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Well it seems you are basing your opinion on emotion rather than logic when you make a claim that you fail to back up with facts. FDR was the most notorious example of an "imperial presidency" with his alphabet schemes, 4 terms, and incarceration of innocent citizens based on the slant of their eyes but the emotional left chooses to forget it. Truman sent Troops to Korea on an executive order and 38,000 to 55,000 were killed in three years. What did Bush do that would place him in the same class of FDR and Truman?
To whitehall: Truman was correct in stopping communism in Korea. He was wrong in doing it through the UN. How he did it is much more complex than a simple executive order:
American Journal of International Law
January, 1995
*21 THE KOREAN WAR: ON WHAT LEGAL BASIS DID TRUMAN ACT?
Louis Fisher [FNa1]
89 AMJIL 21
Should you read the above keep this in mind:
International law is not law but politics, ... there is no such law, and the pretense that it exists is a harmful fantasy. Robert Bork in his book Coercing Virtue