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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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      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.