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JDPriestly

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2. With regard to military secrecy, that is true.

Reply to JayhawkSD (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 1, 2012, 01:26 AM

Feb 2012

The president is the commander in chief. What he says pretty much goes. Congress has some authority over the armed forces, and the president can't do anything he wants in every areay, but the president, regardless of his party, is the commander in chief. As we saw with GW Bush, that is not always a good thing.

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