The President is required to immediately go back to Congress for Authorization to Keep Troops in Iraq!

The Current military situation in Iraq does not reflect the originally stated Immediate National Threat Presented to Congress for the authorization of Use of Force. The subsequent use of American armed forces and financial expenditures to support such forces under these new conditions have not been authorized by Congress or the American People.

The Administration must realize that it does not have the legal authority to promote its failed war policy outside its original stated national threat mandate. United States Military force has not been authorized to support one side or the other of the religious sectarian violence within Iraq, no more than it would be authorized to support a particular religious group within America. There is a separation of Church and State in America and that holds true in democracies we are fostering around the world. American military Men and Women have not been sent to Iraq no are we authorized by any law, to intercede militarily to impose or support a type of religious belief either Sunni or Shiite within the country of Iraq.

Tax dollar expenditures in the billions and American lives of over 2,500 have currently been spent to eliminate the immediate threat Iraq posed to America and this has been done. Any further military actions or monetary expenditures against Iraq outside the original congressional mandate are illegal under American Law and International Law and would open Americans up to Civil and Criminal liabilities.

- Posted by Michael C. Boetjer, Captain U.S. Army, Double Blue Star Father, Fort Wayne, Indiana