The cocky tyrant....

[NOVA]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/world/africa/18powers.html?_r=1

2 Top Lawyers Lost to Obama in Libya War Policy Debate
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
Published: June 17, 2011

WASHINGTON — President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department when he decided that he had the legal authority to continue American military participation in the air war in Libya without Congressional authorization, according to officials familiar with internal administration deliberations.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans and Democrats on Thursday derided President Barack Obama's claim that U.S. air attacks against Libya do not constitute hostilities and demanded that the commander in chief seek congressional approval for the 3-month-old military operation.

In an escalating constitutional fight, House Speaker John Boehner threatened to withhold money for the mission, pitting a Congress eager to exercise its power of the purse against a dug-in White House. The Ohio Republican signaled that the House
http://tinyurl.com/3ck8sda
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This arrogant ass needs to be cut down a notch or two..he thinks he a dictator\\\\

 

[SmarterthanYou]

this will be no different than the bush admin arguments about legal counsel advising something, even in direct contradiction to the constitution. Obama has plausible deniability now.

 

[apple0154]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/world/africa/18powers.html?_r=1

2 Top Lawyers Lost to Obama in Libya War Policy Debate
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
Published: June 17, 2011

WASHINGTON — President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department when he decided that he had the legal authority to continue American military participation in the air war in Libya without Congressional authorization, according to officials familiar with internal administration deliberations.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans and Democrats on Thursday derided President Barack Obama's claim that U.S. air attacks against Libya do not constitute hostilities and demanded that the commander in chief seek congressional approval for the 3-month-old military operation.

In an escalating constitutional fight, House Speaker John Boehner threatened to withhold money for the mission, pitting a Congress eager to exercise its power of the purse against a dug-in White House. The Ohio Republican signaled that the House
http://tinyurl.com/3ck8sda
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This arrogant ass needs to be cut down a notch or two..he thinks he a dictator\\\\

It's all part of Obama's grooming for leadership of the New World Order. A take-charge type of guy.

 

[NOVA]

this will be no different than the bush admin arguments about legal counsel advising something, even in direct contradiction to the constitution. Obama has plausible deniability now.

"plausible deniability" is exactly the opposite of your perception....Obama was advised of something being illegal and can't deny not knowing that....

 

[Good Luck]

Actually, Obama is correct, and has several SCOTUS cases which agree with him. It was settled way back at the start of the Civil War that the President, as commander in chief, has full authority to deploy military force where ever he sees the potential for a threat. This authority has been upheld in several subsequent challenges. That is why Congress was unable to put a stop to Vietnam, even when a veto-proof bi-partisan majority in congress desired to do so. And while I strongly dislike the idea of one man having that much authority, the fact is, under current Constitutional framework, he does. The reason: military action is, by definition, military, while the act of declaring war is a political action. They are distinct, and separate (though related) powers which were granted separately to the different branches of government.

Also, while Congress does control the purse strings of the military, they do not have the authority to pull funding for specific military actions. (ie: they cannot say "yes, you can still pay the soldiers in Afghanistan, but you can't buy bombs for attacking Libya.") They can only defund the military as a whole to have any effect on the ability of the military to conduct operations ordered by the CinC.