Title: BO to seek Congressional Declaration of War Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Aug 31, 2013 Author:BO Post Date:2013-08-31 14:13:24 by Lod Keywords:None Views:536 Comments:39
The Wash Post article link below gives a summary of how Obama was able to successfully skate around the War Powers Act requirements with regards to Libya.
Obama was actually sued by some Congressmen about Libya, which I did not know at the time.
Basically Obama claimed that he did not need Congress's approval for Libya because the US was "merely" providing "air support" to NATO's operation which was led by France and Britain and the USA was just a bit player in the NATO operation and only fulfilling its obligations as a NATO member.
All B.S. of course, but that's how Obama The Teflon Man managed to pull off the Libya thingy. Also what's unsaid is that Quadafi was a bad actor who still carried bad baggage from the Lockerbie bombing, so the sheeple weren't too concerned if he got deposed. Also there weren't any nations in Qadafi's corner.
IMHO, a different kettle of fish re: Syria from the sheeple's point of view and why they've been burning up telephone lines to their politicians.
1.Benghazi happened and the public world wide got pissed off with the revelations.
2. Western economies by and large have gotten worse since Libya. The people are getting restive in Europe and in the USA. Wars cost taxpayers $.
3. Assad Junior doesn't have any distinctive bad baggage like Quadafi had and Syria hasn't done any bad things to Western nations like Libya did, so Obama has a hard time developing a believable lie about Syria and/or Assad posing a security threat to America.
4. Syria has a strong Orthodox Christian minority in its midst and Assad has been a protector of Christians from the nasty anti-Christian Syrian Sunni majority. So Euro+ US + Russian Christian voters are concerned about what will happen to their brethren in Syria if Tomahawk bombs are dropped in Syria and Assad is deposed. Libya didn't have much of a Christian presence that I can recall.
5. Assad has Russia in his corner and Putin is posturing mano-a-mano stances to The BikeRiderInChief. Assad also has China squawking on his behalf (and properly sending him weapons on the QT).
6. There's no NATO or Arab League to cover Obama's unilateral war of aggression on Syria as there was for Libya.