[Sirius Lee]

Without a formal declaration of war by congress, all the amendments in the world have exactly zero impact on the Commander In Chief’s command over the military.

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"Without a formal declaration of war by congress, all the amendments in the world have exactly zero impact on the Commander In Chief’s command over the military."

That's exactly what I was thinking.....

[patriotfury]

Agreed.

If this vote and legislation is what it is touted, this becomes another significant Constitutional “division of powers” crises.

While Congress can sign off on budgets, and has certain budgetary related oversight, short of a congressional “Declaration of War”, it cannot lawfully direct the DoD to contradict an Chief Commanding Officers executive authority, the authority of which is Constitutionally established.

Furthermore, is Congress now going to micro-manage the DoD and our service members across the globe? This would be certain suicide for our armed forces around the world.

Just think, now we can have a socialist Congress, which is full of the likes of “Occasional Cortex” and other anti-American communist illiterates, giving orders to our DoD to disobey an elected Commander in Chief!

Nice!

Actually, this would be formally, national suicide!