"The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
So said constitutional scholar and Senator Barack Obama in December 2007 – the same man who, this weekend, ordered U.S. air and missile strikes on Libya without any authorization from Congress.
Obama did win the support of Gabon in the Security Council, but failed with Germany. With a phone call to acquitted rapist Jacob Zuma, he got South Africa to sign on, but not Brazil, Russia, India or China. All four abstained.
This is not the world's war. This is Obama's war.
The U.S. Navy fired almost all the cruise missiles that hit Libya as the U.S. Air Force attacked with B-2 bombers, F-15s and F-16s.
"To be clear, this is a U.S.-led operation," said Vice Adm. William Gortney.
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies," said Winston Churchill. Obama is a quick study.
In his Friday ultimatum, he said, "We are not going to use force to go beyond a well-defined goal – specifically, the protection of civilians in Libya."
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2 comments:
I don't like the fact that we are going in there at all, as we are already involved in two unsustainable wars in the Middle East. But, civilians were and are being slaughtered for the crime of being civilians. So, yeah, we had to do something, morally speaking.
As far as "Congressional Approval" goes... Sorry, guys, we signed into the United Nations treaty, and as such are obligated to act when voted on by the security council. As this is a UN action, not an act of war by the United States itself, no war-time action is required by Constitutional standards, since Congress already approved it by entering into the treaty in the first place.
@8:49 - WRONG
Only Congress has the power to declare war.
If the UN Security Council authorized military action against the US, would we have to tell our military to stand down?
Impeach Obama for his illegal war started by an illegal president.
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