European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 31, 1994 commentary the stars and stripes Page ,17. To come out of dark David Copperfield has been magic s top banana. No More. / the Best trick he Ever managed was to make the statue of Liberty disappear on congressional oversight. Big Deal.  -. It was Back  headlines could. Be set in Type. The  then and we in cat now  said m an a i i 1 news conf Breiu e. We did not think the in m l-a-.1 w tvo  \ Joi  we air Diing. In  the a jell  no a athon a 4s noun us Nixon who shortly after taking office also adopted the lbs justification. Ironically the attack on that position was waged by none other than Arkansas sen. J. William Fulbright at whose knee the Young Clinton had reportedly devel oped his anti War views. It is the executive s View manifested in both words and actions Fulbright s Senate committee on foreign relations said in May 1970, that the president in his capacity As commander in chief is prop Erly empowered to commit the armed forces to hostilities in foreign countries. It is the committee s View conviction May be the better word that the authority to initiate War As distinguished from acting to repel a sudden attack is vested by the Constitution in the Congress and in the Congress  it can be argued that Reagan s 1983 invasion of Grenada ostensibly to Rescue . Students and his 1986 attack on Libya in response to the terrorist bomb ing of a Berfan disco that killed two . Service Mem ers were justified As a proper exercise of presidential Power. So was Clinton s launch of Tomahawk missiles against Baghdad Iraq in 11w in response to an iraqi plot to assassinate former president Bush. And while Bush s december in invasion of Panama a i a throwback he compensated for that lapse by seeking congressional approval Albejt at the ill hour before waging a in the persian Tiu i. He did can though like Camion today he had a  Sivu Iii c Council mandate to iric Allne  Harry g. Summers before the . Commits combat forces abroad said defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger in his 1984weinberger doctrine there must be some reasonable Assurance we will have the support of the american people and their elected representatives in the Congress. We cannot fight a Battle with the con Gress at Home while asking our troops to win a War  after a 40-year hiatus since president Truman also with a . Security Council Resolution in hand broke with tradition and took America to War in Korea without seeking a declaration of War from the Congress America was finally Back on track. Last May Clinton himself reaffirmed that move with his approval of a peacekeeping directive. One of the preconditions he prescribed for . Mili tary involvement abroad was that Domestic and con Gressional support exists or can be  failure to heed that Rule had earlier caused mrio be waylaid by the Senate which threatened to Cut off All funds for . Forces in Somalia unless an immediate Date was set for their withdrawal. Sen. Robert Byrd d-w.va., who controls the purse strings As chairman of the Senate appropriations com Mittee said he wanted to Send Clinton i Basic civics lesson. Former new York mayor i d Koch once told a group of elderly women that even after a local judge who was soft on crime had been mugged he said he was still a Liberal. Mug him again was their cry Clinton Loo May need u be mugged again by Congress before the Basic it vacs lesson on War making Powers sinks a i a i Huhti v Bush v.j-, App Kuig one of \ Maun Vav a. In in of he the opinion a pro re in the column and on  Page re Peru tit Thoice of he authors and or ill of Ihfe Star and sushi or the i Niue Suto i uni Cunt