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No surprize here but I am confused again.....
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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
What's interesting is that in the four years subsequent, Congress has not used its constitutional power to declare war.
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I would surmise that if the President had asked Congress to declare war on Afghanistan back in the fall of 2001, Congress would have done so in about three seconds. What the President asked for -- and you can read a little about the negotiations in Tom Daschle's op-ed in today's WaPo -- was much, much broader. Clearly, he wanted the authority to do other things, and didn't want to be limited by a declaration of war, which by its nature limits the hostilities to certain nation-states.
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