“Secretary Panetta:
Let me just for the record be clear again. Senator, so there is no misunderstanding, When it comes to the national defense of this country, the President of the United States has the authority under the constitution to act to defend this country. And we will. If it comes to an operation where we are trying to build a coalition of nations to work together to go in and operate as we did in Libya, or Bosnia, or for that matter, Afghanistan, we want to do it with permissions either by NATO or the international community”
Notice who he left out of the equation? Us!
Glenn Beck talked about this for the longest time — Congress becoming irrelevant. Congress can’t be much more irrelevant than this...