At war

[trapdoor]

News reports this morning are reporting the White House says we are "at war" with ISIS.

Where did the White House acquire the authority to declare war? Even the Bush administration sought authorization from Congress.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

The War Powers Act and the same authorizations GWB used.

 

[trapdoor]

The War Powers Act and the same authorizations GWB used.

Are those authorizations still active (I'm not sure)? The war powers act does not allow the president to declare war.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Are those authorizations still active (I'm not sure)? The war powers act does not allow the president to declare war.

Obama is not "declaring war" despite your effort at semantical gymnastics. No more than GWB did.

Let's face it - it has been a long time since wars (military engagements - whatever words you wish to use) were begun with congressional declarations of war. I think WWII was the last one. Congress itself gave the president such a unilateral right with the War Powers Act and the various resolutions granting GWB the power to fight terrorism.

 

[trapdoor]

Well, no one but the zweite House has said we are at war.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Well, no one but the zweite House has said we are at war.

Idiotic reporters/GOP cultists badgered some White House guy until he used the word "war" to describe what would result from Obama's proposal.

Why? So idiotic people could start yammering about the congressional power to declare war, as if that has been the rule of law post-WWII.

We live amidst such dishonest idiocy.

 

[Fast Eddy]

Obama doesn't know what he is doing and is just bumbling through things. What he is doing will fail, God help us all.

 

[MrMike]

The Obama What House seems to be one confused place.

I doubt ISIS is very afraid of the threats of our Pansy President Tee Time.