other than throwing stones at armored
   vehicles, bulldozers, or tanks?
   Answer: Israel

   Q. Which country in the Middle East signed the Oslo Accords promising to halt any new Jewish Settlement construction, but instead, has built more than 270 new settlements since the signing?
   Answer: Israel

   Q. Which country in the Middle East has assassinated more than 100
   political officials of its opponent in the last 2 years while killing hundreds of civilians in the process, including dozens of children?
   Answer: Israel

   Q.. Which country in the Middle East regularly violates the Geneva
   Convention by imposing collective punishment on entire towns, villages, and camps, for the acts of a few, and even goes as far as demolishing entire villages while people are still in their homes?
   Answer: Israel

   Q: What country in the Middle East is the United States threatening to attack because of fear that it may be a threat to us and to our allies?
   Answer: Iraq

   Comment by Hat Pines — February 25, 2007 @ 12:12 pm

2. Hat Pines you use the same logic and understanding that Al Gore uses for Global warming.

   Do you mind if I ask your political affiliation? Duh! Did you see the conclusion of the voter fraud investigation in Florida? Inability to read [illiterate] just like in 2000! Yet JoeBobBillyDon plays the delusional intellectual superiority parrot talking point act! 13% illiterate voters voted for the wrong party! Perhaps before busing to the polls, ability to read should be checked,not just giving away cigs and booze.

   And Hat Pines, for your info, we have already attacked Iraq! And Iran has already declared war on us during the Jihimmi Carter years!

   JBBD you might double your dose for a few weeks until your delusions are under better control.

   Comment by SEW — February 25, 2007 @ 1:47 pm

3. Hat Pines , I cannot read long garbage points - so I won’t - get to the point, Mental.

   Comment by deedeefrump — February 25, 2007 @ 2:23 pm

4. Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
   -John Stuart Mill

   Comment by Zachary — February 25, 2007 @ 3:12 pm

5. Ha ha, John Stuart Mill was a moron.

   His life thesis was ‘nature kills animals’, by hurricanes, fires and earthquakes. Imbecile, if you ask me. Anyone champions a retard like that must be one. Ha ha a pre-modern moonbat, ha ha

   Comment by dadeeba — February 25, 2007 @ 5:53 pm

6. Hey SEW. Let us know when you finish your GED. I’m not holding my breath for that would surely be one of the signs of the apocalypse. If you do, however, manage to overcome that hurdle, I’ll gladly write you a recommendation for MIT. You’ll have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting in but I figure your application would give the admissions board a good laugh or three. You should spread that love around.

   Comment by BillyJoeJimBob — February 25, 2007 @ 6:16 pm

7. You forgot one Hat. Whats the only western country that has so far at least, shown itself to be capable of standing up for its own interests, even if it means telling the self exalted UN to go to hell?

   Isreal.

   Comment by T. A. Gray — February 25, 2007 @ 8:05 pm

8. What garbage. You could just as easily make a long list of points like:

   Q:”What country has been invaded three times by it’s neighbors who stated their express intention was genocide of the Jews?”
   A: “Israel”
   Q:”In what middle Eastern country did the common citizenry NOT dance for joy on Sep11 at the sight of American civilians being burned alive?”
   A:” Israel.”

   Etc etc etc..

   I could, but I won’t, because I’m not a mentally deficient one-issue obsessive internet nut.

   Here’s my take. “While not all morons are anti Semites, all anti-Semites are morons.”

   You’re a pathetic inadequate human being, “Hat Pines”, but I guess, like the rat and the cockroach, the jew-hater will always be with us.

   Comment by Amos — February 25, 2007 @ 8:35 pm

9. I have seen the light, dadeeba… only animals kill animals. Oh, if I’d only known!

   Moron.

   Comment by Zachary — February 25, 2007 @ 10:47 pm

10. And Hat Pines, for your info, we have already attacked Iraq!

    Yes, we did.

    And what has been happening there these past four years proves that General David was right!

    Comment by Hat Pines — February 26, 2007 @ 12:14 am

11. “Which country in the Middle East has assassinated more than 100 political officials of its opponent in the last 2 years”

    Uhh. I say Taliban and Al Qaeda, but actually they have killed more than 100 high political Afghanis, Iraqis and other tribal and political figures in the last two years. So the idiot posting this crap cannot be talking about them. But I think that moron that posted this must have been impersonating his Hitler persona, a anotehr run-of-the-mill racist jew-haters, radical Islam lover.

    Comment by zapper — February 26, 2007 @ 1:15 am