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How sensationalistic of you to title it this way and cherry pick your quotes to support it. This was not the Department of Justice, or the Pentagon speaking as whole bodies, they are Jeh C. Johnson, the Pentagon general counsel, and Caroline D. Krass, the acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.
Originally posted by Kali74
Why does it keep seemingly to be forgotten that this is a NATO mission, that we were asked for help by the UN based on Ghaddafi's actions of slaughtering Libyans because they want him to step down? This was not some random attack on a leader or a nation just because Obama felt like it.
Originally posted by Kali74
Originally posted by The Old American
reply to post by Kali74
Whew. I thought you had taken complete leave.
The whole point here, at least as I read it, is that many people keep telling him that he needs to pull out of Libya. Not just because they feel it's illegal, but because it's wrong.
Hell, let's say it's legal. The problem here is that he has authorized an attack on a country that has not attacked us. And he gets his back up about it every time someone says we need to leave them alone. He can't seem to admit that while he feels he had authorization to do it, he should never have done it in the first place.
/TOA
My take on it is, "people" who have something to gain by taking a stance against the President keep telling him he needs to pull out of Libya.
Why does it keep seemingly to be forgotten that this is a NATO mission, that we were asked for help by the UN based on Ghaddafi's actions of slaughtering Libyans because they want him to step down? This was not some random attack on a leader or a nation just because Obama felt like it.
Originally posted by Kingbreaker
reply to post by Kali74
Obama usurped our sovereignty to the U.N in order to get things moving. this was a concerted effort by two powers.
Originally posted by R3N3G4D3
So by Barry's standards America shouldn't have invaded Afghanistan because the Taliban didn't TECHNICALLY have boots on the ground in America
Originally posted by Kali74
reply to post by Vitchilo
Funny, the three people that posted the same story after you did, managed to minimize it.
A more accurate title would have been along the lines of... Obama favors administration legal advice over The Office of Legal Counsel on Libya. Still has your slant even.edit on 18-6-2011 by Kali74 because: (no reason given)edit on 18-6-2011 by Kali74 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by R3N3G4D3
So by Barry's standards America shouldn't have invaded Afghanistan because the Taliban didn't TECHNICALLY have boots on the ground in America
Originally posted by incrediblelousminds
reply to post by GovtFlu
yeah, nothing like trying to Compare Obama to Hitler to make any point you might make completely irrelevant.
Familiar with Godwin's law?
Originally posted by Zieg7410
So let me get this straight. Say we spin this the other way around and someone like China were to roll up off our west coast and just casually started launching missiles at us daily, even one that hit Obama's family but spared him, it wouldn't be seen as hostilities? There isn't a chance in hell that would ever be acceptable, so how can they construe what they're doing as not being hostile?