Obviously other attorneys from around the administration -- lawyers from around the administration were able to express their views, but it is our judgment, the President's judgment, that the action being taken by the United States in its support role for this NATO mission do not meet the threshold set by the War Powers resolution in the hostilities phrase.

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And there has been one set of crises which are quite, to use the phrase, exogenous, external to the government which have befallen us.

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From the government benches came an answering phrase in the rich bourdon of Geoffrey Cox (Con, Torridge and West Devon), who enthusiastically set about embroidering the same theme with his customary eloquence.

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