Our politicians have their favorite constituents. Those constituents have their favorite countries. There's also the oil market and freight fuel for imports.
Has Congress declared war on Libya? By what authority are war actions authorized?
What? No shrill cries from the peacenik LibDems on Capitol Hill? No lamentations from the hippies? Where’s the love?
According to Hitlery he doesn’t need Congress.
But ofcourse her hubby Bubba violated it routinely.
The War Powers Resolution (WPR) was an act passed by Congress in 1973, over President Richard Nixon’s veto, to “insure that the collective judgment of both the Congress and the President will apply to the introduction of United States armed forces into hostilities.” The War Powers Resolution restricted Presidential war making to situations in which Congress had declared war or had given the President specific permission to use the armed forces in hostilities or in which the nation, its territories, possessions, or armed forces had been attacked.
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