@Hogan - "WHAT is the last book you read?" I'm WRITING a book. It's called "America TeaBagged - How the Republican party's incessant preaching of hatred is like NAZISM." For a copy, please email me at ray_ancel@yahoo.com

@Hogan - Many Tea Party now say, "As I recall, it was Congress that forced the Marines out of Lebanon." Ronald Wilson Reagan was the C-in-C in 1983. Do you know what that means? U.S. President Ronald Reagan called the attack a "despicable act" and pledged to keep a military force in Lebanon. (just blathering and bloviating?) Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who had privately advised the administration against ever having stationed U.S. Marines in Lebanon, said there would be no change in U.S. Lebanon policy. Vice President George H. W. Bush toured the Marine bombing site on October 26 and said the U.S. "would not be cowed by terrorists." (the Republican administration WAS!) Where was the...

I give Ronald Reagan a hearty well done in having the 51 American hostages held at the US embassy in Tehran returned safely home. However, he made a big mistake by having 241 U.S. Marines used as hostages in Beirut, Lebanon in October, 1983. A bomb-laden truck, driven by a Shia Iran-sponsored terrorist drove into the U.S Marine base and killed 241 Americans. The Commander-in-Chief had given the order that the sentries protecting the base were forbidden, by formal "rules of engagement," to not have BULLETS in their rifles. A colossal blunder by Ronald Wilson Reagan and we simply left Lebanon a few months later.

The American Dream Downpayment Act was passed when George W. Bush was president, Denny Hastert(R) was Speaker of the House and Bill Frist(R) was Senate Majority Leader. Many Republicans talk about the Community Re-Investment Act but are curiously silent about George Bush's and the Republican Party's prerogatives. President George W. Bush readily took up the homeownership baton at the start of his administration in 2001. Owning a home became one pillar of his "ownership society", a vision in which everyone would possess a stake in the American economy. In the summer 2002, Bush challenged lenders to add 5.5 million new minority homeowners by the end of the decade; in 2003 he signed the American Dream Downpayment Act. Capiche?

@Tin - Did Ronald Wilson Reagan get Congressional authority (Declaration of War) to do Operation El Dorado Canyon in 1986?

Did Ronald Wilson Reagan get Congressional authority to bomb and commits acts of war against Libya in 1986?

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Did Ronald Wilson Reagan get authority to commit an act of war by sending in US Marines into Lebanon in October, 1983 and then not allowing these US Marines to even defend themselves? CAPICHEjQuery15209233188488723895_1311893728589

Did Ronald Wilson Reagan get authority to commit an act of war by sending in US Marines into Lebanon in October, 1983 and then not allowing these US Marines to even defend themselves? CAPICHEjQuery15209233188488723895_1311893728588

Does a president need Congressional auth. to start bombing Iran?