Oh.. and it seems they're considering sending in ground troops, I guess to compliment the CIA teams that are already in the country.
I suppose since the UN now dictates which countries our military attacks, it's okay.
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The most amusing part of the whole thing is that the Federal Reserve has been giving billions of US tax payer dollars to Qaddafi over the last few years.
I guess it's not a big deal because the money exists as a concept - digital money sitting on hard drives at a bank in Libya, and the Fed can just erase it if they want.
But really.. has everything always been this absurd, and we're just more informed because of the rise of the "digital age", or has things just become really stupid in this country lately?
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And the "Office of Legal Counsel", which is the President's legal team, has determined that Obama didn't need consent from Congress in order to attack Libya because it's not actually a "war". Apparently unloading many very expensive and deadly missiles, imposing a "no fly zone", and bombing the shit out of government troops is not "war" worthy anymore.
Note that they did not assert the President is exempt from Congressional authorization because the UN sanctioned it - which is an incredibly stupid concept in the first place.
But then, apparently, rank stupidity has become something of the norm lately.
[T]he small but vocal band of Obama's hardest-core Internet followers spent weeks haranguing anyone who wrote on this issue by absurdly claiming that a 1945 law concerning the U.N. is dispositive in providing statutory authority for Obama's Libya war; so self-evidently frivolous was this claim that the OLC, in arguing for Obama's war powers authority, does not even bother to mention (let alone rely upon) that statute.
"Absurd" is one way to describe that point, but I think "dumb as fuck" is more appropriate.
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