Why is Obama in Rio when he's starting a war in Libya!?! He should really be at home polishing that peace prize. -- Adam Kokesh
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030803149.html
"The President does not have the power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation." -- Sen. Barack Obama speaking about George Bush's military actions in Iraq
OBAMA: 'Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are answering the calls of a threatened people. And we are acting in the interests of the United States and the world'...
BUSH: 'American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger
"I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war."
"Whether the U.S. takes military action is not for the UN alone to decide. There is a constitutional imperative in the United States with respect to deciding to commit our U.S. armed forces to war." -- Rep. Dennis Kucinich
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/03/kucinich-says-president-obama-needs-congressional-authorization-for-libya-no-fly-zone.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRjLs21DxEk#t=4m8s
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51595.html
Jake Tapper posted these Pentagon slides on Twitter:
http://www.defense.gov/news/PAO_DJS_Slides_19Mar11_v3.pdf
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-dean-of-liberal-interventionism-on-libya/
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/libya-war-without-policy/
http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2011/03/intervention-an-appeal-for-evidence.html
http://volokh.com/2011/03/20/does-the-libya-intervention-require-congressional-authorization/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/arab-league-condemns-broad-bombing-campaign-in-libya/2011/03/20/AB1pSg1_story.html
(Jake Tapper now calling this a "Coalition of the Chilling" via Twitter)
Jack Hunter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0veajMpn7-Q
(disclosure: I haven't seen it, and I'm generally "
not a fan" of Jack Hunter. I
have, however, seen this YouTube vid posted by friends of several political stripes.)
Posted by John Papola via Facebook:
"Mr. Moore gets it right. Too bad his cognitive dissonance prevents him from understanding that it is the SAME GOVERNMENT which lets him down so often which would also be in charge of his celebrated healthcare and social programs. Time to connect the dots, Mikey. You’ve had enough time to figure this out for yourself."
http://thehill.com/blogs/twitter-room/other-news/150857-michael-moore-rips-obama-over-libya-
Bret Randall (via Facebook)
Compare US Globocop foreign policy with Chinese, non-intervention foreign policy (e.g., the original US foreign policy): China doesn't spend a single yuan, nobody burns China's flag, terrorists don't target Chinese interests, and China gets... all of the benefit of stable petroleum prices on the world market. No wonder China is sitting on trillions in national surplus--they have beaten us at our own policy. The grant of war powers to Congress was deliberate--it should not happen unless Congress agrees that our national defense is at risk.
Bret Randall (via Facebook)
Thank you Mr. Preble: "we've frightened ourselves" into spending ONE HALF of the entire world defense budget....in the name of nation building...a fool's errand...Agreed: It's time to completely re-think our military: policy, purpose, scope, mission, etc.
http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=plr&sei-redir=1
"Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition." -- Ron Paul
"Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives..." – Ron Paul
Update1:
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/03/20/libyas-slippery-slope/ (note: Have not read)
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/03/at_the_end_of_last.php
http://www.fff.org/freedom/0695e.asp
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/03/the-imperial-president.html
http://volokh.com/2011/03/21/eric-posner-guest-blogging-about-executive-unbound-after-the-madisonian-republic/
Update2:
http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Obama_Letter_Libya_Congress.pdf
Jake Tapper, via Twitter: Letter from POTUS to Congress about Libya: 'While You Were Out'...
Update3:
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-03-20/news/29148083_1_gaddafi-libyan-capital-surface-to-air-missiles
http://amash.house.gov/press-release/amash-halt-us-air-strikes-libya
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/150907-nader-obama-should-be-impeached-for-war-crimes
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/151029-white-house-defends-obamas-authority-to-launch-strikes-in-libya
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/151041-key-dem-attacks-on-libya-are-because-of-oil
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/151137-dem-majority-whip-support-obama-but-operation-must-stay-limited
http://reason.com/archives/2011/03/10/stay-out-of-libya
http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/21/dissent-on-libya
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/world/africa/22libya.html?_r=2&hp
Update4:
Radley Balko: "Washington, D.C.'s chief exports? Lies and war. Good post by Doug Mataconis on the latest example of both."
