Speaking of hope and change
10 lawmakers suing the president claiming that the continued military action in Libya wasn’t authorized by congress.
And the Obama administration argues that lobbing missiles into a country and spending $716M aren’t actually, you know, hostilities.
Say what you want about Bush but his wars were authorized.
June 16th, 2011 at 10:07 am
Yeah, I guess if someone were lobbing missiles into the US it would depend who they were whether it was an “act of war” or even “hostility”.
June 16th, 2011 at 10:25 am
Bush’s wars were not authorized either. COngress has not declared war on Afghanistan or IRaq. Hence they are illegal. The war powers act is BS because congress can pass a law changing the constitution. The have to amend it.
June 16th, 2011 at 10:53 am
Bush’s wars were authorized by the UN and by Congress, but somehow illicit, illegal, immoral, unwinnable, and justified by lies. But hey, he was a Republican President, not a Democrat.
I can see how that is all the difference necessary for President Obama to avoid problems with his Libyan kinetics.
June 16th, 2011 at 10:58 am
Elect a Cook County Politician get Cook County attitude towards law.
And people are surprise why?
June 16th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Chirol,
Well-said!
Our government, lead by CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) puppet/agents (Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama), wage undeclared, unconstitutional wars while they ALLOW the invasion of our country , in direct violation of Article IV, Section 4 that “the United States SHALL…protect the State against invasion…” this is giving “aid and comfort to the enemy” that wants to come and stay and according to the wording in Article III, Section 3, this is “treason”.
June 16th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
But Obama has ended war as we know it. Kill, bomb, maim all the president wants but as long a there are no boots on the ground or pilots in the planes, no war.
Droid wars are the future
June 17th, 2011 at 4:51 am
“Bush’s wars were not authorized either. COngress has not declared war on Afghanistan or IRaq. Hence they are illegal. The war powers act is BS because congress can pass a law changing the constitution. The have to amend it.”
Wow, there’s a lot of dumbass in your post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Terrorists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution
June 17th, 2011 at 12:24 pm
For that matter, Lt. O’Bannon led some of Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children to the Shores of Tripoli on an authorization of use of military force…