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Bluetus

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3. Saw this in spades with Bush and Chaney

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 1, 2025, 09:20 AM

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But the erosion of this constitutional responsibility may have iits roots earlier in Kosovo and certainly Vietnam.

Congress does not not operate anything like what the founders had hoped for.

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