To: Colonel Kangaroo
Thomas Jefferson sent ships to fight the Barbary pirates without a declaration of war.
2 posted on
04/12/2018 7:40:32 PM PDT by
marktwain
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To: marktwain
Congress gave Jefferson the authority to attack the Barbary states if they declared war first which Tripoli did. It wasn't an open-ended authorization to attack nations which had not attacked us nor declared war against us.
To: marktwain
11 posted on
04/12/2018 8:04:20 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
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