Today everyone thinks he is the Commander in Chief

What is going on now with regard to the president’s troop surge in Iraq is proof positive that there are not three politicians in America today smart enough to have made a positive contribution to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The 55 delegates to the Philadelphia Convention that gave us our Constitution had a broad understanding of things military, commercial, governmental and most of all they had an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of free men.

Today the politicians have a broad understanding of how to pander to a constituency. They seem more men of convenience than of conviction. The Iraq War Resolution Passed the House 296-133 with 126 Democrats voting Yea and passed the Senate 77 to 23 with 25 Democrats voting yea. Public support for the war was over 70% at the start. Now many of the sunshine patriots and summer soldiers who voted for the war think that they should be president. And so, in an effort to appeal to the uninformed and maintain their own political viability, these pillars of silly putty are undermining the US and the war they voted for by sounding as if they opposed the war from the start.

The 55 delegates at the Philadelphia Convention knew that a nation could not fight a war with 55, 155, 255 or 535 commanders. So the Founders inserted Section 2, Clause 1 into Article II of the Constitution – “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;”. Pretty darn clear isn’t it? Not clear enough apparently for the men of convenience who after voting for the war now want to run the war. They are dividing up into camps each proposing a different strategy to quit rather than win.

Rare indeed is a profile in courage that will stand with the Commander and proclaim, “This body authorized this Commander in Chief the authority to go to war in Iraq. It is now our responsibility to provide the means necessary to win the war.” How gratifying it must be to al Qaida, Hamas, Hezbollah et al to see the spineless jellyfish that make up America’s body politic today. How disappointing it must be to the Founders.