Constructive criticism

Sometimes the wing dings like to complain that we on the Left have no constructive criticism, only Icomplaining comments and snipings. "Yes but what would YOU do different?" and, like that.

Well, I'm sick of it, and Besides there's nothing to it. So but just to prove them wrong, I'm going to submit a Constructive critisicm which I'm have about the Bushies and the (wrong) Iraq war.

It starts from the observation that, although Congress had to vote to approve War Powers for the actual war, somehow, here in this country (supposedly "democratic") we found ourselves in the Runup-to the Iraq war without any discussion, debate, or votes whatsoever.

You can see or hear this in any news story about that period of time: "During the Runup-to the war last year..."; "...a key part of his argument in the Runup-to the war"; "...sexed up intelligence for the Runup-to the war", etc. I take these to mean that the Runup-to the war was, The period of time for about 6-10 months prior to the war's start (March 2003).

So, , But I got to thinking. "Who even decided that we should enter into a Runup-to a war in the first place???" I thought. Of course the answer is: Bush did - unilaterally - with no debate - with no votes. Just one flick of his wrist and BOOM we're all of the sudden we're find ourselves in a Runup-to some phony war which NONE of us wants.

I never wanted to be in a Runup-to a war! And nobody asked me! Or my representative! The reason this is a big deal is, It seemed (to me) (causal observer lay person) that, Once we found ourselves in that Runup-to the war (which - remember - Bush did unilaterally NO VOTE), the war was almost an inevitability.

This is essentially practically like a loophole the Bushies have found for circumnavigating the Constitution!

This should not stand. This's is supposed to be a DEMOCRACY people. How on EARTH have we slipped this far into tyranny?

So, to fix it, here's what we should do. Pass a Constitutional amendment stating that the country CANNOT enter into a Runup-to ANY war, without a majority vote of both houses of Congress.

Simple, easy, and directly fixes the problem. No more bootstrapped wars by (undemocratically) beginning a Runup-to and then (after the Runup has succeeded) taking some phony War Powers vote; make the President get Congress's authorization at the start, before any Runup begins in the FIRST PLACE.

So never let it be said (anymore) that the Left doesn't have any POSITIVE ideas.