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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1300329, member: 22143&quot;]Part 2:</p><p>The intent by the framers of the Constitution was to prevent the USA from entering into military actions that had nothing to do with the defense of the USA.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thus the Congress was given the power to declare war but the President was made commander in chief.&nbsp; Furthermore the Congress has the only authority to fund the military.&nbsp;&nbsp; Later more specifics were added to this which placed requirements on the President to get congress&#039;s permission within a certain time period after committing troops or they had to be withdrawn.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Thus, the attack on Libya was Unconstitutional IMO.&nbsp; Libya presented no danger to the USA, no war was declared, Congress took no votes, and Obama did not get Congress&#039;s permission.&nbsp; Yet there we are spending 100s of millions of $s blowing up the place and killing people.&nbsp;&nbsp; The people in power, ignored the intent of the Constitution and instead weasel worded around it.&nbsp; i.e.&nbsp; No troops were committed from a technical perspective because advances in technology allow them to send in robots to do the work from remote control.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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