Next stop Iran

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The Corporotacracy sure seems to want war with Iran--more contracts, more rebuilding money, more exlpoitation. We've been on this military footing for decades, its high past time we removed all the occupational bases in foreign countries and quit meddling with the world like it was there to serve us.

LOL continue on with such thoughts, eventually you might even stumble across one that is correct.

and by the way, the Constitution states that the army is for the defense of the republic and nothing else. We all know about the 'entangling alliances' too. We've been interfering for decades in things that don't concern us, which is the primary reason most of the world hates american policy.

Actually the Constitution does not state that, it is an interpatation of the wording but no such explicit statement exists that I know of.

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress

Now congress has given up or ignored several aspects of these key powers that were granted to the body by the Constitution and its subsequent ratification by the people, but the military is only to defend the United States is not a stated power.