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To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama defended his decision to order U.S. military action more than three months ago and insisted he had not violated the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which requires congressional authorization within 60 days of the first military strikes.

I hate to dispute the august 'journalists' at the AP, but have they actually READ the War Powers Act. Presidents are only allowed to commit armed forces without PRIOR congressional authorization if the US is under imminent threat or has been actually attacked as we were on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor. If less than that, then Obama was compelled to go to Congress FIRST, as say GHW Bush did prior to Desert Shield/Desert Storm.

Typical half-truth in support of Obama's agenda to screw-up America on behalf of your friendly-neighborhood drive-by Media.

9 posted on 06/29/2011 12:57:22 PM PDT by Tallguy (You can safely ignore anything that precedes the word "But"...)
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To: Tallguy

In Kansas, ‘fuss’ was what our Supreme Court Chief Justice called the uproar created when the public learned that he was in collusion with a party in a case before him.

So, I’m assuming that ‘fuss’ in this case means deadly serious mistake.


14 posted on 06/29/2011 1:02:35 PM PDT by Kanzan
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To: Tallguy

Now I understand why Obama said months ago that the US could absorb another 9/11 style attack.

Under the Obama doctrine, 9/11 wasn’t really a hostile act. The jihadis had no boots on the ground either. They limited casualties to only around 3K.

Got it /s


16 posted on 06/29/2011 1:05:23 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: Tallguy

“... US is under imminent threat or has been actually attacked as we were on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor.”

The U.S. wasn’t attacked at Pearl Harbor. There were no Japanese boots on the ground there. Sure, a few bombs were dropped, but the event never rose to the level of hostilities. /channeling BHO


23 posted on 06/29/2011 1:18:01 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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