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When Mr. Obama first announced American military involvement in Libya, he notified Congress within 48 hours, as prescribed by the War Powers Act.
This initiated a 60-day period, during which he was required to obtain approval from Congress; if he failed to do so, the act gave him at most 30 days to halt all “hostilities.”
When Mr. Obama first announced American military involvement in Libya, he notified Congress within 48 hours, as prescribed by the War Powers Act.
This initiated a 60-day period, during which he was required to obtain approval from Congress; if he failed to do so, the act gave him at most 30 days to halt all “hostilities.”
NATO is now the enforcement arm of the European Money Center banks in London, Paris, Geneva, Amsterdam and Bonn. All loan sharks need gangsters to enfore their monopoly and collect the debts. We have been reduced to being international thugs just as we were in South America a century ago.
Might as well back it up to the Vietnam war...or as they call it the American War.
Keep going. Phillipines insurrection, Spanish/American war, Korea. I'd give WWII a pass. It's not a new thing, nor R vs D. We need a real change in leadeship.
I wonder how many here have read this opinion piece that was written in June of 2011. I agree with much of what Ackerman says but wonder if we haven't witnessed the final nail in the coffin of a law passed by Congress who had nothing to do with the killing of the law. The War Powers Act was aimed at those Presidents who had put us into Vietnam and then stretched the thing out. I think that this last act by our President has pretty well boarded up the act of Congress that was meant to lessen the power of Presidents to get us into wars, of any kind.
"If the precedent Mr. Obama has created is allowed to stand, future presidents who do not like what the Justice Department is telling them could simply cite the example of Mr. Obama’s war in Libya and instruct the White House counsel to organize a supportive “coalition of the willing” made up of the administration’s top lawyers. Even if just one or two agreed, this would be enough to push ahead and claim that the law was on the president’s side.
Allowing the trivialization of the War Powers Act to stand will open the way for even more blatant acts of presidential war-making in the decades ahead. Congress must confront the increasingly politicized methods White House lawyers are using to circumvent established law and stop them from transforming it into an infinitely malleable instrument of presidential power.
If Congress does not act, the Constitution’s command that the president “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” will become nothing more than an unfulfilled hope on an old piece of parchment."
The Congress sat on its hands the past 4 months and allowed Obama to finish the law in contention here.
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