Posted on 03/21/2011 3:27:17 PM PDT by Nachum
Letter from the President regarding the commencement of operations in Libya (as provided by the White House)-March 21, 2011-Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:) At approximately 3:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, on March 19, 2011, at my direction, U.S. military forces commenced operations to assist an international effort authorized by the United Nations (U.N.) Security Council and undertaken with the support of European allies and Arab partners, to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and address the threat posed to international peace and security by the crisis in Libya.As part of the multilateral response authorized under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973,
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Did he inform congress after action was begun?
I figured he’d say, “I Won”.
How can it be discrete if he just announced it to the world?
LOL, those pictures I saw were hardly discreet.
NO YOU CAN'T!!!! You can only impeach someone who has been legally elected President of the United States/
Which madman? Obama or Daffy?
Over this...No...
Over fraudulently running for the office....probably.
Which do you think?
I cannot view this action as either doscrete or discreet. Neither of these words fist an open action in what could be a continuing involvement.
Damned fat fingers
Uh...both are madmen. Both are destructive.
I wonder if he didn’t intentionally circumvent congress as a challenge to their authority. Knowing full well none of them have the balls to do anything about it. Which, btw, will further diminish the relevance of U.S. Constitution and render the separation of powers meaningless.
Darn it. I thought I was going to learn a new word! LOL
How can 110 Tomahawk missiles launched with media fanfare be “discrete”?
Maybe he means he was “discrete” as to whom he informed...which didn’t include Congress, until after the fact.
He meant discreet didn’t he?
I don’t give a damn about Gaddahfi do you? I don’t give a damn about Libya do you? If you do, why? And more importantly, why now?
We have an out of control madman in the WH. If someone would dig deep enough, they would find his fingerprints all over the middleeast and the various uprisings. What do you think is going to replace each of these governments? It sure as hell won’t be a democracy.
And here we are with a commander in chief directing our military like toy soldiers and no one saying a word. That is what is disturbing.
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