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Showing Original Post only (View all)Unconstitutional warmaking to punish violating laws of war is like lynching for justice. [View all]
.... and the constitutional scholar/Senator I worked my ass of for to elect twice, had it right :
The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.
---Senator Barack Obama, 12-20-2007
(Inspirational credits to William Pitt)
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Unconstitutional warmaking to punish violating laws of war is like lynching for justice. [View all]
Faryn Balyncd
Aug 2013
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