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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Everything the President has done has been cleared by the constitution, on the account that the President and Congress are provided powers to act in common defence of the country and the constitution. On top of that Bush, or any President, is given war time powers. The President is charged with faithfully executing all laws passed by congress, in this case the articles of War that have been ratified by our congress, articles that I would bet Padilla is in gross violation of.
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I'm not trying to be cute, and I'm really not interested in a big flame war etc - so I'm not trying to be incendiary. Potentially naive. I was under the impression that our Congress had granted Bush certain Executive privelages, but that we had not actually ratified official "Articles of War" with Iraq. I did a search for "Iraq War Articles of War" and "Operation Iraqi Freedom Articles of War" and came up blank. Are we officially "at War," or are we "at war" with Terror like we're "at war" with Drugs?
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