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Title: Obama's unauthorized war on Libya costs $9,421,000 a day: Are you getting your money's worth?
Source: Los Angeles Times
URL Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/was ... ress-authority-war-powers.html
Published: Jun 16, 2011
Author: Andrew Malcolm
Post Date: 2011-06-16 08:12:32 by BillNyeSG
Keywords: None
Views: 1991
Comments: 13

The Obama administration is spending almost $9.5 million every single day to blow things up in Libya because the president has determined that is in the country's national interest, this country's national interest, not Libya's.

You may not have noticed the $392,542 flowing out of the national treasury every hour, day and night, since those first $1.5 million Tomahawks flashed from the launch tubes back on March 19.

But Libya's dictator Moammar Kadafi has. Not enough to quit, mind you, because he can hide while his troops do the dying and killing.

Kadafi's military might has been degraded sufficiently by allied missiles and bombs to perhaps create a long-lasting stalemate with rebel forces in the desert conflict that Obama initially promised House members would last a matter of days, not weeks.

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#1. To: BillNyeSG (#0)

What amazes me more than the costs is 0bama's attitude about getting into a hostile conflict without Congressional authorization. Paraphrasing his letter to Congress yesterday:

....consistent with a request from the Arab League, and as authorized by the United Nations Security Council under the provisions of U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973, U.S. military forces commenced operations on March 19, 2011....

It appears he can receive authorization from anyone but Congress anymore. Who pays 0bama's salary anyway?

buckeroo  posted on  2011-06-16   8:17:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: buckeroo (#1)

The ratification of a military treaty, which NATO most certainly is, and under which the US might have to act militarily and engage in hostilities IS COngressional authorization.

war  posted on  2011-06-16   8:28:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: war (#2) (Edited)

The ratification of a military treaty, which NATO most certainly is, and under which the US might have to act militarily and engage in hostilities IS COngressional authorization.

again: the us supreme court has already ruled a treaty cannot supersede or amend the constitution. obama still has to obey the constitution no matter what our nato alliance says.

BillNyeSG  posted on  2011-06-16   8:36:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: BillNyeSG (#3) (Edited)

again: the us supreme court has already ruled a treaty cannot supersede or amend the constitution. obama still has to obey the constitution no matter what our nato alliance says.

And the treaty is discongruent to the USCON exactly how? The treaty AUTHORIZES the alliance to act miltarily and the US is within this alliance. The treay was RATIFIED by the US Senate. The USCON states quite clearly that the POTUS is CIC when the military is "called into service". This treaty is a "call into service..."

I have LOOOONG stated my opposition to treaties such as these. It is an OPEN ENDED military obligation of the US.

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