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Originally Posted by sperbonzo [T]hirdly, 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.

We, i.e.; the Congress, allowed the last president to go to war "with the axis of evil (did that also include Darth Vader?)" more specifically -- Iraq. Apart from the accumulation 100's of billions of dollars in public debt -- what was accomplished?

It made the world safe for democracy? Heard that bullshit from Johnson and Nixon in my youth ...