Posted on 09/01/2014 2:09:03 PM PDT by Nachum
Washington - President Barack Obama formally notified the U.S. Congress on Monday that he had authorized air strikes and humanitarian airdrops over the weekend in the Iraqi Shi’ite town of Amerli where Islamic State militants had trapped the civilian population. Iraqi security forces backed by Shi´ite militias on Sunday broke the two-month siege of Amerli and entered the northern town after the U.S. military carried out air strikes on militant positions and delivered emergency supplies to residents there. Obama said in a letter to congressional leaders he was notifying Congress of his decision under the long-standing War Powers Resolution,
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Good thing Congress doesn’t need to be in on the decision-making process.
IS is discovering what air power means. They seem to have no defense.
Obama’s got all kinds of powers to disintegrate the ISIS crazies to combat terror. I’d rather Congress not give him more power. He’d just misuse it, like he does with everything else.
Active Duty ping.
What’s the catch? They won’t be back to work until next week. He never just HAPPENS to do things because it’s right. There has to be some benefit to him that he’s done this now when he didn’t do it at any time in the past month.
I want to know how many people were killed.
How many innocent babies and women that were caught in the crossfire.
We heard for a month how many Israel killed. I want to know how many Obama has killed so far.
Do you think we’ll hear this from the Progressive Marxists?
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