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/white-house-now-says-goal-in-libya-is-regime-change-installing-a-democratic-system/
America's freedom packages
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/mon-march-21-2011-sarah-vowell
Could Obama be Impeached over Libya? Let's ask Biden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adpa5kYUhCA
"Obama's actions in Libya are, or were, rather, grounds for impeachment according to Joe Biden. It's amazing what a few years and a promotion can do to someone's interpretation of the law." -- Demitri Karageorgos, June 01, 2001, on
this Facebook post
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/patrick-henry-and-mohammed-nabbous/
Andrew Napolitano (2011:Mar.??). "The Plain Truth on Wars of Intervention," FreedomWatch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7BDrbQ8NqQ
Update5:
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/headline/the-militarization-of-compassion/
http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/24/the-unasked-question-in-libya
http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/23/rieff-on-liberal-interventioni
http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/24/does-obamas-war-on-libya-viola
http://reason.com/archives/2011/03/23/obamas-war-of-choice
http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/22/candidate-obama-says-president
http://reason.com/archives/2011/03/24/obamas-fatal-attraction-to-war
http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/23/one-advantage-of-blind-partisa
http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/23/a-worthwhile-intervention-with
http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/23/new-at-reason-david-harsanyi-o
http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/22/war-on-libya-now-how-much-woul
http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/22/dont-mention-the-war-in-libya
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-25/libya-war-congress-white-house-have-war-of-words
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/24/here-we-go-again/
Update6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcyuXNxZIvk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74wui7bBFec
http://reason.com/blog/2011/01/20/reasontv-what-happened-to-the
http://www.warpower.us/index.htm
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1-Opinion/245-congress-should-immediately-terminate-the-2001-aumf.html
http://reason.com/archives/2011/03/09/to-the-shores-of-tripoli
http://reason.com/archives/2011/03/29/obamas-doctrine-of-pre-emptive
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/29/exceptionalism/index.html
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/03/29/us_obama_libya_fact_check/index.html
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/03/29/libya_gadhafi_sirte_rebels/index.html
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/03/28/obama_speech/index.html
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-legitimacy-of-the-libyan-war/
http://opiniojuris.org/2011/03/23/the-constitution-and-libya/
http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2011/03/is-military-action-in-libya.html
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/03/21/congress_war_powers_the_president
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2011/why_libya_2011_is_not_iraq_2003_46854
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/af_libya
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/22/libya/index.html
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/19/libya/index.html
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/18/libya/index.html
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/16/various_matters/index.html
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/17/clarridge/index.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-karel-bouley/obama-on-libya-mission-ac_b_842257.html
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/03/rebel-yell.html
http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/30/this-post-wont-make-sense-to-e
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/29/134946001/the-nation-obama-fails-to-explain-an-unjust-war
http://www.facebook.com/JakeTapperABC/posts/10150150507133910
"Source: POTUS signed a secret presidential finding authorizing covert operations to “aid the effort” in Libya"
http://www.facebook.com/JakeTapperABC/posts/10150150507133910
Update6:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-30/al-qaedas-libya-pilgrimage/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/29/1000-freelance-jihadists-join-libyan-rebels/
Update7:
http://cafehayek.com/2010/05/of-all-the-things-to-romanticize-the-worst-is-war.html
http://original.antiwar.com/henderson/2008/05/27/the-fight-for-memorial-day/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-libya-cia-is-gathering-intelligence-on-rebels/2011/03/30/AFLyb25B_story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXDZ2AogetA
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/obamas-false-premises-for-war/73260/
http://reason.com/blog/2011/01/20/reasontv-what-happened-to-the
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/missing-in-action-the-antiwar-movement/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74wui7bBFec
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/03/constitutional-law-professor-nobel-peace-prize-winner-contemplate
Update8:
http://reason.com/archives/2011/04/05/the-arab-spring
Update9:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13184594
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-fein/a-choice-between-honor-an_b_852907.html
http://reason.com/archives/2011/04/25/unwelcome-surprises-in-libya
Update10:
http://www.tomwoods.com/blog/mark-levin-wrong-on-war-powers/
Update11:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/death-of-the-war-powers-act/2011/05/17/AF3Jh35G_story.html
Update12:
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/164445-shermans-war-powers-act-amendment-accepted-by-house
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/06/03/House-to-vote-on-US-role-in-Libya/UPI-33991307089800/
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/06/congress_white_house_showdown_on_war_powers_act.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/03/981572/-Today-in-Congress
http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/06/02/boehner-gop-crafts-legislation-to-allow-continuation-of-us-mission-in-libya/
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/speaker-boehner-crafting-libya-resolution-to-derail-kucinichs-anti-war-bill.php
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/06/house-passes-john-boehners-modest-libya-resolution-defeats-dennis-kucinichs-measure-to-withdraw-troo.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/03-6
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/party-lines-blur-as-house-debates-kucinich-boehner-libya-resolutions/2011/06/03/AGAAS7HH_blog.html
http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/02/a-war-fit-for-a-king
Update13:
http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-johnson-gw-law-professor-just-filed-a-legal-challenge-to-us-involvement-in-libya-2011-6
http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/16/reason-writers-around-town-shi
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/06/16/061611-opinions-column-libya-dalmia-1-3/ 