Congressional Cowards WASHINGTON TIMES - May 3, 1999 As President Clinton escalates his costly personal war against Yugoslavia, at our expense, causing even more ethnic cleansing and a monumental refugee calamity, it's refreshing to see that at least one member of Congress has the courage to force our representatives to face their exclusive constitutional "War Powers" responsibility. Even though late in coming forward, Rep. Tom Campbell of California seems to be the congressional "Lone Ranger" who takes his oath of office seriously enough to do the right thing. Get out of Yugoslavia or declare war. How much common sense does it take to realize that different peoples steeped in a violent history of their inability to co-exist cannot be forced to? How many more times will we allow our intelligence to be insulted by the ludicrous question: Define war? How much longer must we endure undeclared, unconstitutional, presidential wars? On the other hand, look who was asked to make that decision. A bunch of constitutionally illiterate congressional cowards. Clearly, Congress should have stopped the madness when the intent of airstrikes was first announced. DANIEL B. JEFFS USE BROWSER [ BACK BUTTON ] TO RETURN TO HOME PAGE....