Or next thing you know there will be no voting at all. At some point decisions need to be justified.

Dogfish, how many lives did Clinton cost by lying about s*x? You do know he's been out of office for three years now don't you?
Was Washington lying when he said "I cannot tell a lie"? He probably was so that justifies both Clinton and Bush.

We are trying for nine pages here so maybe the new question should be: Should the president of the United States be required to justify waging war at all? If so why?