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Originally Posted by dc_dux
There was no Declaration of War, but rather two separate Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) ...one the week after 9/11 to invade Afghanistan in pursuit of al Queda and one, 13 months later, to invade Iraq, sold in large part, on misinformation, cherrypicked information and information withheld from Congress.
In any case, an AUMF authorizes a president to use the Armed Forces of the United States.....
It does not give a president the authorization to direct the NSA to wiretap citizens w/o warrant as Bush attempted to claim.
It does not give a president the authorization to direct the CIA to use "enhanced interrogation techniques" that are recognized in international treaties as torture, as Bush attempted to claim.
The CIA and NSA are NOT part of the Armed Forces of the United States.
And it does not give a president the authority to ignore the Uniform Code of Military Justice or Geneva Conventions as applied to the rights of detainees in military prisons....as Bush attempted to claim and the USSC overuled on three separate occasions.
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Doesn't that mean that stop-loss is illegal right now? Not to get this too far off track, but the Armed Forces Enlistment Contract which says: "In the event of war, my enlistment in the Armed Forces continues until six (6) months after the war ends, unless the enlistment is ended sooner by the President of the United States."
We're not at war (we've not technically been at war since WWII), therefore stop-loss is illegal, no?