Now that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said that Obama has the authority to override Congress in declaring war; now that the US ambassador to Israel Daniel Shaprio has revealed that the US plan to attack Iran is “ready”—it’s time to liberate the US Constitution from the “house arrest” it has been placed under.

One member of the House, Walter Jones, is trying to do that with HCR 107. The bill makes the use of offensive military force by a President without prior authorization by Congress an impeachable offense under article II, section 4 of the Constitution. The basis for this bill is article I, section 8, which states that the power to declare war resides with Congress.

So far, the Obama administration (like Bush) has ignored this Constitutional mandate, plunging headfirst into the UN-sanctioned brutal war in Libya, aided by Al Quaida stooges. The same are being deployed in Syria. Iran will be next, and if it is, woe betide all of us. The consensually ignorant together with the wisest among us cannot prepare for a nuclear holocaust, perped by the US, Israel and, likely, China.

Congressman Jones needs public support to give this bill momentum.

by Doretta Wildes
http://dorettawildes.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/get-behind-hcr-107/