When War Begins: Misleading Statements by PresidentsThe Law Library of Congress is proud to present a new statement focusing on war initiation. It is available in its entirety in PDF on our website.
Louis Fisher, "When War Begins: Misleading Statements by Presidents." A House subcommittee in 2009 held a hearing on legislation designed to apply criminal penalties to Presidents and executive officials who mislead Congress and the American people on the need to go to war. This article reviews examples from the Mexican War in 1846 to the Iraq War of 2003 where misleading and false statements from the executive branch led the country into war. The framers would not have been surprised by that pattern. It was for that reason they placed the decision to initiate war in Congress and the deliberative process, not in legislative deference to executive assertions.
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