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To: Patrick1
I have not heard Obama make a claim a war with Lybia is vital.

What Obama relies on is the UN making a resolution. You don't like lawyers but you like the UN?

Obama is not making the case you are. Right there you should be against what Obama is doing. According to Obama, there is no war.

44 posted on 06/17/2011 11:09:15 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Of course I don’t like the UN. My point is not that Libya is right or wrong. I’m just saying he has the authority to act regardless of what some lawyer thinks. No President should ever base the conduct of foreign policy on the opinion of laywers.

There are constitutional ways to stop the Obama policy if Congress disagrees with it. They can cut off funding or publicly vote against the actions. Though that can’t stop Obama from continuing. But Congress will do neither of these things because to them there is no political benefit.

The War Powers Act was passed as a result of the Vietnam War. It is designed to get Congress off the hook by assuming that every foreign policy action that involves military action is the same. Laughable, any lawyer could have told them that was nonsense and it also happens to be unconstitutional. Maybe a President Palin or Romney or whomever will challenge it in court.


47 posted on 06/17/2011 11:16:08 PM PDT by Patrick1 ("The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine." - Abraham Lincoln)
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