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Re: Trump sends a message to Senate Republicans ahead of his trial
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Originally Posted by Dog Man
No, sorry, you just made that up.
And it was Obama and Hillary that did not want to save it, they allowed it to turn into a slave state. Why is that OK with the left?
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-l...75R42E20110628
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote marked another round in the debate in Washington over who has the power to make war, sparked by the President Barack Obama’s decision to commit the United States to the Libya conflict in March without asking the U.S. Congress’ approval.
The committee voted 14-5 to approve the measure offered by Senator John Kerry, a Democrat, and Senator John McCain, a Republican, both supporters of the Libya intervention.
But the House of Representatives has already rejected a similar measure, reflecting the division in Congress over the issue and narrowing the chances that the Kerry-McCain resolution, which first has to be approved by the full Senate, will ever become law.
While the Obama administration would like Congress to express support for the Libya mission, it says it does not strictly need formal authorization by Congress. This is because the U.S. military role in the NATO-led Libya operations has been limited, not rising to the level of war or “hostilities” under U.S. law, U.S. officials say.
This legalistic position, which was explained again to the committee in detail earlier Tuesday by State Department lawyer Harold Koh, has angered or annoyed many in both parties in Congress -- even some of those who support the Libya action.
Before passing the resolution, the senators effectively repudiated the administration’s argument by adopting an amendment that said continuation of the Libya operations does require congressional authorization.
ALL THOSE WHO VOTED NO WERE REPUBLICANS
The United States and its NATO allies launched the U.N.-backed mission in March, aiming to prevent Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces from attacking civilians opposed to his rule. The mission, NATO-led since the end of March, now appears to have the unstated goal of driving Gaddafi from power.
The panel’s vote in favor of the resolution was a bipartisan 10 Democrats and four Republicans. All those who voted against the measure were Republicans, including the panel’s top Republican, Richard Lugar, who cited the U.S. debt and two other wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as reasons not to wage war in Libya.
“In light of these circumstances, the lack of U.S. vital interest in Libya, I do not believe that we should be intervening in a civil war there,” Lugar said.
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