WN: "Overwhelming disapproval" from Americans for Syria strik

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It's "an uphill slog" for President Obama to get enough lawmakers on board to authorize his request for military intervention in Syria, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said Sunday on "Face the Nation," just days before Congress is expected to vote on the resolution.

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It's "an uphill slog" for President Obama to get enough lawmakers on board to authorize his request for military intervention in Syria, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said Sunday on "Face the Nation," just days before Congress is expected to vote on the resolution.

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"The US government is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1966)

 

It makes no difference how much or how little support Mr. Obama will gather among lawmakers.  The war will go on simply because the Pentagon and the intelligence community wants it to go on.   Neither the American people, their elected representatives, nor protests of the international community will stop it.

 

The obsolete constitution demands that congress approve acts of war, but a declaration of war has not been forthcoming from that group since Dec. 8, 1941.  Every single war since that time has been illegal.

 

In 1947 the National Security Act was passed.  In effect it transferred war making power from congress to the president.   It also established the CIA (coincidence?).  Such power was used to engage in the Korean War and the Viet Nam war.  

 

In 1973 the War Powers Act was passed by congress in an impotent attempt to restrict POTUS to simply reporting his actions to congress.  That didn't work very well either.   Numerous military actions were conducted without its use - chief being the invasion of Panama, the abduction of its leader Noreiga (whose real crime was refusal to dance to Washington's tune) as well as the formation and deployment of the Nicaraguan Contras.  

 

All illegal by our own law, but all deployed according to the whim of the military and intelligence community.  In fact, it was the involvement of the CIA in Nicaragua in 1980 and its eventual coupling with the financial power of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that has directly resulted in the oil wars of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries.   Arab Spring is nothing less than 'controlled chaos' orchestrated by the intelligence communities of France, UK & US.   The current Syrian war is an extension of that campaign.

 

During his first term in office POTUS Obama violated the terms of the 1973 War Powers Act on two separate occasions.(*)

 

POTUS is little more than a political figurehead at this point.  The Pentagon and the intelligence community rule today.  The invasion of 5 countries during Obama's first term in office went unnoticed and without significant internal political response.

 

What makes the reader think the American military needs anybody's permission to invade Syria today?   If you think they do, you're dreaming.  We live in a democracy no more.  At present the United States is a fascist police state.  Approach issues and politics with that fact in mind and everything will become crystal clear to you.

 

IF GOD DOES NOT JUDGE AMERICA HE WILL HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH.

 

and that's just me, hollering from the choir loft...

(*)

June 15, 2009

POTUS Obama violates the War Powers act by refusing to notify congress of US participation in the Libyan campaign.  It was also a violation of Article I Section 8 of the Constitution.

 

October 20, 2009 

President Obama violates the 1973 War Powers Resolution for the second time.  He refuses to request, report or seek authorization for US troops deployed to 

Uganda, Congo, Central African Republic & Southern Sudan to counter Lord's Resistance Army & Joseph Kony.  The US invades 4, count 'em 4 countries without so much as a 'by your leave' to congress.  (3,100 - 4,100 troops deployed there at present level).   It was also a violation of Article I Section 8 of the Constitution.

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It's "an uphill slog" for President Obama to get enough lawmakers on board to authorize his request for military intervention in Syria, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said Sunday on "Face the Nation," just days before Congress is expected to vote on the resolution.

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I am just amazed at how little the media is defending the president.  In every other situation, they shielded the president from criticism and constantly ran interference for the administration in years past especially during his  first election.  

 

People don't want to see their sons and daughters killed to save someone else's kids.  Americans that have been fortunate to have sons and daughters that survived Iraq and Afghanistan, are not willing to see their children sent back over to the middle east to risk getting killed in this conflict.

[Ingrid]

I am proud of the consistancy the liberals are showing here.   We were against going into the Bush wars and we are against any Obama wars.