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WASHINGTON — President Obama and his legal advisers are deliberating about how the United States military may lawfully continue participating in NATO’s bombing campaign in Libya after next week, when the air war will reach a legal deadline for terminating combat operations that have not been authorized by Congress.
Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, a president must terminate such operations 60 days after he has formally notified lawmakers about the introduction of armed forces into actual or imminent hostilities. The Libya campaign will reach that mark on May 20.
Though Congressional leaders have shown little interest in enforcing the resolution, James Steinberg, the deputy secretary of state, was asked Thursday about the deadline at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
The administration apparently has no intention of pulling out of the Libya campaign, and Mr. Steinberg said that Mr. Obama was committed “to act consistently with the War Powers Resolution.” So the Obama legal team is now trying to come up with a plausible theory for why continued participation by the United States does not violate the law.
Another idea is for the United States to order a complete — but temporary — halt to all of its efforts in the Libya mission. Some lawyers make the case that, after a complete pause, the United States could rejoin the mission with a new 60-day clock.
Originally posted by onequestion
join the united nations or die?
whats happening.... guess this whole NWO idea is way beyond what your currently calculating? for the most part...
oh yeah and lets tell the people who created civilization how to live their lives and run their countries... good idea. because they havnt had enough time to figure it out tribally...
Originally posted by beezzer
If he does this then he'll have found a new way to fight wars. He'll make congress irrelevant. He'll become the Emperor. A Dictator.
If he does this, he will make America, and what it stands for, irrelevant.
We're at a dangerous fork in the road. One that, if a certain path is chosen will lead us to a place we don't want to go.edit on 13-5-2011 by beezzer because: Congress made me mis-spell
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
Originally posted by beezzer
If he does this then he'll have found a new way to fight wars. He'll make congress irrelevant. He'll become the Emperor. A Dictator.
If he does this, he will make America, and what it stands for, irrelevant.
We're at a dangerous fork in the road. One that, if a certain path is chosen will lead us to a place we don't want to go.edit on 13-5-2011 by beezzer because: Congress made me mis-spell
The fact the US was under a Defacto Dictatorship between Sept 01 - Jan 09 not mean a thing?
Originally posted by beezzer
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
Originally posted by beezzer
If he does this then he'll have found a new way to fight wars. He'll make congress irrelevant. He'll become the Emperor. A Dictator.
If he does this, he will make America, and what it stands for, irrelevant.
We're at a dangerous fork in the road. One that, if a certain path is chosen will lead us to a place we don't want to go.edit on 13-5-2011 by beezzer because: Congress made me mis-spell
The fact the US was under a Defacto Dictatorship between Sept 01 - Jan 09 not mean a thing?
Sept 01-Jan 09 was then.
I guess, if you want, we can say Sep 01 - Present.
The fact is, the gloves have come off, the mask has fallen away, and any pretense of democracy has fallen away from these vile creatures we have in DC.