WASHINGTON – Hours after U.S. and British ships pounded Libya with precision missiles, American officials are eager to confirm that the damage was extensive enough to allow air patrols to protect civilians being targeted by embattled strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
Military officials said that as Sunday dawned in Libya, satellites would give commanders a better view of the expected destruction along the country's coastline. U.S. and British ships launched the first phase of the missile assault Saturday, raining 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles onto more than 20 radar systems, communications centers and surface-to-air missile sites.
Attacking a sovereign nation is clearly an act of war.. one that was not approved of by Congress. The Constitution is quite explicit on that.
Obama should face impeachment for launching a war in violation of the Constitution.
He won't, of course. Americans love war.. enjoy using a superior military to bomb the shit out of other nations regardless of the justification, and the law be damned.
Obama needs to lose the next Presidential election, and we need need a President that will adhere to the Constitution that they are sworn to defend and protect. I suppose it goes without saying that any Republican that wins will be just as eager to shred the document as Obama and Bush has done. That really is the disaster that is the Obama administration. He's legitimized the most serious of law breaking.
Presidents can now simply attack any nation they want so long as they make up a plausible explanation, and not have to convince anyone else that it is justified. They just tell the military to attack, and they attack.
It's rather shocking that people don't understand that.
4 comments:
i want gadaffi to win the war anyway, i would miss him and his uniforms and sun glasses from the world stage.
he renounced support for terrorism, removed wmd and stopped millions of illegal immigrants getting into europe as well as signing oil deals with the west.
the main thing gadaffi must be thinking, is that he wished he kept the wmd, then the west would not have attacked...thats a lesson for dictators the world over, get wmd and keep hold of them.
the uk, france etc threw in their lot with the 'nice' rebels too soon thinking they were backing a winning horse. now it looks like the horse will loose, they are trying to influence the result... because gadaffi - once he wins, as he will - will punich the west for their betrayal. he'll sign contracts for oil and arms with china, and we'll loose the influence we recently had.....and those rebels, they are from benghazi, where i read in the telegraph that 85% of libyans captured in iraq fighting the US were from beghazi and the surrounding area. makes it sound like the 'nice' rebels could be quite possibly islamic fundamentalist types, and these could end up running libya, on the southern edge of europe.
a war that would have lasted a few more days will now run for weeks and months.
when gadaffi causes civilian deaths with collateral damage it is treated in a completely different manner than when there were similar civilian deaths in serbia/iraq/afghanistan by allied forces. will be be getting involed in yemen and bahrain now?
finally...if atlanta or manchester was taken over by terrorists you would expect obama or cameron to take military action to retake these cities...why is it unacceptable for gadaffi to do the same in libya?
this whole action is cameron wanting his winston churchill moment and the west once again meddling in something that has potential to harm..
roger sanchez
Libyan oil is the least of the issue as far as I'm concerned. They contribute a very small percentage anyway.
The big deal is that US presidents keep launching wars without getting Congress to declare war, and since Vietnam, we've seen how they all turn out.
What a fucking mess.
And ya.. the English like to go along with anything the US wants. US prez says jump, they jump. It's like the English are Americas' lap dogs.
How the mighty have fallen.
to tell you the truth, this time i think it was france and the uk itching to get involved.
i just think it would have been better if we had all kept out of it. we wont get any thanks. and some of our bombs or missiles will hit civilians and that will cause us lots of bad publicity. the arabs are bailing out already and having second thoughts about it all. and we'll probably end up bringing extreme islamists to power.
roger
Post a Comment