Wed Jan 31, 2007
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?storyid=2007-01-31T084203Z_01_N30329230_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ-USA-CONGRESS.xml&type=worldNews&WTmodLoc=World-C3-More-3WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress has the power to end the war in Iraq, a former Bush administration attorney and other high-powered legal experts told a Senate hearing on Tuesday
Four out of five experts called before the Senate Judiciary Committee said Congress could go even further and restrict or stop U.S. involvement in Iraq if it chose.
"I think the constitutional scheme does give Congress broad authority to terminate a war," said Bradford Berenson, a Washington lawyer who was a White House associate counsel under Bush from 2001 to 2003.
"It is ultimately Congress that decides the size, scope and duration of the use of military force," said Walter Dellinger, former acting solicitor general, the government's chief advocate before the Supreme Court, in 1996-97.
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