And that is true, routinely, of a war-making administration. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Solomon: The March of Folly, Continued] Reference
He was very concerned about the potential for war-making capacity. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2004] Reference
If we sidestep all the human sacrificing and war-making, they were. From Wordnik.com. [Tina Dupuy: Whitewashing and Cherry Picking Religion] Reference
They can't do very much in terms of the president's war-making power. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2006] Reference
It was engaging in aggressive war-making against a sovereign country. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
To be awed -- or disgusted -- by a peek at the next 50 years of war-making. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Turse: Eco-Explosives, a Bleeding BEAR, and the Armani-Clad Super Soldier] Reference
Senate is restrained and unduly deferential to presidential war-making power. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Solomon: From the Grave, a Senator Exposes Bloody Hands on Capitol Hill] Reference
Organized labor here in San Antonio is very conservative on war-making issues. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Maury Maverick, October 27, 1975. Interview A-0323. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The framers left the war-making decision to the "deliberative process in Congress.". From Wordnik.com. [John W. Whitehead: Impeach Bush if He Attacks Iran] Reference
All it took was one person to lie to the world about the war-making ability of another nation. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Gelbart: Can One Person Make a Difference?] Reference
This kind of war-making capability is expensive, but India has started to put real money behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Zia Mian: A Path for Peace in South Asia] Reference
Nixon/Ford/Kissinger war-making killed most of the 1,541,398 human beings whom the Pentagon and U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Branfman: When "Staying the Course" Means Defeat: 2. Indochina] Reference
House Resolution that produced the Iraq war by conferring Congress 'war-making power on the president. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Jarecki: Lessons of the Fall: Ike's In, Reagan's Out] Reference
Whilst this principle shall guide my public conduct, I consider it clear that under the war-making power. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The Pentagon defines itself as in the war-making business -- a mindset that will guarantee obsolescence. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Slater: If the Pentagon Were 'Run Like a Business' it Might Avoid Obsolescence] Reference
What we lack is the political will to do it right -- no more halfhearted war-making, as in the air campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Invading Kosovo: A Battle Plan] Reference
If the United States is truly to be a global leader, we are setting a poor example through our war-making policies. From Wordnik.com. [Randall Amster: 2010: A Peace Odyssey?] Reference
On the other hand and with the use of modern war-making equipment, some of these countries have acquired wealth and power. From Wordnik.com. [Energy and Society~ Chapter 16~ Energy in a Contracting System] Reference
Historically, the most vocal support for U.S. war-making has come from those who identify themselves as devout Christians. From Wordnik.com. [Cynthia Boaz: What if the Right was Right? A Reflection on the "Christian States of America."] Reference
Since 9/11, the courts have increasingly encroached on the legitimate war-making powers of both the president and Congress. From Wordnik.com. [Awlaki vs. Predator] Reference
Most wars you want to destroy infrastructure and war-making capability, and you want to kill as many of the enemy as possible. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2003] Reference
The war-making tendency was almost non-existent, as they still followed the tenets of the Confucian ideal of pacifist culture. From Wordnik.com. [Farewell Address to Congress] Reference
But the really big guns, of course, are being wielded from Washington, where administrative war-making thrives on abstraction. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Solomon: Men with Guns, in Kabul and Washington] Reference
The effort was launched in 1950, as longtime enemies France and Germany agreed to pool their war-making industries, coal and steel. From Wordnik.com. [A Fitful Dream: European Unity Shaken By New Woes] Reference
If Congress says: no money to fight an Iraq War, this is not micro-managing the war, this is an affirmative statement: no war-making. From Wordnik.com. [After The Veto -- What's Next For Dems On Iraq?] Reference
And the peace movement also achieved its goals of ending the draft and restraining further U.S. war-making for decades following the war. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Branfman: ON JOHN MCCAIN AND TOM BROKAW'S SHAMEFUL VERSIONS OF THE VIETNAM WAR] Reference
I have never doubted the constitutional competency of Congress to provide for its construction, but this exclusively under the war-making power. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
More specifically, as shown in the quotes above, she wanted to establish a day on which mothers across the world unequivocally denounced war-making. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Greenwald: This Mother's Day, Tear Up Those Hallmark Cards] Reference
We need to all live in the real world, and in the real world the Democratic majority is not big enough to seriously clip Bush's war-making powers in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Approval Rating Of Dem-Controlled Congress Sinks To 28%] Reference
So, if you could eliminate Saddam and his war-making capacity, that was the end of the mission, because the Iraqis were going to stand up and do everything else. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2007] Reference
Congress has the war-making power, but war once brought into being (if we may be allowed the expression), the manner in which it shall be conducted rests with the executive. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It was impossible for me to proceed further than this on my own authority without usurping the war-making power, which under the Constitution belongs exclusively to Congress. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
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