"The War Powers Act doesn’t allow a president to use force - TopicsExpress



          

"The War Powers Act doesn’t allow a president to use force absent authorization from Congress unless there is a “national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces” — a threshold Syria simply does not meet. If Assad’s forces shoot at our ships offshore, Obama can rain hell down upon him, but absent that “national emergency,” he has to go to Congress — as President Bush did for Afghanistan and Iraq."
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:02:58 +0000

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