That's what I want to know.
I'm sure we'll hear from code stink soon. /s
Posted on 03/20/2011 8:20:01 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
BTTT !
That's what I want to know.
I'm sure we'll hear from code stink soon. /s
Someone should make an entire PARODY website devoted to Obama with photoshop pics and fake stories based on the same logic of “Bush’s wars”.
FR is going to look like that for a few days... ;0)
bttt
With all the emphasis on this being an international coalition and “we're not leading this”, who is?
And is our military taking orders from them?
Obama is the War President of an Illegal War!
(Seems fair. It's what the liberals said of Bush.)
“Since when does the UN authorize the US to go to war?”
Thanks for posting. I’ve been yelling, and pounding my fist into my ‘puter table wondering that myself. This is IMO another assault on American sovereignty. Another Leftist sleight of hand move to set Leftist precedence shifting more undeniable authority to the United Nations.
It’s another dirty Leftist trick of major consequence, and it had better be addressed by other than this damned RINO McPain I’m reading about speaking out in support of that asshat Obama.
"War without victory, intervention that produces dependency, Americans shouldering the burdens but obscured in a fog of UN acronyms, a maze of rules of engagement and process that squeezes every last bit of spirit and motivation out of warriors, it may not be a strategy, but it sure as hell explains the motivation."
Being fluent in Obonics, I can translate this:
We will send thousands of troops in as peacekeepers under U.N. command.
The United States, under weak and distracted leadership, allows it once. Then successive events occur and the US allows it again and again and it becomes custom. And, finally, under continuing weak and irresolute leadership, it becomes law. In the end there is no more United States and the United Nations is left in charge. And that, my friends, is the path to oblivion that we are on.
Of course he does. There's no vital American interest nor is there any clear and present danger to the US so he's on it like ugly on an ape.
And if you think those Marines are floating around in the Med for their health, well... This is going to be Somalia Part II. Never mind that pesky little Constitution thingy, he can do whatever he wants apparently.
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Since Gulf War1 when GHWB sent the troops. However I think twas also done for the Korean War. I am not in favor of such goings on but that is the way it is. Lord knows Reagan would have made a decision long ago and the world be damned. This having to beg others to lead to get something done is not leadership. Obama’s lack of leadership will be a template for 2012.
Where are the ‘constitution’ people when they are needed? Presidents from both parties have been using work-arounds to avoid formal declarations of war. The last were against WW II enemies in Germany and Japan. Note further that was the last war we won. A formal declaration of war unites the nation in the war effort, something that has been lacking ever since WW II.
FLASHBACK
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5138389.html
CAMPAIGN 2008 - Some Democrats rap depth of Obama’s anti - war stance - Critics contend position revised during campaign
Houston Chronicle (TX) - Sunday, September 16, 2007
Author: PERRY BACON JR., Washington Post
For anti - war Illinois Democrats, the speech that made them fall in love with Barack Obama was not the one he gave in Boston in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention, but one two years earlier at a hastily organized rally in Chicago on the eve of the congressional vote to authorize the Iraq war.
“I don’t oppose all wars,” Obama , then a state senator, said on Oct. 2, 2002. “ ... What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.”
Last week, Obama quoted his own words in a speech on Iraq that chastised those who “took the president at his word instead of reading the intelligence for themselves.”
(snip)
Does anyone know of ANY congressional involvement in this adventure at all?
Congress is MIA as usual.
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