that category. bill: michael moore. michael moore. they not only don t feel comfortable with the use of american force, not only do they detest the pentagon, not only is ralph nader part of an antiwar group, which is fine, but he is, but barack obama isn t their kind of liberal. bill: all right. but you say that the standard liberal people, not the far left liberal people. right. bill: interesting what the daily kos. they will probably all coalesce behind him, i can imagine, i would think. yeah. you are not going to get an editorial in the new york times that says barack obama is behaving like george w. bush would have behaved in this. he should have gone to congress. he should have got some kind of resolution. he is a cowboy, but he is from hawaii and not it isn t going to happen. it isn t going to happen. this is their in the bigger sense, this is their candidate. this is the guy that they fell in love with and corrupted
bill: how about for afghanistan. same in 2001. bill: he got resolutions to do everything across the board? right. bill: i stand corrected. right. and, look, our view was he didn t need to do it because while under article 1 section 8 the congress is given the authority to declare war, the president under article 2 section 1 is authorized to is designated first and foremost for the army and the militia. the president has certain powers as commander and chief. we thought it was in the interest of the country to unify the country and get clarity. bill: no doubt about that. i m sorry i made that mistake. you had a good question though. i think i have a theory. my theory is that president obama let in essence his statements get ahead of the policy. they now have a european led effort at the united nations that got a resolution authorizing action it did not
go and spend this kind of money. tomahawk missiles cost more than a million dollars a shot, okay? you don t do this to protect people with no end game. there has to be an end game. first of all. one minor thing. those missiles are 600 and some odd thousand, $700,000 minor difference. one other correction. earlier you said bush did not go to congress. bush went to congress before going to afghanistan getting a resolution from congress in 2001 and before he went to iraq. we obviously had the iraq war resolution voted in 2002. the president didn t need to do those things. bill: i think what coverage i meant and what dennis kucinich also was saying that there wasn t a resolution for war. two resolutions one from congress in 2001, and one from congress in 2002 for iraq.
bill: how about for afghanistan. same in 2001. bill: he got resolutions to do everything across the board? right. bill: i stand corrected. right. and, look, our view was he didn t need to do it because while under article 1 section 8 the congress is given the authority to declare war, the president under article 2 section 1 is authorized to is designated first and foremost for the army and the militia. the president has certain powers as commander and chief. we thought it was in the interest of the country to unify the country and get clarity. bill: no doubt about that. i m sorry i made that mistake. you had a good question though. i think i have a theory. my theory is that president obama let in essence his statements get ahead of the policy. they now have a european led effort at the united nations that got a resolution authorizing action it did not
bill: how about for afghanistan. same in 2001. bill: he got resolutions to do everything across the board? right. bill: i stand corrected. right. and, look, our view was he didn t need to do it because while under article 1 section 8 the congress is given the authority to declare war, the president under article 2 section 1 is authorized to is designated first and foremost for the army and the militia. the president has certain powers as commander and chief. we thought it was in the interest of the country to unify the country and get clarity. bill: no doubt about that. i m sorry i made that mistake. you had a good question though. i think i have a theory. my theory is that president obama let in essence his statements get ahead of the policy. they now have a european led effort at the united nations that got a resolution authorizing action it did not say regime change.