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2016 Postmortem

Orsino

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2. The AUMF should never have been conceived, nor signed...

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Dec 13, 2016, 11:26 AM

Dec 2016

...and should have been revisited fifteen years ago.

Hundreds of thousands are dead, without a President Trump--and not all occurred during the Bush presidency.

Our alleged representatives who signed on to it should always be viewed with extra suspicion.

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The War Powers Act should be re-visited. [View all] kentuck Dec 2016 OP

Excellent post Shemp Howard Dec 2016 #1

The AUMF should never have been conceived, nor signed... Orsino Dec 2016 #2

I thought that sweetapogee Dec 2016 #3