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Why are we bombing innocent civilian apartments?

And how are we bombing at all without Congress declaring war?

And why are we attacking people that are specifically threats to the Saudis and not USA?

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Because we can! :punch: :us: :fire:

Is it common to keep rockets and terrorist commanders in civilian appartments in your country?

Congress probably allowed the bombings in some overly large bill that gave expansive power to the administration to interpret threats to the US as it sees fit. The war equivalent of the Chevron ruling.

Presidents still have insanely-extensive authority granted by the AUMF from the original batch of "Global War on Terror" (barf) bills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit...

Remember when a bunch of people were complaining that tons of that legislation was dangerous crap that handed way too much power to the executive? Yeah, they were 100% right.

POTUS is the Commander in Chief and has discretionary authority to authorize missions like this. Congressional approval is only necessary to finance or not situations POTUS decides to get into. Congress obviously is the only way to formally declare war. These are low grade skirmishes or special operations or any other term to allow not needing congressional approval

Have you just been blissfully unaware of American foreign policy since...

(checks notes)

... the end of World War 2?

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