To: Durus
Grenada wasn’t the same situation or similar military actionAre you saying that the War Powers Act applies to Libya, but not to Grenada?
45 posted on
03/23/2011 12:00:02 PM PDT by
Hoodat
(Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
To: Hoodat
What I'm saying is that using the military to save Americans in direct danger from a communist uprising is very different from air strikes to support an Al-Qaeda uprising. The war powers act isn't very important to me compared to the constitutional principles of declaring war, and in these two cases one is a clear cut act of war while the other is was an defense.
51 posted on
03/23/2011 1:29:11 PM PDT by
Durus
(You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
To: Hoodat
Grenada had been warned for months. The invasion was a "rescue mission" for American students. What Americans are being rescued in Libya? None. They were evacuated.
From TIME's contemporaneous coverage:
A congressional study group concluded, after a three-day trip to Grenada, that Reagan's move had been justified. The 14 members of Congress, headed by Democrat Thomas Foley of Washington State, reported to House Speaker Tip O'Neill that most of them felt that the students had been possible targets for a Tehran-type taking of hostages.
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