| Chrkeller said: People keep saying this, but it isn't exactly right. The president can deploy troops without congressional approval, it had been like that for years. It is something like the president can have 60 or 90 days for a conflict via the military, and no congress does not need to approve. Example, Obama didnt tell congress he found Bin Laden. Trump is a giant PoS, but we should be accurate, the president can and has deployed troops without congress for a long *** time. Edit See Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq and there is a 4th i can't remember. |
Obama targeted Bin Laden under the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which was passed by Congress to grant the President the authority to use military force against the people and groups responsible for 9/11.
But either way, there is something fundamentally different about attacking a terrorist cell and attacking a head of state. While it may not be altogether unprecendented given this country's history of fuckery, it is still very much a power grab which goes beyond the bounds of traditional Executive Power.
