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When we look at how, constitutionally, only Congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. Not NATO or the UN, but Congress has to authorize these endless wars, and it isn't.

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Edward Snowden
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 21
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Elizabeth City
North Carolina
Edward Joseph Snowden
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