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Our judicial system will ultimately decide what the Executive, as well as the Congressional branch of governments, can and cannot do.
May I remind everyone that the United States is in a war. The war has not been officially declared by Congress (the only branch of government that has the authority to issue a formal declaration of war), but both the House and the Senate over whelmingly voted to provide the President with the power to engage in war. This is backed by around 70% approval of the people. It has already been stated that the war may last 10 years or longer. During war the American people will have to suffer certain sacrifices, just as they did during the Second World War. This war is equally as serious as any war that the US has ever engaged in, though the tactics of the enemy are different than previous wars. The government will do, and should do, what ever our courts decide is legal for the government to do, to protect the people of this country and conduct the war against our enemies.
People, mostly of the European persuasion, that keep harping about an invasion of Iraq being all about oil, are just short minded. A large number of our enemies live in the mid-east. The taking of Iraq is a strategic piece of real estate, militarily speaking. If any one bothers to check a gloabal map, it is easy to see. If oil is a by product of strategic postioning then so much the better. Let no one be fooled. The US is at war, engaged in a long term war, and will do whatever it deems necessary to protect its people and engage the enemy, no matter whose toes are stepped on or who protests our methods.
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