The War in Libya: Obama's Unconstitutional War Against a Muslim Nation |
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Friday, 01 April 2011 23:02 | |||
By Jesse Jose L ibyans against Libyans. Muslims against Muslims. But amidst all these, I can hear gleeful laughter from another Muslim: Osama bin Laden. Don't mean to be insensitive about killings and deaths and all that. But I think there's something laughable about the war in And this laughter is because of those Libyan rebels, that President Obama and the coalition allies, have chosen to side with in this Libyan Civil War, that according to US and British intelligence reports, "teems with Al Qaeda fighters and supporters." Picture it, Dear Readers. Can y'all really blame then Osama for laughing at Obama? O bama is barking at the wrong tree, so to speak. Even State Secretary Hilary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates both admitted that "we don't really know who these 'rebels' are." According to reports, those rebels mostly came from the eastern part of Civilians, yes, but armed with war weapons, and willing to die for their cause. Just like those civilian-attired dangerously-armed Viet Congs during the Vietnam War, civilian farmers during the day, but Viet Congs and fierce fighters at night. WHY ACTION WAS JUSTIFIED: In his speech Monday night to the American public thoroughly confused about U.S. policy in Libya, Obama said that the reason America intervened on Gadhafi's dastardly deeds against his own people was because: "To brush aside America's responsibility as a leader -- and more profoundly -- our responsibilities to our fellow human beings under such circumstances would have been a betrayal of who we are." Really? Who are we, really? How come we didn't intervene in the genocides in But there's oil in FROM NO- So, some of Gadhafi's planes got shot down and their bases bombed. But that wasn't enough. It turned out that we have escalated the violence by using Tomahawk missiles and relentless bomb runs against Gadhafi's troops and tanks on the ground. Now, there are even talks among Obama's people of arming those rebels. And that means, we will have to send military trainers there to show to those rebels how to use those weapons of war we are going to give them. That means boots on the ground ... soldiers. That's how the war in That war lasted for two decades and killed 58,195 And, there was not even any oil there. THE POWER TO DECLARE WAR: As we all know, President Obama was a professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard in the early days of his brilliant career. And, we all know, too, that Obama, "the commander-in chief" of The Constitution also said that no "state shall engage in war, unless ACTUALLY INVADED, or in such "IMMINENT DANGER as will not admit of delay ... WITHOUT the consent of Congress." In other words, Congress gets to decide ... NOT President Obama. B ut did Obama seek the consent of U.S. Congress to bomb But, did he ask the consent of our I think he's an arrogant man to bypass the consent of the American people. Even George W. Bush, in 2002, who exuded the arrogance of a Mr. Obama said that what he's waging now in When warplanes are used to shoot down the enemy's planes and bomb their military bases and enemy troops and their military hardware, what do you call that? When missiles are launched from warships – expensive, sophisticated missiles that cost a million-dollar each – at a sovereign country, what do you call that? When you scream and bad-mouth and belittle a leader of a sovereign country, and telling him "you've got to go or else," what do you call that? When you set another country aflame, what do you call that? WTF! That's war! A bloody, frigging war! And we, Americans are in it! Obama put us in it! JJ
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