But they're ignoring the fact that if they had done their job in declaring and overseeing the war, the U.S. probably wouldn't be in this situation today.
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According to an Airwars investigation, as many as 48,000 civilians have died over the last 20 years as a direct result of U.S. bombs.
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Sept. 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris formally established “a general peace.” Signed by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay - Article I affirmed 13 “free sovereign and Independent States,” and remains in force today. Highlighting their views on the treaty - in their own words - from their letters in the weeks that followed.
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From day one, they’ve attacked your liberty in big ways - and they’re not even close to being done yet.
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That's the definition of insanity - trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
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This moral monstrosity was executed in the name of retaliation, deterrence and liberation, but in reality, it was American hubris.
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James Madison wrote about the "degeneracy of morals and manners" that happens when a country engages in war.
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Thomas Paine, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison - in their own words - on the evils of war. Not on the structure of war powers under the Constitution, but as a deeper, philosophical foundation.
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James Madison warned that "of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded." Why? Because it sows the seeds for other threats to liberty.
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A national-security state needs official enemies to justify its existence, power, influence, and ever-increasing budgets. That’s how the United States got the Cold War after winning World War II. A new official enemy was needed to justify the conversion of the federal government to a national-security state. That official enemy became “godless communism,” the Soviet Union (i.e., Russia), Red China, North Korea, North Vietnam, and the rest of the communist world.
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