How Do U.S. Politicians Get Away With Conducting Illegal Wars?

[Frank DeForrest]

Originally Posted by TempesT68

Has already pulled troops out of Iraq though he should pull them out of both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Though the faux outrage on the right is just BS. Obama has not declared war or put "boots on the ground" If we had a republican president right now, Libya would have been invaded a long time ago and if Obama did decide to go to war with Libya, the right in the house would give him a blank check in the second.

Take your phony baloney strawpeople to another thread.
Obama has proven himself to be a first class warmonger.

[HappyTexan]

There are some speaking out individually but, as a collective, Congress has said nothing on this.
It takes collusion for one branch of the government to do something another branch owns and not have that branch speak up.

Obama did what he did and had the right to do so. But now Congress gets their say and they have said "NOTHING" as a branch of the government.
So they let this war continue..oops.."humanitarian aid" although bombing doesn't seem to quite fit the bill.

[cdubs3201]

Originally Posted by clb10

You would think Americans would be against this...

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But you would be wrong.

This is an easy question.

It's done through fear of a common enemy, then the people "allow" the government to sacrafice certain liberties to "get the bad guys".

Unfortunately, these wars and conflicts are a result of nation building and meddling in foreign affairs that our nation has no business being involved in. The CIA use a term called "Blowback" which is when foreign policy action goes wrong it actually has a negative effect on the US government, and the citizens pay the price (with more debt/taxes, or with their lives).

Since we've been bombing the middle east for over a decade, trying to overthrow political leaders and replace them with leaders of US interests, the failure of these attempts has created hostility in certain nations.

The US has created this hostility because it's a win/win for the government. They succeed in their attempt to nation build and they see the benefits of resources at a discount, industrialization contracts, weapons contracts, military outposts, UN votes. If the are UNsuccessful, they attack American citizens and the government spins propoganda stating "they hate us because we believe in freedom, let's unite against them!" Then they go to war without congress declaration and pass the patriot act, thus undermining our individual liberties.

But it's ok, we need to make sacrafices to fight an enemy on their soil that has no navy and no airforce, and who's military budget is less than 1% of ours...but Bush/Obama says they're a threat and we can't give in.

I have a question for Obama.....when are the troops coming home like you said they would?

[Visvaldis]

We need more wars. Americans like wars. Wars are good for military contractors, you don't see them complaining, do you?
Just recently, 690 billion dollars have been approved for military spending
Be a good, patriotic American...buy a 'support our wars' bumper sticker.

[StillwaterTownie]

IT simply goes clear back to when President Eisenhower left office, warning us about the military industrial complex. Making war is a great money maker. This country hasn't been taking Eisenhower's warnings seriously ever since the Vietnam war.