It was not Sexual Relations as I believe them to be defined

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110618/pl_afp/libyaconflictuspolitics_20110618083255



So another president is having fun with personal interpretation. So Obama says piss on the war powers act because these essentially arent hostilities as he(and two slimeball lawyers I guess) believes them to be defined.



Newsflash, if you are shooting at something at any time dropping bombs et al, fuckin hostilities, period.



Get permission from friggin congress.

 

[sth]

I'm a big fan of Obama, but sometimes he pisses me off. And this is one of those times. Just get congressional approval. If the Republicans who were pushing so hard for this vote it down than fine then pull out the troops and put it on them. One thing is for sure it doesn't matter who becomes President once Presidential power gets expanded future Presidents don't give it up. If Ron Paul became President even he wouldn't give up the power.

 

[TSD]

I'm a big fan of Obama, but sometimes he pisses me off. And this is one of those times. Just get congressional approval. If the Republicans who were pushing so hard for this vote it down than fine then pull out the troops and put it on them. One thing is for sure it doesn't matter who becomes President once Presidential power gets expanded future Presidents don't give it up. If Ron Paul became President even he wouldn't give up the power.

Yeah, i don't have this issues just because its Obama. You play by the damn rules, The whole point of that the War Powers Act is so ONE PERSON, can decide who and how long we go to war with them. you have 90 days or whatever to play around, if after that congress aint cool with it, then sorry, funs over. Even though in my opinion, just to end this shit, we should actually play a larger role and just lay the stomp on Ghadaffi, if that isnt what congress wants so be it.



Obama is acting very Julius Caesar-esque here.

 

[Variable]

Don't you guys remember what they were calling what was going on in Libya a few months ago? Not acts of war, not hostilities, but KINETIC ACTIVITY. Yep, that's not war, just kinetic military action. They were all very careful to use that buzz word.



“In terms of the heavy KiNeTiC portion of this military action, the president envisions it as lasting days, not weeks,”

- unnamed senior official



“As we are successful in suppressing the [Libyan] air defenses, the level of KiNeTiC activity should decline,”

- Defense Secretary Robert Gates



“I think what we are doing is enforcing a resolution that has a very clear set of goals, which is protecting the Libyan people, averting a humanitarian crisis, and setting up a no-fly zone. Obviously that involves KiNeTiC military action, particularly on the front end.”

- deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes



“Military steps — and they can be KiNeTiC and non-KiNeTiC, obviously the full range — are not the only method by which we and the international community are pressuring Gadhafi,”

- national security adviser Tom Donilon



“The coalition brings together a wide array of capabilities that allow us to minimize the collateral damage when we have to take KiNeTiC operations.”

- Admiral Samuel Locklear, commander of Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn





Calm down everyone, it's Kinectics, that's all. Not war.

(hahaha "averting a humanitarian crisis" so let's BOMB THEM!)

 

[supraman]

I'm a big fan of Obama, but sometimes he pisses me off. And this is one of those times. Just get congressional approval. If the Republicans who were pushing so hard for this vote it down than fine then pull out the troops and put it on them. One thing is for sure it doesn't matter who becomes President once Presidential power gets expanded future Presidents don't give it up. If Ron Paul became President even he wouldn't give up the power.

wanna bet? Or at the very least, if he didnt the people that put him in office sure the **** wouldnt reelect him

 

[LordKOTL]

It's not like this crap is new. After all, Vietnam wasn't a war.

 

[MassHavoc]

These are not the droids you are looking for.

 

[IceHogsFan]

How come the media is letting the man elected to POTUS under the campaign that he will close Gitmo, end the war in Iraq, end the war in Afghanistan (troop surge since elected) and now who is rebuffing Congress with his own interpertations?

 

[Tater]

How come the media is letting the man elected to POTUS under the campaign that he will close Gitmo, end the war in Iraq, end the war in Afghanistan (troop surge since elected) and now who is rebuffing Congress with his own interpertations?

They rarely saying anything negative about the Chosen One.