Remember that thing that Obama said would be a mistake just a few months ago?
Now, just as there are those who have argued against intervention in Libya, there are others who have suggested that we broaden our military mission beyond the task of protecting the Libyan people, and do whatever it takes to bring down Gaddafi and usher in a new government.
Of course, there is no question that Libya – and the world – will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
Apparently this line of thinking is so, like, March 28. Who can ever remember back that far?
(CNN) — A U.N. resolution justifies the targeting of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a senior NATO military official with operational knowledge of the Libya mission told CNN Thursday.
NATO has been ramping up pressure on the regime, employing helicopters last weekend for the first time against Gadhafi’s military vehicles, equipment and forces. Explosions are heard often in Tripoli, evidence of allied air strikes.
Doesn’t President Obama owe the American people an explanation as to why he was so completely WRONG just 70 days ago? How ’bout Congress? Does he owe them an explanation?
Oh, by the way. Did you know that we are bombing Yemen now too with no plan or explanation?
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials.
We are still in Iraq. He intensified the war in Afghanistan. He declared a private war in Libya. And now he has declared a secret war in Yemen. And oh yeah, Gitmo is still open and he just signed the renewed Patriot Act.
Looking back at the invasion of Iraq, President Bush’s blunder is even more apparent. Apparently if he never bothered to justify himself with WMDs and stuff, nobody would have cared.
Instead of “Mission Accomplished,” Bush should have said “What Mission?”
Hope, change, and bombs.
June 10, 2011 at 5:58 am
Don't forget Syria!
June 10, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Feeling poetic today, so I if may:
War Powers Clause. Constitution.
Presidential Oath. Treason.
Who will take on the one?
Biden? Boehner? Pelosi?
SCOTUS? Joint Chiefs?
Pray tell for I must know,
this is serious business and Obama must go.
June 10, 2011 at 3:22 pm
America holds the record for killing people outside of its own borders and Obama is doing his part to make sure that record will never be threatened.
There is a cost to being the world's only Super Power and that cost is accounted in red; the color that symbolises the accumulated corpses and the national debt.
However, Big Bullet always achieves a black bottom line and thus always has plenty of money to pay for the political campaigns for those who will keep their bottom line in the black.
It takes a lot of red to keep Big Bullet in the black but as my Home State POTUS used to like to say; The business of America is business.
June 10, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Thank you so many non "one issue voter Catholics" who voted for this joke because "he will not start any wars…"
Thank you, and you are in my prayers.
June 10, 2011 at 7:02 pm
And then there's the war we have abandoned on our Southern Border to drug cartels. Glenn Beck's maps of the places that are on fire come to mind.
June 11, 2011 at 10:26 pm
I don't know whether it is the US in all these wars or the UN or NATO or the techno-industrial-military complex. It seems clear to me that the only real interest the federal government has in regard to terrorism is to use it as a justification for increased domestic policing and wars abroad. But in all things, the underground motto for all Americans ought to be: Your Government Hates You. That's kind of a corollary to the official one.