Our Hypocrite-in-Chief continues his Nobel Peace Prize winning ways by
starting another pointless and unconstitutional war, this time in
Libya. Oh, the neo-con crowd and all the other chicken hawks are
practically creaming their pants over yet another opportunity to kill
strangers and blow things up. It’s the same sickening litany of
nonsense we heard about Iraq and Afghanistan and all the other useless
hellholes where American soldiers have died and American money has been
squandered.
That preeminent jack wad, Barry McCaffrey, former general and ex-Drug
Czar (apparently he loves destroying innocent lives; perhaps he should
join Mr. and Mrs. Prez in their anti-bullying PSAs...), was asked if
these attacks on the Libyan military constituted a war. (See the transcript here.)
He said: “It couldn't be, otherwise the War Powers Act of 1973 would have been invoked.”
In other words, it’s not what actions are occurring that are important; it does not matter what reality indicates is happening; it is irrelevant if our military is engaging the military of a foreign nation, it not only is not a war, it couldn’t
be because we have not “invoked” the War Powers Act of 1973. So I guess
if we nuked every dictatorial cesspool in the world in one fell swoop,
we would not – could not – be at war as long as we did not “invoke”
this act. Jeez. What an idiotic tool (and I mean that in its multiple
shades) McCaffrey is.
And, of course, McCaffrey does not give even lip service to the FACT
that the Constitution says that only Congress can declare war. Any “War
Powers Act” is unconstitutional on the face it. Go screw yourself,
Barry.
