[mjkidd]

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I have a feeling that if the US had overwhelming intelligence that they were about to be nuked, he would veto doing something "unconstitutional" to stop it in order to make a point.

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Certainly a president can act in self-defense to protect the country from an enemy without the consent of the Congress, and preemptive self-defense is no different from any other kind of self-defense. If the US found itself in the situation of Israel in 1967, I don't doubt that Paul would strike first without a declaration of war if that gave us an advantage militarily.