Only Congress has the power to declare war.
That’s what the Constitution says.
Read a number of times until it sinks in
This author worked for the first Bush, yet he's completely stupid. He claims this is unequaled, yet, virtually every president has launched military incursions without Congress's approval.
http://www.kentucky.com/opinion/national-opinions/article143742599.html
Clinton lobbed 950 cruise missiles into Iraq when Monica “happened.” How's that for “unprecedented?”
You must be really young, or so old that you have no brain cells left.
We didn’t declare war in Syria as Reagan did not in Libya.
And?
Trump didn't declare a war. End of story.
Where does it say the president needs a DOW to send the military into combat? John Adams and Jefferson both did. They didn’t understand the constitution, or what?
Only Congress has the power to declare war.
That is true. This was not a declaration of war.
“Only Congress has the power to declare war.”
That is correct. Trump did not declare war. It amounted to the incursion into Pakistan to capture Ben Laden. Or Reagan going into the Caribbean. Or countless other strikes by American presidents.
Yes, it does.
Unfortunately for your ignorant NeverTrump butt, the Constitution specifies no penalty (zero-nada-zip-zilch) for calling the Armed Forces into action absent a declaration of War.
So stick that in your NeverTrump crack pipe and smoke it, K?
The Congress, of course, is at liberty to impeach any President who wages war against the will of Congress.
So why don't you call your Congressman, have him draw up some articles of impeachment against President Trump—pursuant to his action in Syria—and see how that works out for you?
After that, maybe you can set your crack pipe down, take a look at the entire totality of US history under the Constitution—from President George Washington to the present day—and get it through your thick skull that the President of the United States has always had this power.
And, as I mentioned, the solution for abuse of his power is very simple and straightforward: impeachment.
So, once again, good luck with all that, but, if you don't mind, the rest of us will concern ourselves with objective reality, as opposed to irrelevant, paranoid, delusional NeverTrump whimsy...
“Only Congress has the power to declare war.”
And they did so, soon after 9/11. Can you tell me when the war on terror ended, and that declaration became null?
Trump remains authorized under that declaration to this day.
There was no war, it was enforcement of treaty re WMD US Congress already approved such actions. So its constitutional.
You will never remove Trump by impeachment, hes not quitting either. So stop wasting our time with this anti-Trump BS.
Be sure and read the legislation that congress has passed to fight the war on terror...those are declarations
Or are looking to have Trump impeached? If so you belong over at DU
Every President has to have the flexible to take a military action immediately.
Get the hell over it. Trump just stated in an interview on Fox Business we weren't going to war in Syria. Unwad your panties.
“Only Congress has the power to declare war.”
Sure, that’s what Article I Section 8 of the Constitution says. But, that’s an almost illegible, dusty, old parchment that was written by a bunch of dead white men about a hundred years ago. All that old stuff is as obsolete as a slide rule or a buggy whip.
Apparently lots of self-identifying conservatives now agree with liberals that US has a Living Constitution.