In an attempt to thwart growing discontent with the war in Libya, two top senators on Tuesday unveiled a resolution that would give President Obama the authority to continue operations there for one year.
The President did not seek congressional approval when he launched airstrikes on Libya on March 19, which in mid-May became illegal under the War Powers Resolution. Disregarding the legal advice of his top administration and military lawyers, Obama held last week that U.S. military operations in Libya are exempt from the requirements of the War Powers Resolution.
After various bipartisan attempts in Congress to effectively force the President to terminate all Libya operations absent the consent of the legislature, and after a provocative legal case laid against Obama for engaging in an illegal war, Senator John McCain and Senator Kerry have now introduced a resolution in order to validate Obama’s war in Libya before the growing opposition could stop him.
Given that such congressional opposition to Obama’s expansive application of executive authority has the full force of law behind it, and given the fact that it does represent the will of the people in this case, this resolution reveals an intention to prevent any challenge whatsoever to the Executive’s war-making powers.
This development comes as growing opposition to the Libyan war has begun to spill over into Afghanistan. The McCain-Kerry resolution was introduced one day before President Obama’s announcement on troop levels in Afghanistan. Democrats in Congress have been pressuring Obama for a full drawdown of troops, while the Republican Party has been voicing concerns with rising noninterventionist sentiment of late.
But with Afghanistan and apparently with Libya as well, this administration has demonstrated its determination to do whatever it takes to continue to break the law and conduct war without challenge.
Who IS this John Kerry guy anyway…… Once antiwar and honest……. now the lawless warmonger GTFO John…… You have betrayed ME, US your constituents……. We do not want America giong bankrupt morally and financially invading other peoples countries and killing them…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too late for that, it seems…
Bunch of doddering old fools.
One has but to look at McCain or Kerry to understand why the American public now holds its leaders in such open contempt.
Apparently he was an antiwar pretender.
Are these people grasping that they are there to enforce a "no fly zone"? And how has this morphed into a full blown war? At present, the party we are supporting is no longer enjoying the support of their own base in Benghazi. But now, nobody is any longer asking what people of Libya think or want. The population of Benghazi that wanted a change of regime understands that their call for political change has been hijacked by militants, and politicians that came from various foreign countries! With the destruction of Libya's infrastructure and civilian population deaths, there is no longer any real popular support for the rebels. But they are now recognized by NATO countries, and the population is stuck with the government they neither wanted nor selected! And McCain wants a one-year war. It will morph into a ten year war, as the endless guerilla "militants" will oppose the occupation of Libya. Here we go again! Are these politicians out of touch, or what.
McCain/Kerry? Sit down and STFU!!! It is NOT okay for Obama to be messing around in Libya for two more days let alone, one year. WTF is the matter with you warmongering lunatics? Hey Kerry? You catsup poser of a loser, any of YOUR kiddies fighting on the front lines? I'm taking bets here. Bet is, Kerry kiddies are NOT serving in America's military. Bets? Anyone?
Whatever happened to "days, not weeks"?
I knew that was a lie the moment I heard it.
It always is. There's this myth that's spread by the fly-boy types at the start of every war that all you have to do is to set the fly-boys off to start bombing, and they'll end it all in just a few days.
Gulf War I, Yugoslavia, Iraq War … we see this same cycle all the time. The war starts with the fly-boys promising they'll end the war quickly. But they can't, because aerial bombing never done this successfully. So, then the quagmire begins. Then the calls to put 'boots on the ground' to settle the quagmire start to come. If we don't have enough sense to say no to that, then the long struggle of an invading and occupying army against the people who don't want them there begins. And since the occupier will never be wanted and accepted by the oppressed locals, this goes on and on until the inevitable end of withdrawal and finally letting the locals do what they want. There is no other possible end, as the occupier will never be loved and accepted.
The empire has to roll out these imperial fossils to keep this evil charade going? What the hell?! This should teach any so called liberal or conservative that there isn't a dimes worth of difference between the two parties. War is the cement that binds these evil people.
ZionistNeoCon John McCain – senile and as dumb and stupid as they come – he who gave us idiot Sarah Palin.
John Kerry – tossed his Vietnam War medals away – now a complete idiot.
One would think that these two who served in the Vietnam War would know better than to advocate wars in which we have NO business – but – it seems that both McCain and Kerry have gone INSANE.
Both McCain and Kerry arte TRAITORS to the people they are suppose to represent in Congress – and both need to be voted out of office!
President Barack Hussein Obama needs to be IMPEACHED and removed form office!
NO more wars – bring the troops home NOW!
One is a cowboy without a horse the other one is ketchup man without a cause.., they just want wars no matter where or no matter with who or where or for what.., as long as there is a war is good for them, they make money out of it they can make it longer then is better for them.., this is how a falsified system based on lies and deceptions works, works for these people not those who lose or going to lose everything while these little wars are continued.., these people simply look like a human but I wonder if they think as an intelligent one. Well the one which once upon a time was antiwar.., now have tested the good stuff by investing into war machinery.., is a good business with good dividend as long as a war is on going, I mean just look at the guy.., you don’t need to know him.., he is so fitly dressed he looks like a warmonger.
One has to wonder if Heinz provides all the Ketchup for the mercenaries…errrr…I mean troops.
Send the idiot McCain back to Vietnam….he obviously still hasn't learned his lesson
And he never will.
What a disgusting warmonger Kerry has turned out to be. Goes to show you how absolute power corrupts absolute. McCain has always been a senile whore so no comment needed there.
I wonder how many Libyans the US is trying to help will be killed in the process in another year of NATziO bombing…I've heard they are running out of targets to bomb, so does that mean they follow the Israeli-centric mode of bombing civilian infrastructure?
What a bunch of thieving scavengers and scumb*gs, but who can really be surprised at this point?
Those sneaky SOBs–one year becomes 10, and a drawdown will take 5 years. It's all a con game to keep the military in jobs. The military is burying Obama in the US and Camerin in the UK.
So, John Kerry, the Winter Soldier, who once asked how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam, now becomes the old man in Washington who asks today's young men to die in John Kerry's wars. I wonder what the young John Kerry would think of this old John Kerry?
He would say he sold out.
of course they bring the two war "heros" of Congress out to sell this blatant oil conquest, one Republican, one Democrat. Both fully bought and paid for. I knew that Kerry was a complete sellout from even before he went off to Vietnam – he's had power and privilege in his sights from day one. His sellout on Iraq was proof and this disgusting servility to Corporate interests just underlines and underscores it.
So great congressional "leaders" — former candidates for the Chief Executive office themselves — can only muster a figleaf of appeasement for the brazenly lawless President who contemptuously mocks them (and our Republic)? Really? Please, please, please let Nov 6, 2012 come tomorrow and let the electorate slap the warmongers down so hard that they have no choice but to slither back into the shadows, at least for awhile. If they can still be effective, I think ballots are a much better approach than bullets. I guess we'll see.
Americans really need to show that they are smart and vote both out of power.And Ron Paul should be president unless you want the wars to conyinue with others to follow.If you don't agree with some things he has planed witch is normal you in most cases would not agree with everthing a person says.But you can take the fact that he will sirictly follow the US constitution.Witch is 100 times better tan anyone now and in the times since JFK.Paul just needs more protection than most past Presidents becausae of all the corrupt people involved with the corperations calling the shots from behind the sceen.We can't changew the past but JFK would have pointed the US in the vright direction like Ron Paul will do.Follow the constitution and hopefully bring all the criminal presidents and othersd involved to justise.Than GOD will judge them in the end for there evil witch they will never trully repent and be forgiven because vthey are now and forever part of the Devil.