Memo To Michael Stokes Paulsen:
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There Was No "Declared War" you Fool!
Memo To Michael Stokes Paulsen:
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There Was No "Declared War" you Fool!
ROTLFMAO! Haw haw haw! If only publishing absolute horsesh!t actually made it true!
Aside from the fact that the President is Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, there's this little piece of legislation that the Congress passed, called the War Powers Act. You should read up on it sometime.
Beyond that, the President can always initiate action based on his own judgement, and if Congress doesn't like that, then there's this little provision of the Constitution called impeachment, which can readily be employed against any President who wages war against the will of the People or the Congress.
Good luck with that one.
The last time the United States formally declared war was in 1941. That's over 75 years ago.
So I guess virtually every President who has taken military action since then is guilty of the same thing that President Trump is guilty of... wait for it... nothing!
Are NeverTrump b----es really this f-----g stupid? Or desperate?
NATIONAL REVIEW SUCKS
great article
He also was one of the "Originalists against Trump", who said that Trump wouldn't appoint good Supreme Court justices.
Someone should stuff his soiled little girl panties down his denutted, senile throat.
NR strikes again. The reality is that we have been bombing Syria almost daily since 2015. We have 1,000 US military personnel inside Syria. Assad says this is a violation of Syria’s sovereignty. He’s right, but what’s the big deal about a one-off bombing of a Syrian air base.
meh
You seem to have made a great point and a big impression with this post! LOL
Of course the article is total Bull Sheet. No responsible essay on this issue would discuss it without the specifics of the history of the War Powers Act — where it has been used and abused. He is tilting at straw men.
This is like the guy that finds every opportunity to talk about his pet snit— our Congress has been emasculated for 90 years, and he is hand wringing to make his points.
National Review used to be the home of good cirtiical thinking— this is childish.
Did the Bent One go to congress before taking out an aspirin factory?
“National Security Council officials just held a background briefing with reporters on the declassified intel assessment of last week’s chemical attack on Khan Shaykhun, Syria. Full story coming soon, but a few takeaways:
Sarin confirmed as the nerve agent used via testing on victims as well as symptoms. Secondary responders also suffered exposure symptoms.
Su-22s from Shayrat airfield dropped the sarin on Khan Shaykhun; conventional weapons were dropped about six hours later on hospital treating sarin victims - “no comment” from officials on if Russia did latter.
No ISIS or other terrorists in area have sarin (just mustard gas) - attack was “not a terrorist holding of sarin or a terrorist use of sarin”
WH official on if Russia, present at airfield, knew of sarin attack: “We don’t have information on that per se... still looking into that.” Adding: “We do think that it is a question worth asking” Russians how they were with Syrian forces at airfield “and did not have knowledge” of the attack in planning/prep stages.
“Leakage inconsistent” with Russians saying sarin came from opposition stocks on ground - “we don’t see a building with that chemical residue”
On Syria hoax conspiracy theories: Body of evidence “too massive” for anyone to fabricate. Official added that videos released of attack did correspond with that date, time, location. “
[[By ordering last week’s Tomahawk strike on a Syrian airbase, the president usurped Congress’s exclusive power to declare war.]]
War was declared? Since when does a WARNING turn into a ‘declaration of war?
Rofl. Where were they when Obama did similar things? And if that is true, then he was the most warring president we have ever had.
Just off the top of my head, he bombed: Afghan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Syria
We had boots on the ground in Pakistan, without consent, that carried out an execution and retrieval of a body. We sent unauthorized helicopters into their airspace.
Go ahead, then. Make it.