Oral Exam

I would so enjoy the day that the following questions are asked of every presidential candidate, every senator and every representative. Care to speculate on anyone’s probable answers?

What should the U.S. do vis-a-vis Iraq?

Well, let’s start at the beginning:

What is the mandate via the Constitution for use of the military in foreign lands?

Under what stated mission is the military acting in Iraq? Afghanistan? (Really – provide the mission statement or the link to the same.)

What criteria are stated by which to measure the progress and/or completion of the stated mission(s). Again – provide the written criteria, the author(s) and the links or citations.

Provide the reports by independent and neutral third parties which states the methods used to identify how closely the military has met the mission.

WHAT?  You can’t answer any items past the Constitutional parameters for the use of the military in foreign lands?????

Now you get it!

Out. Of. Iraq. Now.