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Obama Suggests U.S. Involvement In Libya Limited, Authority Not Needed

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Posted by tipper 2011-05-21 02:15|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 IOW- the War Powers Act only applies to Republicans. Why not just repeal it?

Posted by Free Radical 2011-05-21 06:45|| 2011-05-21 06:45|| Front Page Top

#2 "Badges? I doan need no steenkin' badges."

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-05-21 07:25|| 2011-05-21 07:25|| Front Page Top

#3 He's a smart politician. His base would ~~kill~~ primary him if he asked for authorization. It would be his war. But if the Republicans give it to him for free, well, he'll just have to do whatever his generals say. He got bi-partisan support after all.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-05-21 07:30|| 2011-05-21 07:30|| Front Page Top

#4 ~~Constitutional / United States Law~~ Authority Not Needed ~~Does Not Apply to Me or my Muslim Brotherhood Friends in North Africa~~

Posted by Thomoger and Tenille3718 2011-05-21 07:48|| 2011-05-21 07:48|| Front Page Top

#5 The real Constitutional war powers act is the legislative control of the purse strings. The Trunks, lacking any backbone, will just go along rather than go back to the Donk resolutions from the 70s which cut the funding for operations in Vietnam and the South Vietnamese. All they have to do is swap out names and reintroduce it loudly pointing out its basically a Donk document. Wimps that they are, they won't.

Forcing this would at least make the administration articulate exactly why the hell we're there which, I suspect, can't be sold to the public.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-05-21 08:58|| 2011-05-21 08:58|| Front Page Top

#6 So this is what a Steve Urkel presidentcy looks like? They are both from Chicago. Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2011-05-21 11:11|| 2011-05-21 11:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Please, don't call it a war. For now it's a 'Narrow U.S. Effort with intermittent kinetic pieces'. Not exactly bumper-sticker material but hey it's a work in progress.

Oh and BTW, here's a couple of overlooked nuggets from Obama's speech regarding Libya.

"The opposition has organized a legitimate and credible Interim Council."

And...

"Across the region, we intend to provide assistance to civil society, including those that may not be officially sanctioned, and who speak uncomfortable truths."

Sounds like real soon somebody might be gettin their presents.

Posted by DepotGuy 2011-05-21 11:40|| 2011-05-21 11:40|| Front Page Top

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