Anti-war Barack Obama has become pro-war President Obama, and has done so at the expense of America’s national security as well as the Constitution. America now finds itself engaged in the Libyan War for well over important 60 and 90 day benchmarks, which is in clear violation of the 1973 War Powers Act. That resolution was passed by Congress in response to President Nixon’s secret bombing campaigns during the Vietnam War, and was specifically meant to limit the President’s ability to start wars on a whim. Congress essentially asserted its own authority to have a say in when and where wars are to be started.
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