Hypocrisy Taken To Task
By Sen. Rand Paul, naturally, who blisters President Obama with a scathing indictment of his handling of the war in Libya. This from The Hill:
In a floor speech Wednesday, Paul introduced a motion to the Senate that would condemn Obama’s decision to attack military installations controlled by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi without authorization from the Congress.
“We are engaging in a third war at a time when our country is struggling under an enormous debt and involved in two other wars,” said Paul.
“While I am new here in the Senate, I am appalled that the Senate has abdicated its responsibility and that the Senate has not acted,” said Paul referring to the question of whether or not Obama should have sought approval.
Paul’s resolution would express the “sense of the Senate that the president does not have the power to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve actual or imminent threat to the nation.”
Paul’s resolution quotes a comment Obama made on the campaign trail in 2007 in which he said he believed the president could not authorize an attack without the permission of Congress.
“The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation,” Obama said in 2007.
“I will be very interested to see whether other senators support the candidate Barack Obama or now the hypocritical version that has become our president,” said Paul.
Paul obviously fails to understand that it’s not war we’re waging in Libya; it’s only kinetic military action. Whole different ballgame, you see.
Kinetic military action; not to be confused with war
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