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Originally Posted by TheDoc
If it's a U.N. mission and meets the U.N. guidelines, then the President can do exactly what he did. It's pre-approved by Congress and the funding for it too, and Obama did give notice, which is all he has to do, by law.
A Republican president has done the same thing, many of them.
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First of all, what the UN says has ABSOLUTELY no bearing on our constitution, and god forbid it ever does. There is no provision there that says that if other countries join in, the president can act without congressional approval. Please show me the cite, if you disagree.
Secondly, by law, there must be shown a clear and present danger to the US, and the time in which he has to act, even with that, is limited, I believe, to 90 days.
Thirdly, I don't approve of any president doing it Rep, or Dem, and this 7 months of bombing has REALLY pushed the precedent out to a very wide envelope. The point of my post is that we are granting the executive office WAY too much power, and it's going to bite us in the ass, very very soon.
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