Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 19, 2012

Mitt Romney may be the first presidential candidate to commit an impeachable offense before even being elected to the office he seeks.

In an interview on the CBS program Face the Nation, Romney addressed the prospect of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon.

?I can assure you if I?m president, the Iranians will have no question ? that I will be willing to take military action, if necessary, to prevent them from becoming a nuclear threat to the world,? Romney told interviewer Bob Schieffer. ?I don?t believe ? if I?m president, we will need a war powers approval or special authorization for military force. The president has that capacity now.?

Given that Iran has not committed or threatened aggression against the United States, the action Romney describes would be aggressive war ? which is a crime under any applicable standard. Furthermore, by promising to order that strike without a declaration of war, Romney has pledged to commit an impeachable offense. 

Granted, Barack Obama committed the same crime when he ordered a military attack on Libya without congressional involvement of any kind. Romney, however, expressed contempt for the president?s constitutional duties even before taking the oath of office.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.