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Did I miss a Declaration of War? (vanity)

Posted on 03/19/2011 4:02:39 PM PDT by Leaning Right

I just watched the news. US ships are firing at Libya. I was out fishing this morning, so I missed the early reports. Did we declare war on Libya? Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution grants Congress the exclusive power to declare war, so that's what happened...right?


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To: dragnet2

More people are dying daily in Chicago due to gunshot wounds.


61 posted on 03/19/2011 4:34:24 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: no-to-illegals
I think Congress is gone on spring break. Am I wrong?

You are correct.

62 posted on 03/19/2011 4:34:24 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Uncle Ike

LOL!

;)


63 posted on 03/19/2011 4:35:15 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (The Tree of Liberty did not grow from an ACORN!)
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To: dragnet2

You’ll scare the whole of Mexico here. Then what we gonna do? /s


64 posted on 03/19/2011 4:36:38 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Glenn
This is no different than helping Haiti. People are dying and we are doing what we need to do to stem that.

More people are dying on the Mexican/Texas border, not to mention Mexicans are causing great harm to our economy, choked off our medical system and have, killed, raped, robbed shot, stabbed, and ran over tens of thousands of Americans ...Shouldn't be be bombing Mexico?

Well?

Where'd ya go??

65 posted on 03/19/2011 4:37:26 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Leaning Right

Gosh when Bush went to war in Iraq on a UN mandate, Congress had vote and if I recall Obama voted no.


66 posted on 03/19/2011 4:38:59 PM PDT by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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To: Leaning Right

NO BLOOD FOR OIL! (and make no mistake about it, this is what it is about)


67 posted on 03/19/2011 4:39:00 PM PDT by blasater1960 (Deut 30, Psalm 111...the Torah and the Law, is attainable past, present and forever.)
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To: darkside321

“Well i´m not shure that you need a declaration of War to enforce a UN resolution.”

I hope the uncapitalized “i” and the “shure” misspelling are your way of indicating that the sentiment you express is appropriate for only the illiterate.

Just in case my hope is misplaced, do you really think the Constitution might say, “The Congress shall have the power to declare war; except that when the U.N. says the war is okay, the President shall have the power to declare war”?


68 posted on 03/19/2011 4:40:20 PM PDT by olrtex
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To: blasater1960
NO BLOOD FOR OIL! (and make no mistake about it, this is what it is about)

The proof is in the pudding, this same crew idly stood by while one million Rwandans got slaughtered. No oil in Rwanda.

69 posted on 03/19/2011 4:41:39 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SECURE AMERICA; fso301

I see your point. But the War Powers Act was meant to give the President some flexibility when the US was under attack or under immediate threat of attack.

Neither is the case with Libya. This is just another example of the elites casually ignoring the Constitution.


70 posted on 03/19/2011 4:44:25 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I carrying this lantern, you ask. I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Glenn

Or the hundreds of thousands in Sudan.


71 posted on 03/19/2011 4:45:52 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Leaning Right
War was declared against the US on Jan 20th, 2009.

The enemy is holding two branches of government, pissing away our treasure and our childrens future.

72 posted on 03/19/2011 4:46:12 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: Leaning Right

This is an example of that New World Order thing to which we are now expected to show our allegiance.


73 posted on 03/19/2011 4:48:40 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: Leaning Right

Screw Lybia and politics, did you catch any fish?


74 posted on 03/19/2011 4:48:56 PM PDT by fish hawk (R. Emmett Tyrrell: Liberalism is dead. What we see now is "soft Nazis-ism".)
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To: dragnet2
Maybe we should bomb Mexico too?

That would actually make more sense.

75 posted on 03/19/2011 4:51:24 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: wideawake

The last time I checked, there were no reports of a Libyan invasion of a NATO country.


76 posted on 03/19/2011 4:52:21 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
The last time I checked, there were no reports of a Libyan invasion of a NATO country.

Serbia didn't invade a NATO country either, still it was "Bombs Away!"

77 posted on 03/19/2011 4:53:13 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Leaning Right
Obama has been quite clear on this subject:

The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

As Commander-in-Chief, the President does have a duty to protect and defend the United States. In instances of self-defense, the President would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent. History has shown us time and again, however, that military action is most successful when it is authorized and supported by the Legislative branch. It is always preferable to have the informed consent of Congress prior to any military action.

From Ed Driscoll quoting the Boston Globe.
78 posted on 03/19/2011 4:53:20 PM PDT by TChad
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To: dragnet2

Why not, don’t you know we got a comunist government down across that border? Where you been? Why you think all those Mexicans come here for? Might makes right no matter what. God answers me in prayer all the time and he says might makes right, so your suggestion is a good one.


79 posted on 03/19/2011 4:53:49 PM PDT by Fleur Noir
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To: Leaning Right
Democracy or dictator, what does the sovereignty of a nation mean in this modern era???
80 posted on 03/19/2011 4:54:21 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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