You’re going to hear and read the false, tired assertion that the War Powers Resolution (or Act) allows the president to take offensive military action without congressional approval for 60-90 days. Here’s why that’s not true:
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The War Powers Resolution does not confer any new authority on the president to take offensive military action without congressional approval (nor could it). It instead checks the president when he enters our Armed Forces into hostilities for constitutionally permissible reasons.
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You can read the War Powers Resolution here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1541 ….
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And how, exactly, did Syria attack the United States?
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Um, we weren't attacked.
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Would this apply to cyber attacks by a foreign adversary?
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From a GOP member of Congress. We may disagree on 99 percent of things, but this is in the other 1 percent. And it matters.
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You're making the war powers resolution out to be part of the constitution when it was passed in 1973.
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Are you trying to say that Syria attacked the US and therefore Trump’s missile attack was justified?
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Would a bombing of our embassy in Japan by a Syrian justify an outright attack on Syria proper?
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A 'sudden attack' ... as when the 'Pee-Pee Tape' comes out in the media.
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Oh, NM, your a republican of course you have no clue.
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Oops, that should be you're, but, again, you're a republican so you still have no clue
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And the 60 to 90 probably want because of horseback! It needs to be modernized.
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" Remember the Maine"
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