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satya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-12-06 02:25 PM
Response to Reply #71
83. To a "strict constructionist", the prez is not the commander of the Air
Force? So he may only wage a ground war? What about the Marines?

It may sound facetious, but I'm serious. (I may be thinking of "originalist" -- whichever group it is that thinks the Constitution is fixed in time and that we should roll back to that point).
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