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Obama Suggests U.S. Involvement In Libya Limited, Support From Congress Welcome But Authority Not Needed

Friday, May 20, 2011


TheNation's JohnNichols explained that Obama's unilateral decision "was a violation of the provision in the founding document that requires the executive to attain authorizat­ion from Congress before launching military adventures abroad."  Put simply, as DanielLari­son concluded in an analysis last week, "the war was illegal from the start."

But even for those who chose to cling to the fiction that the presidenti­al war in Libya was authorized by the WPR, that fiction is now coming to a crashing end.  Friday will mark the 60th day of the war without Congress, and there are no plans for authorizat­ion to be provided.  By all appearance­s, the WhiteHouse isn't even bothering to pretend to seek one.  

http://www­.salon.com­/news/opin­ion/glenn_­greenwald/­2011/05/19­/libya/ind­ex.html
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