Posted on 06/20/2011 10:26:20 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Since the United States handed control of the air war in Libya to NATO in early April, American warplanes have struck at Libyan air defenses about 60 times, and remotely operated drones have fired missiles at Libyan forces about 30 times, according to military officials.
The most recent strike from a piloted United States aircraft was on Saturday, and the most recent strike from an American drone was on Wednesday, the officials said.
While the Obama administration has regularly acknowledged that American forces have continued to take part in some of the strike sorties, few details about their scope and frequency have been made public.
The unclassified portion of material about Libya that the White House sent to Congress last week, for example, said “American strikes are limited to the suppression of enemy air defense and occasional strikes by unmanned Predator” drones, but included no numbers for such strikes.
The disclosure of such details could add texture to an unfolding debate about the merits of the Obama administration’s legal argument that it does not need Congressional authorization to continue the mission because United States forces are not engaged in “hostilities” within the meaning of the War Powers Resolution.
Under that 1973 law, presidents must end unauthorized deployments 60 days after notifying Congress that they have introduced American forces into actual or imminent hostilities. That deadline for the Libyan mission appeared to pass on May 20, but the administration contended that the deadline did not apply because the United States’ role had not risen to the level of “hostilities,” at least since it handed control of the mission over to NATO.
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So the dirty bag is still lying, who would have guessed it.
Remember kiddies!
It’s Not-War if the enemy doesn’t shoot back!
You can bomb them in to the stone-age, and it’s not “hostilities” now!!
The OBAMA DOCTRINE:
“I Don’ NEED no stinkin’ Constitution!”
The only thing we can trust about Howdy Doody is that we know every time he opens his mouth a lie is going to come out. He is definately an enemy of the Constitution. Congress had better wake-up!
To me this is just so much B/S.If American satellite missiles and war planes piloted by American Pilots are attacking another country than we are engaged in a war.I don’t like the idea that we are just hired thugs in this war. Get our people out of there along with Afghanistan. Enough is enough
They’re not our hostilities, they’re NATO’s hostilities. /s
This is a war, but what do they expect from some ignorant community organizer that wouldn’t know one end of an AK from another. Howdy Doody has floated to victory on the blood of those that sacrificed their lives to keep free a nation that he is now trying to destroy with his ignorance and hatred of all we stand for. I want him out of the WH before he does more damage.
From the NY Slimes no less, Obambi is not happy.
Ping.
the US is NATO. Anyone who thinks otherwise is ignorant. Or a fool.
Thanks Jet Jaguar.
Correct.
————It’s Not-War if the enemy doesn’t shoot back!——
The counter attack will be against a Wookie running around Africa.
That will be tit for tat
Thanks for the heads up Jet Jaguar
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By Zero’s logic, another country could bomb US military installations 60 times in the States and we’d just sit back and absorb it as it’s not an act of war.
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