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      The US hasn’t “technically” been at war since WW2. We weren’t “at war” during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War…

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        Only open war we’ve had since I can remember is the war on drugs and homelessness. Shows you were our priorities lie considering we haven’t done shit to address either.

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      HW Bush proved a president can without any repercussions no matter how illegally the war is declared. We lost that power check a long time ago.

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          He clearly violated the letter and spirit of the law with the attack on Panama. According to historians. The prevailing analysis I’ve heard is that both parties didn’t want to impeach him because the fallout from Nixon was considered too big a national problem to revisit.

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      Technically and laws don’t apply to this administration, if he were to declare war the Republicans would just predate a declaration of war and say it’s legal.