FLOUT it, baby, FLOUT it!
Posted on 07/02/2011 9:59:58 AM PDT by darkwing104
When asked about his personal war against Libya and criticism about ignoring congress in a blatant disregard of the War Powers Act the President brushed both aside as just “noise”. Obama has no intention to seek congressional approval as required by law. The President wants Americans to ignore the fact that the incursion into Libya was supposed to be a US Lead effort to establish a UN mandated “No Fly Zone” and no more.
He wants us to overlook the fact that this “kinetic military exercise” which started as a NATO air operations is now an overt effort to assassinate Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi.
Congress strikes back
In an effort to justify the president’s contempt for the law, legal adviser to the State Department Harold Koh stated “From the outset, we noted that the situation in Libya does not constitute a war”. Outraged, Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) shot back “When you have an operation that goes on for months, costs billions of dollars, where the United States is providing two-thirds of the troops, even under the NATO fig leaf, where they’re dropping bombs that are killing people, where you’re paying your troops offshore combat pay and there are areas of prospective escalation — something I’ve been trying to get a clear answer from with this administration for several weeks now, and that is the possibility of a ground presence in some form or another, once the Qaddafi regime expires — I would say that’s hostilities.”
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) accused the White House of “sticking a stick in the eye of Congress” and saying it had done “a great disservice to our country.””
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Good point. I never thought of that before...But I daresay I’ll think of that every time I see ‘pre planned’ from here on.
There you go, flouting your intelligence.
Well if I’ve got it, I’ll flaunt it! And flout convention at the same time! :-)
FLOUT it, baby, FLOUT it!
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