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Why no complaints about Clinton and Obama and Biden taking military action without authorization by Congress? Why this continuing double standard? The U.S. is an early negotiations with Iran, we don't know the final details, indeed, there may be no agreement. The murders of tens of thousands of Iranian citizens should not have happened, but they did. The Obama deal was a clear path to a nuclear weapon. While Trump pulled the U.S. out the deal remained with Iran and China and Russia and the U.K. and France and Germany.
Recall the original word applying to Congress was to "make" war but it was changed to "declare" war.
Ending a war is much harder than starting one, as Trump is now finding out.
Harken back when Congress approved the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force for those wars started under Bush.
My bad. That was meant for the poster below whose forgettery seems better than their memory.
Yes, certainly Obama authorized an attack against Libya. The date of CF is irrelevant, history didn't start on that day. Clinton launched a U.S. attack against Kosovo. Presidents make those decisions, they they have the power under the U.S. Constitution to do so.
UN Security Council Resolution 1973. Libya was a NATO operation. When action started, unlike Trump, Obama notified congress within 48 hrs to start the 60 day clock. He even addressed the nation. Something Trump didn't do either. Once the 60 day is up, it's up to Congress to act. In the case of Obama congress didn't act.
A resolution is not an operation. Obama consulted leadership in Congress, but it was Obama who authorized military action:
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov
Authorized as in what any president can do as long as they notify congress within 48 hours, then the 60 day clock kicks in where authorization is required. Congress didn't act either way.A resolution is not an operation. Obama consulted leadership in Congress, but it was Obama who authorized military action:
"It was not in our national interest to let that happen. I refused to let that happen. And so nine days ago, after consulting the bipartisan leadership of Congress, I authorized military action to stop the killing and enforce U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973."
Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Libya
National Defense University Washington, D.C. 7:31 P.M. EDT
