Analysis: Presidents, Congress And War

You can't request more than 20 challenges without solving them. Your previous challenges were flushed.
Courtesy NPR: Politics & Society  Tue, 12/01/2009 - 19:35

Congress may have the sole constitutional authority to declare wars and the finance them, but in America it is the president that carries them out.

Among the challenges facing President Obama is convincing his own party that the cause in Afghanistan is right.

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