[1010RD]

The War Powers Act is a distraction. It exists simply to “clarify” the role of Congress in declaring war.

The Constitution makes clear only Congress can declare war. The President makes war, but only after Congress declares it. The purpose being to avoid all these petty foreign entanglements that sapped and broke the British, French and other foreign “super” powers throughout history.

If Congress doesn’t put its foot down here we’re done.

[af_vet_rr]

If Congress doesn’t put its foot down here we’re done.

Congress should have put it's foot down long before now, even before 2002/2003 and Iraq, and we should get away from this nation-building/regime-change nonsense.

It's one thing when you have Afghanistan harboring the people who attacked us in 2001, but Bush set the stage for Nobama when he laid out freeing the Iraqi people as one of the three main reasons to invade Iraq, and going back to Clinton, the elder Bush, and Reagan before him, we've now got three decades where the US has constantly been involved in serious regime change/nation building through the use of our military and without a declaration of war.

We basically have two generations of people who are used to Presidents getting us into regime change/nation building and think it's normal, and we've got to stop that.

If we are going to go to war, then it should be serious enough to declare war.

[The Theophilus]

If Congress doesn’t put its foot down here we’re done.

That statement has been made in so many contexts recently that it has become necessary to make a rubber stamp to spare the writing cramps.