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To: Leaning Right

Undeclared??? Bush brought both Iraq and Afghanistan before Congress and both Houses approved the actions.....get a life tool.........


70 posted on 04/18/2013 10:46:10 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (A Strong Man Armed who guards his home, lives in peace.)
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To: Forty-Niner
Undeclared??? Bush brought both Iraq and Afghanistan before Congress and both Houses approved the actions...

The Constitution requires a declaration of war before the country enters into a war. Period. Bush did not ask for a declaration of war. He asked for an authorization to use force.

Do you not see how that was an end-around the Constitution? It in essence gave Bush the "right" to start a war whenever he felt like it. And it allowed Congress to escape its responsibility of actually declaring war.

Now, I'm not saying Bush was wrong to invade Afghanistan or Iraq. That's for another thread. But if you're going to take a country to war, declare war. Then mobilize the whole might of the country to win that war.

85 posted on 04/19/2013 6:41:16 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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