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A Faster Ticking Clock

Congress 1973 passed the War of Powers (50 U.S.C.S § 1541-1548)-“ we think it beyond question that the President has the plenary constitutional power to take such military actions as he deems necessary and appropriate to respond to the terrorist attacks upon the United States on September 11, 2001. Force can be used both to retaliate for those attacks, and to prevent and deter future assaults on the Nation. Military actions need not be limited to those individuals, groups, or states that participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon: the Constitution vests the President with the power to strike terrorist groups or organizations that cannot be demonstrably linked to the September 11 incidents, but that, nonetheless, pose a similar threat to the security of the United States and the lives of its people, whether at home or overseas. In both the War Powers Resolution and the Joint Resolution, Congress has recognized the President's authority to use force in circumstances such as those created by the September 11 incidents. Neither statute, however, can place any limits on the President's determinations as to any terrorist threat, the amount of military force to be used in response, or the method, timing, and nature of the response. These decisions, under our Constitution, are for the President alone to make.
Our President, leader, Commander in Chief, is the person that is designated to make these decisions, directions, plans, and enforce an alliance when certain boundaries have been crossed, in an instant everything that we have and know to be true, CHANGES. Since, the era of radical leaders, activist, terrorist, and insane people with weapons of mass destruction and uncountable followers we have cringed at the thought of an attack that could wipe out an entire state in seconds. The idea is that with the US

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