Muscatine

Insipid twit or not, the words are not there.  Some others here may need to check their reading skills.  It's more than disappointing when someone misquotes something and then gets all huffy and self-righteous and starts name calling when it is pointed out.    Can't we have a discussion based on the actual facts?

See previous post on the subject of those words not being there.

Why are you so fixated on the exact words?  When you know you are going down the tubes you do start parsing the posts don't you.  You really do exhibit anal retentive behavior.  You really shouldn't be so asinine and trifling.  It's not becoming or productive.

Try to get your head around this:

The 1973 War Powers Act was put in place to prevent a US President from doing exactly what Barack Obama just did.

SEC. 2. (a) It is the purpose of this joint resolution to fulfill the intent of the framers of the Constitution of the United States and insure that the collective judgment of both the Congress and the President will apply to the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, and to the continued use of such forces in hostilities or in such situations.

A US Commander-in-Chief can order use of military force in only three specific conditions…

(1) a declaration of war,

(2) specific statutory authorization, or

(3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.

The US Congress has not declared war against a foreign nation since WWII. But when George W. Bush sent troops into Afghanistan and Iraq following the September 11, 2001 attacks on US soil, he not only consulted congress in advance, he sought and received specific statutory authorization from congress before ordering troops into combat. Bush complied with the constitution and War Powers Act under conditions (2) and (3). He also had a broad coalition of UN partners backed by years of Iraqi broken UN resolutions.

In the case of Obama and Libya, none of these conditions exist.

1) Congress did not declare war.

2) Congress was not consulted and did not give specific statutory authorization.

3) The US was not attacked in any way by Libya which presented no threat to the US or US assets.

As a result, Barack Obama had NO constitutional authority to attack Libya

And by the way:  

Obama (Dec., 2007): ‘President Does Not Have Power Under Constitution to Unilaterally Authorize a Military Attack’

And then there are the missile attacks into Pakistan that these liberals choose not to respond to.....No Congressional approval or UN approval for those either! What have the libs said here about those? NOTHING!