by JDHURF » Thu May 10, 2018 5:21 am
Interesting that you've read and outright ignored my PM. That's a rather revealing and pathetic statement about yourself.
You’re simply incorrect. It’s a matter of documentary record that Governor Geary deployed the over 1,000 federal troops to keep the proslavery paramilitaries from swarming Lawrence and the Free-soil paramilitary groups. It was not President Pierce who did so. In fact, President Pierce disavowed sustained troop deployment.
You don’t appear to understand that bleeding Kansas was one of the central events preceding the Civil War. The Civil War was f**k obviously a violent severance from Constitutional law. “States’ rights” and all that confederate, fascist horseshit. The federal government, the free-soil state governments and the military and paramilitary forces were not well orchestrated and organized, for obvious reasons, in responding to the events preceding secession and full civil war.
I didn’t “characterize” the few instances in which the United States declared war as anything. I was describing the instances in which the military was engaged, be it under a declaration of war, specific statutory authorization, such as in Bosnia, or in response to a national emergency “created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.”
To have an informed discussion of these issues you must first understand the framework. I’ve already cited the three instances. It is not restricted to a declaration of war. Your consistent distortion of this is incredibly disingenuous frivolity and perpetrated for transparently shallow reasons of ego defense mechanisms.
Your frantic and desperate accusations of obfuscation is yet again your transparent projections of your own ignorance. Clinton sent letters to Senators Byrd and Gingrich describing plans for troop deployments which were received with approval. It’s amazing to recall that Gingrich supported Clinton on the issue, given all of the budget and other fights. Dole’s bumbling, elderly ass, after initially being quite oppositional, even himself came ‘round to support. In ’95 the House voted 287-141 to support troop deployment. The Senate voted 69-30 to support the troops with reservations about the policy. This is all a matter of the historical, documentedary record.
That you continue to ignore the myriad of other points I've made, deciding to distort a few isolated points to furiously slander, is pathological. It's a shame, as it could be an interesting and entertaining discussion.