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Originally Posted by TheDoc
This isn't complex stuff... He doesn't need congressional approval for Libya, it's not a violation of the war powers act, and it's not grounds for impeachment, at all.
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Basically no different than a loophole like GE uses to not pay any tax.
I think we all know that the founding fathers did not want a president to be able to do this kind of stuff. We should never have been able to put troops in Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Iraq, or Afghanistan. And we should never have been able to bomb any of the dozen or so countries we've done it to over the last 30 years or so...WITHOUT Congress declaring war.
I guess it kinda took off in the modern era with The Korean "War"
It's the reason our govt. was set up that way. To STOP us from becoming what we are today...
Yeah, I agree that legally the President is able to get away with this. Just like cops can now legally search you and the TSA can frisk you.
Is it what the constitution says? No. Is it what The United States Of America is supposed to be doing? No.
And every time the President starts a "non-war" with another country we go further and further down the slippery slope.