FLASHBACK: Obama launches 2,800 strikes on Iraq, Syria without congressional approval

Obama's legal rationale for Isis strikes: shoot first, ask Congress later
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In case the Washington Times pulls the article.
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Don't forget Egypt and Libya..

Obama's handywork


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The Perils of Obama's Latest Undeclared War
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Without Congressional permission, public debate, or any attempt to rally the American public’s support, President Obama has ordered U.S. ground troops to a war zone, his most flagrantly unconstitutional war-making since he unlawfully helped to overthrow Muammar al-Qaddafi. “The United States is set to deploy troops on the ground in Syria for the first time to advise and assist rebel forces combating ISIS,” CNN reports. “The deployment of U.S. Special Operations forces is the most significant escalation of the American military campaign against ISIS to date.”




Obama’s legal rationale: shoot first, ask Congress later
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Obama breaks from precedent in asking Congress for approval to strike Syria
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President Obama’s surprise decision to seek congressional blessing to strike Syria is a sharp break from when he committed the U.S. to NATO’s 2011 military intervention in Libya.

It reversed apparent plans for an imminent strike without Capitol Hill approval and represented a departure from the policies of several predecessors, who routinely launched military strikes without lawmakers' blessing.

Obama ready to strike at Islamic State militants in Syria, he tells policy experts

Here's what the president can do, with or without Congress.
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Just going over some old articles, making sure they are arc---hived.

It was illegal then and it's illegal now.

Staggering death toll for Obama's war in Syria

470,000


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Number of Gi's killed in WW2, 400,000,

70,00 less than Obama killed in Syria


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Trump can:
Cure Cancer
Create world peace
Give sight to the blind
Give mobility to the paralyzed

And he would still ALWAYS be wrong in the eyes of a Communist liberal.

Thats because they are liars and hypocrites, but that is

not the worst part, Its their hidden agenda that will bring mankind to the brink.

I am paying attention Jake. I don't want to fill this up with quotes.

I am arc----hiving what is being posted in this thread.

Duh..he is communist as was the entirety of the government (and still is). The only kink in the current works is a non communist as president and the 100+ million with guns who elected him. Just a minor kink.

Iraq vet in Congress: Syria strike 'serious mistake'
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If ever there were a sign President Obama faces an uphill battle with Congress over Syria, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's statement Monday is a big, unmistakable warning.

Obama 86’d the War Powers Resolution
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Eighty-six — that’s how many days have passed without President Barack Obama seeking congressional approval for his actions in Iraq, despite a decades-old law that forbids presidents from waiting so long to get lawmakers’ sign-off on military engagements. Nevertheless, Obama says he doesn’t need Congress’s go-ahead, and that’s just fine with most of Capitol Hill. .

Obama’s Forever War Starts Now
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The White House’s proposed legal authorization for a war against the Islamic State may haunt U.S. foreign policy for years to come.

Obama Says He Doesn't Need Congress' Permission to Strike Syria, So Why is He Asking for It?
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The president is touting the decision as a win for democracy, but there's a political payoff as well.

President Obama said Saturday he'll go to Congress for approval before launching a strike against Syria, but he also made it clear that he doesn't believe he needs anyone else's permission.

"While I believe I have the authority to carry out this military action without specific congressional authorization, I know that the country will be stronger ... and our actions will be even more effective" if the strike is authorized by Congress, Obama said Saturday in a televised address from the Rose Garden.

Why Obama’s Libya strikes don’t require congressional approval
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At the Last Minute, Obama Alone Made Call to Seek Congressional Approval
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Change in President's Thinking Confounded White House Insiders

Obama's Breathtaking Expansion of a President's Power To Make War
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For Immediate Release
August 31, 2013
Statement by the President on Syria
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Yet, while I believe I have the authority to carry out this military action without specific congressional authorization, I know that the country will be stronger if we take this course, and our actions will be even more effective. We should have this debate, because the issues are too big for business as usual. And this morning, John Boehner, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell agreed that this is the right thing to do for our democracy.

Obama Is Ignoring the Law in Libya, And Congress Doesn't Care
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Can the president wage a drone war without congressional approval? The Obama administration says yes.
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Can the president of the United States wage war without congressional approval, as long as he uses drones to do the killing?

The Obama administration seems to think the answer is yes.

Two weeks ago, in a report to Congress, the administration claimed that

[C]urrent U.S. military operations in Libya are consistent with the War Powers Resolution and do not under that law require further congressional authorization, because U.S. military operations are distinct from the kind of “hostilities” contemplated by the Resolution’s 60 day termination provision. … U.S. operations do not involve sustained fighting or active exchanges of fire with hostile forces, nor do they involve the presence of U.S. ground troops, U.S. casualties or a serious threat thereof, or any significant chance of escalation into a conflict characterized by those factors.

One reason why U.S. operations don’t involve “sustained fighting,” “active exchanges of fire,” or a “serious threat” of U.S. casualties is that we’re using drones. As the report noted, “American strikes are limited to the suppression of enemy air defense and occasional strikes by unmanned Predator UAVs against a specific set of targets.” Libyan ground forces can’t exchange fire with machines that target them from 15,000 feet. And they can’t kill pilots who aren’t there.

How Barack Obama is expanding presidential power — and what it means for the future
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It was a charge that, a few short years before, would have sounded perfectly natural coming from Senator Barack Obama. "I taught constitutional law for 10 years," Obama said in March 2008. "I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm president of the United States of America."

But interviews with academic, legal, and policy experts make clear Obama has done little to roll back Bush's expansion of executive power — and that, instead, he's added a few innovations of his own. "The consensus is that he's not the disruptor in terms of presidential power that he purported to be," says Mitchel Sollenberger, a political scientist at the University of Michigan. "Instead, he's largely continued consolidating and strengthening it."

Many of Obama's own controversial contributions cluster around one main theme: waiving, modifying, or refusing to enforce key provisions in laws dealing with domestic policy. And as he weighs a new executive action on immigration, he seems set to go further yet. In doing so, he'll set new precedents that future presidents can cite for even more expansive action. As Congressional dysfunction keeps getting worse and worse, presidents will keep filling the policymaking vacuum left by the legislative branch — and Congress won't be able to stop them.

Obama’s Imperial Presidency Now Is Trump’s
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UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
Liberals let the Obama presidency’s expanded powers go virtually unchecked. Now Trump gets to enjoy them.

For nearly eight years, President Obama massively expanded his authority on national security issues: on the prosecution of whistleblowers, secret surveillance courts, wars without congressional authorization, and drone campaigns without public oversight. During this time the left, with the exception of some civil liberties groups, remained largely silent.

But now this entire apparatus is being handed over to Donald Trump, a president with a penchant for authoritarianism, who will no doubt point to Obama as precedent to justify the continuation, and perhaps broadening, of these national security excesses.

Obama didn't need congressional approval. He wasn't waging war against another government but a militia group.

An Executive Unbound: The Obama Administration’s Unilateral Actions
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“We can’t wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job. Where they won’t act, I will.”

—President Barack Obama

He's ALSO a war criminal!!

They're all NWO pawns for their masters! Including the one who swears up and down he is not! Jeez...

Why Is Obama Still Killing Children?
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...Obama has tried to disguise his illegal drone program with the patina of legal legitimacy. Perhaps the most horrifying aspect of the drone program — aside from the serial child killing — is the normalization by the U.S. of extrajudicial assassination as an accepted practice under a tortured interpretation of constitutional due process and International law...