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Monday, October 6, 2014

Presidents and the War Power

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/presidents-and-the-war-po_b_5938506.html

Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

Presidents and the War Power

Posted: 10/06/2014
President Barack Obama's claim that he doesn't need congressional authorization for his current war in Iraq and Syria is troubling. The country's founders would pass out upon hearing his claim that the post-9/11 congressional approval of force in 2001 against the perpetrators of those attacks and their abettors and the congressional resolution approving George W. Bush's invasion of Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 2003 give him the current authority for a very different war against very different people. However, Obama is not the first president to believe that he has the rather imperial authority for war by executive fiat.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/presidents-and-the-war-po_b_5938506.html

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