GWB needed something bigger AND a specific vote in Congress.
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but that vote from Congress never went away, the Authorization for Military Force is still in effect, explicitly allowing the President to deploy the military against foreign targets without a Declaration of War from Congress, so long as he says "terrorism"
sep 5, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
huh, they never dreamed that this would mean someone is feigning fright over a penny ante thing.
sep 5, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
it's really too bad that Obama was having so much fun with his AUMF drone strikes that he forgot to get around to repealing the AUMF...
sep 5, 2025, 9:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Obama kept the legacy definition of terrorist. We have a loon president now with a cabal.
sep 5, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
AND, it would have needed Congress to undeclare the declaration, no?
sep 5, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view