President McKinley and Iraq...

When President McKinley decided that the American military should fight the Spanish forces in Cuba, he established a precedent which has carried forth until today.

Under the doctrine he established, Americans have subsuquently died in Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Iraq, Lebanon, and various other places around the globe, though no clear danger to the American homeland was present.

According to the principles espoused by our founding fathers, the United States government was only supposed to employ the military for the defense of the country when it was under a direct threat.

At the end of the 19th century, our federal government lost its way and began operating outside of the enumerated powers given it via the Constitution.

Once again, the facts of the matter demonstrate why the federal government MUST be restrained to clearly written powers, with any power not explicitly given it retained by the States and/or the People who comprise the Republic.