Who's the Commander-in-Chief: Is Congress Going Too Far By Setting a Deadline for U.S. Troops To Leave Iraq?

Speaker:

• Glenn Sulmasy, National Security Commentator

Some members of Congress are attempting to use the "power of the purse" to place restrictions on the Bush Administration's conduct of the war in Iraq. Those restrictions include a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and the imposition of benchmarks for the Iraqi government to meet in military affairs. Critics of the proposed requirements argue that Congress is attempting to micromanage the war, thereby infringing on the President's authority as commander-in-chief in violation of the separation-of-powers principle. Proponents of the restrictions contend that Congress has every right to sets conditions on the expenditure of any funds that it appropriates.

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