Re: Obama Goes to War
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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I'm not an expert but I believe that is part of the War Powers Act, which is "extra-constitutional". There is an argument as to when the War Powers Act clock starts ticking and/or when it technically applies to a military action. I'm disgusted by Obama's Orwellian hypocrisy on this issue, and watching what I did of his speech would have had me rolling on the floor laughing at the double speak/standard if it weren't such a serious thing. Also waiting 10 days after committing troops to speak to the public and explain it, (to the extent that farce could be called an explanation), is beyond an abject failure of basic leadership. The whole things seems to be ill thought out and half-assed. But.... I think that the conservatives going after him on the constitutional issue would be first in line claiming that a republican president had the power to do what Obama is doing. Obviously, the law/constitution can be argued both ways, just as it can be and is on many other issues, but I don't believe the issue has never been definitively decided by the Supreme Court. Personally, I think a case can be made that stopping genocide or massive atrocities is legitimately within our national interest. I'm not sure Libya reaches that level, though. Suffice it to say there was far more legitimate, non wmd, justification for taking out Saddam than there is for what we are doing in Libya. Mike F. ________________________________ From: Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, March 29, 2011 4:03:49 PM Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Obama Goes to War On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Mike Findlay wrote: > Congress has the power to declare war but, arguably, the president as the >commander in chief has the power to make war, and that is more than just a >semantic difference. But his power is constricted to specific imminent circumstances, no? -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot