Posted on 03/22/2011 5:07:54 AM PDT by shortstop
Freep Mail
The POTUS has just violated the Constitution and the War Powers Act which puts us smack into a military junta standing as a nation. You might worry a little more about that than your lust for revenge.
The only thing Barry has left is his base and now they are turning on him.
I never saw where Obama obtained congressional approval for his war nor where Libya was a threat to the US requiring military response.
Obama is a War Criminal for starting an Illegal War!
This is why you don’t give a man-child the reigns to the military...he doesn’t know when to use it.
I believe the main reason we got into this mess was to help Europe keep Libyan oil flowing to them. So what’s in it for us, or rather, what’s in it for 0bama and his minions? That’s the $64,000 question. This is a REAL Blood for Oil war imo, not the phoney charge they hung on Bush’s neck.
The 17th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified in 1913
State Legislatures, who were expert in the state's business, and who kept day to day tabs on the state's representatives to the Federal government, were the one's who the founding fathers had elect the Senators. This relationship protected the state's interests against the Federal government's interests.
The 17th amendment did away with that working relationship and made 'the people' responsible for keeping tabs on the federal reps also. (But it did not change the length of the senator's terms. Who can keep track of what these guys are doing for 6 years?)
This amendment has resulted in, as the framers predicted, a national government with influence, power and control unchecked by any political mechanism.
The original U.S. Constitution gave state governments a strong voice in the national government by requiring them to select U.S. Senators - to serve much like ambassadors today at the United Nations - and thus created the U.S. Congress to be a political (not judicial) venue for the competition between state government interests and national government interests.
Consider that those in state government claim a responsibility to address questions in the areas of taxation, education, employment, disaster relief, public safety, transportation, health care, marriage, and property rights, to name but a few. Yet all of those issues, and far more, are now primarily mandated, regulated, or directed out of Washington, DC, far away from the people being impacted by those policies. While the state governments bear much of the responsibility for their citizens, they have only secondary authority to do anything about the issues they face. When federal courts decline, as they frequently do, to interpret the 10th Amendment as protecting the sovereignty of states, without a voice in the U.S. Senate the states have no recourse. Repealing the 17th would address this deficiency.
Read more: http://www.restorefederalism.org/?gclid=CK6xks_14qcCFYxd5Qodpi739w
Your logic is mindless.
How about the war right here, right under your nose?
How about the war on the Texas/Mexico border and the thousands being killed?
How about the hundreds of thousands murdered, robbed, raped, wounded, run over, shot, stabbed, and burglarized American victim of this violent invasion of millions of Mexicans invading the U.S.?
What about this epic lawless murder and violence?
A good president would do all of the above.
We did send the army into Mexico to get Pancho Villa.
We did send the military into Panama after Craterface.
We do have the means to protect our borders, we just dont have any leaders with the necessary genitalia to actually do it.
We apparently didnt have any concrete evidence against Qadafi until one of his former ambassadors spilled the beans. That alone should have given us enough reason to go into Libya to get him. Murder of 270 people is a crime without expiration date.......
Then we agree, Bush was just another lousy President.
Well hell, everyone can’t be perfecty like obama. According to his disciples and worshippers, even Jesus and Almighty God fall short when compared to thir messiah. And probably Gore or Kerry would have made a better President.
To imply we can bomb Qadaffi for Pan Am is an implication that tomorrow we can bomb Japan for Pearl Harbor.
That was before we found out that he, personally, ordered the bombing, not just that it was planned and carried out in his country, by some of his agents. That makes him a conspirator in murder. Unless Bush signed a full pardon, that would make him unprosecutable in the US, would it be non casus belli. The UK, Scotland, and any other country that had people on that illfated flight, would have reason enough to prosecute him as well.....
Unfortunately Obama did not get that memo. He says we’re there for another reason.
I think it's stupid to be hitting a hornets nest if you have no will to destroy the hornets when they awaken and are now angry.
Americans tourists will again be sitting ducks on 747s. Thank to this action.
I suspect the ‘reason’ is poll numbers........
With all the uber security nowadays, that is a remote possibility. The coalition seems to be fractured and will fall apart without American leadership, which we have none at the present time......
Having capitulated on one, and become mired in another, we start yet a third.
Whoa right there, Bob. There are a lot of families missing members who were on a certain airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, who would disagree rather heartily with that statement.
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