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The scheme of the War Powers Act is that a president can make war, absent authority, for sixty days. Once that sixty day limit is reached, he must begin winding down the effort as soon as possible, and must end all confrontation (even of the retreat/withdrawal under fire type) thirty days after that.

Now, the President can of course seek authorization for war in that sixty day window, in which case the Constitution is satisfied and the War Powers Act no longer applies.

The recent visit of Prime Minster Yousaf Raza Gilani to China is being viewed with great anticipation owing to the unilateral operation conducted by the US forces on Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden, and US coercive diplomacy, emphasizing old American maxim to ‘do more’ against t

I was at a town hall meeting Wednesday night with our Republicon representative for a slide show (aka dog and pony show). She had a slide showing how much of our debt was owned by other countries. I was not able to ask her directly my question during her town hall meeting but did follow up on Thursday with my question. "if our debt is so bad why do those countries keep buying it?"  Her staffers reply was silence kind of like that famous pregnant pause.