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To: giotto
One more time ~ just to help educate our audience. A declaration of war takes a mere majority. A declaration of peace requires a treaty with 2/3 Senate majority.

We also don't have a specific provision in the Constitution to allow us to OCCUPY a defeated foe until he agrees to that treaty but we do that anyway.

At the moment we are preparing to pull out of both Iraq and Afghanistan WITHOUT such a treaty being approved in the Senate.

Probably grounds for impeachment.

74 posted on 12/10/2011 7:25:37 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Why would you need a treaty to end a war that was never declared in the first place?


75 posted on 12/13/2011 10:38:10 AM PST by BatMite
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