01/14/2009
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"when you have an operation that goes on for months, costs billions of dollars, where the United States is providing two-thirds of the troops even under the NATO fig leaf."
"I am not going to sit here and let everybody throw the dart at the White House saying the President violated this and that when he was the first President to ever say I accept the constitutionality of..."
"This was a fundamental failure of leadership that placed expedience above constitutional responsibility."
"But it is just wrong to suggest that somehow the President went outside the constitutional process here when, in fact, Congress--us--have done nothing within those 60 days to either authorize it or de..."