Reply #27: Excuse me, it would be ILLEGAL for the republican party to do that.

[Kurska]

Just as It is ILLEGAL for hezbollah to do it both under international law and Lebanon's domestic law.

When not working THROUGH the government, even members of the current government are restricted to the same laws as the average citizen. It is the government made up of political parties that has the right to buy such weapons, not the political parties themselves.

This is basic civics, just because I have a seat in the senate wouldn't give me the right to start smuggling in anti-aircraft missles and set them up on mountain tops.