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Congress has the power to declare war and the president, as commander-in-chief, has the power to carry it out.”

And Congress has explicitly refused to declare war, or even authorize "use of force" ... so Zero's war against Libya is unconstitutional.

79 posted on 06/24/2011 5:22:24 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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ironically - obama is the first president to accept the constitutionality of the war powers act

and the first NOT to comply with it

81 posted on 06/24/2011 5:24:27 PM PDT by sloop (don't touch my junk)
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