Military option in Libya?

[ERNO]

With the passage of the UN Resolution of 2005?: Ready2Protect; gives the Obama administration absolute authority to protect civilians from a despotic dictator intent on wiping out the civilian population; with immediate military retribution.

[Hoosier]

With the passage of the UN Resolution of 2005?: Ready2Protect; gives the Obama administration absolute authority to protect civilians from a despotic dictator intent on wiping out the civilian population; with immediate military retribution.

Uh, not quite. The U.N. doesn't give the President the power to conduct a war. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 does. He has two days to inform Congress, and 60 days to seek approval. The original War Powers Act restricted the power to declare war (by the U.S.) to Congress. However if I'm not mistaken in every instance Congress in turn passed another law to authorize the President for that particular instance.

U.N. approval may prevent it from being a War Crime, but let's face it, only losers need to worry about being convicted of a war crime. If you don't lose the war, you get to write the history, problem solved.

H.

[Mtn.man]

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