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Bluetus

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3. Saw this in spades with Bush and Chaney

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 1, 2025, 09:20 AM

23 hrs ago

But the erosion of this constitutional responsibility may have iits roots earlier in Kosovo and certainly Vietnam.

Congress does not not operate anything like what the founders had hoped for.

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