We are in an effective state of war with al Qaeda. I agree that all wars should be declared, but until SCOTUS rules on the current practice of use of Congressional approved authorizations for the use of force, that is how we go to war. We are at war with al Qaeda.'
I love the way some pick around the edges of an argument rather than dealing with the main idea of the argument. We are about to do two or three pages on whether we are at war with al Qaeda. I won't participate in that. To all rational people, we are at war with al Qaeda.
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That is a sorry excuse saying we will have to wait and see what SCOTUS rules, it is in plain English what congress and the president is authorized to do period. For a person who always makes people cite what the THE LAW says and a person I respect for that is ok with the government bending constitutional requirements and peoples rights is sad. This is not how we go to war and the American people are to blame for allowing them to get away with it. The republicans and democratic voters stood by and allowed bush to bend our rights and allowed him and now obama to get away with two illegal wars that have killed thousand of our men and woman. Bush took a yard of rope and now Obama is taking the whole reel.
ARTICLE 1, SECTION 8
The Congress shall have Power:
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress....
ARTICLE 1, SECTION 9
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
ARTICLE II, SECTION 2
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States....
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X-qAq_HAQ0 Breaks it down into even simpler.