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...critics, noting that it had no historical precedent and stressing the difficulty of mustering enough votes to bypass a Presidential veto. But Feldman, who was appointed in 2003 by the Bush administration to help draft the Iraqi constitution, emphasized Presidential primacy, saying that precedent was “not determinative?? in the context of modern warfare, citing differences in scope, field communication, and feedback mechanisms that have fundamentally transformed the nature of battlefield command—certainly since the penning of the Constitution. More specifically, on the issue of President Bush’s order for a surge...
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