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So some of this comes from Bella Abzug not liking Richard Nixon that much.

Or maybe from a South Carolina delegate who feared the Spanish fleet.

Or from a president who started a war that history now calls a war, but labeled it something else.

It was just the neighborhood constable swinging the nightstick around a bit.

Yeah. In the final hours of the battle for Grenada, the Americans were still pouring in more combat troops who arrived at the new airport one way following another.

All of these things have led to where we are with what we call presidential war powers

and around a specific piece of congressional legislation, which still drives action today,

yes, even the recent events in Venezuela,

but was all written and passed in the 1970s and not significantly legislatively changed

since that time. So we're still going to talk about it. And I'm going to talk a bit about

my 2011 podcast on the war

powers that I did back when Obama was president and he was considering action against Libya.

And these issues came up because they really haven't changed. I almost just re-ran my

episode from 2011. But I found that there's some interesting development.

The buildup coincided with the arrival of helicopter gunships. All urgently needed reinforcements

to end the fighting as quickly as possible. In the words of one American officer, they were

using whatever it takes to free the island. But even as these men came ashore,

the invasion forces were still facing intense fire from the last remaining Cuban strongholds

in the hills surrounding the airport. So, I mean, the recent news in Venezuela raises history,

you know, you do have to consider the classic example of the presidential use of war power Grenada, 1983.

We saw planes coming in, going out, we saw the battleships.

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