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James48

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Reply to FirstLight (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:36 AM

Oct 2019

He is the Commander in Chief. Congress has nothing to do with where troops are deployed, except to pass a law withholding funds if they are sent somewhere Congress doesn’t want.

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