Posted on 08/02/2016 9:53:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook announced on Monday that President Obama had authorized new air strikes to help rid Libya of Islamic State terrorists who have spread into that country.
“Under what legal authority are these strikes being conducted?” a reporter asked Cook at Monday’s Pentagon briefing.
“The 2001 authorization for the use of military force, similar to our previous airstrikes in Libya,” Cook responded. …
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Well past time for Congress to revoke AUMF. It was never meant to be a permanent transfer of war powers authority.
ah, one of the legal justifications used by Bush
But wait
Haven’t the democrats claimed for a decade+ that Bush acted illegally?
Huffington Post and DU must be so confused ....
I’m thinking Wikileaks exposed the Libyan responsible for Hillary’s gambit. They are trying to find him and kill him before he speaks.
Exactly.
Congress doesn’t have the Constitutional power to “transfer” any powers to any other branch of government, thus eliminating separation of powers. Decades of flouting the Constitution will lead to anarchy, and we’re near the tipping point.
Seems a bit reminiscent of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964.
The 1973 War Powers Resolution is still in effect, and dictates that the president consult with congress if engaging the military.
Has that been done?
0bama’s going to make some halfassed attempt to clean up his mess now?
That’s kind of like spilling a carton of milk on the kitchen floor and waiting three months to do anything about it. And to keep the metaphor accurate he threw it on the floor on purpose to begin with.
That Hillary voted for...
I haven’t been watching this mess but my bet is the government (and the Europeans who own the oilfields they took over after we eliminated Qadaffi) were close to asking the Russians for help to contain ISIS
Thus Obama bravely sent in someone elses kids to preempt them
with some half-vast bombings
That’s an interesting thought.
FWIW the Chinese were there developing oil fields before NATObama turned Libya into a gigantic terrorist training camp. I don’t know if they’ve tried to return or not.
The Chinese have tens of thousands of people working the oilfields in Libya and Iraq
When Hillary was enticing and then taking down Qadaffi they had an air evac of their nationals
Bush’s fault.
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