War
War
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"Speaker Johnson confirmed: Israel was determined to act with or without US support. America chose to join. The constitutional authority for launching a war reduced to: our ally was going to do it anyway. The War Powers Clause of the US Constitution requires congressional authorisation. The Speaker of the House just explained that the actual decision-making process bypassed it entirely because of what Israel was planning to do."