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tekkierich
03-22-2011, 10:08 PM
The good news is that, unlike the Iraq invasion, the United Nations has given the Libyan operation its imprimatur, rendering it "legal" in terms of international law. The bad news is that the United States Congress, the only Constitutionally-recognized war-making body, was rendered irrelevant in the process. As other commentators have pointed out: if President Obama can bomb Libya without a Congressional resolution authorizing him to do so, then a President Barbour or a President Palin can bomb Iran without going to Congress too. In fact, any future president could wake up on the wrong side of the bed one morning and begin firing off the Tomahawks at some hapless country.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/libya-and-obamas-embrace_b_839046.html

Aratus
03-23-2011, 09:03 AM
teddy roosevelt, auld bill mckinley and gunboat diplomacy
under FDR regs via the social~meme of the "W" and admin?