In Letter to President Obama, Boehner Seeks Answers to “Fundamental Questions” About Libyan Conflict

I fail to see how providing the humanitarian aid of preventing an air force from massacreing their own people, is an act of war, especially when done with a U.N. sanction.

Boehner shouldn’t hold his breath waiting for a response. Obama and his regime simply ignore whatever they want to ignore. Just look at the Florida ruling on healthcare.

Lydia | Mar 23, 2011 5:15:57 PM
…and Bush was liberating the Iraqi people and keeping Saddam from developing nucular weapons! (No he wasn’t, but you sound more like him every day. Bush III)

Posted by: Lydia | Mar 23, 2011 5:15:57 PM
Act – to do something; to carry out a particular function; to produce an effect.
War – armed conflict between nations or
factions; any conflict or struggle.
Sanction – authoritative permission or approval; action by a state or states to force another state to comply with an obligation.
Let’s see…
Conflict or struggle? Check. To carry out a particular function/produce an effect? Check. Authorization of force? Check. Yep…sounds like a sanctioned act of war to me. Doesn’t matter what the reason is, Lydia, war is war.

“Like the coalition that opposed Iraqi aggression, we should expect future coalitions to be “ad hoc assemblies”, often not lasting beyond the crisis being confronted, and in many cases carrying only general agreement over the objectives to be accomplished.”
This is a quote from the ultimate Neo-con architect of GW Bush’s Iraq War strategies, Paul Wolfowitz.
Just a frame of reference for exactly how far to the right the Republican party has fallen. It helps explain why President Obama’s critics sound so shrill. The likes of Paul Wolfowitz and Scooter Libby would be considered “moderates” by today’s conservative talking heads and Rodeo Clowns.
Meanwhile, Speaker Boehner, Just exactly what is happening with the JOBS focus you promised?

And for her encore, Lydia will now argue (with a straight face) that the Korean War was a Korean Conflict.

There would never have been bipartisan support for one simple reason – the moment Obama went to the Republicans saying he was For a no-fly zone, they would Immediately scream that there could Not be a no-fly zone. They simply will not agree with him on anything. See story about Gingrich about face to prove my point.

Bipartisan support?! By the time he lined up bipartisan support there might not have been a Libyan rebel left alive.
Posted by: Skip | Mar 23, 2011 6:13:57 PM
So, forget the Constitution, don’t ask Congress, and man the torpedoes because the Arabs alledgedly asked him to? And he didn’t even ask them to help fund it???

How can Obama have any coalition when he has divided his own nation?
Are we supposed to believe that Obama is taking orders from the UN in how to conduct military operations?
If so, how can we trust Obama knowing that he has so effortlessly given the UN control of US military forces?
Who has command of UN operations in Libya?
What is Obama’s definition of the word ‘must’, as in ‘must go’?
Is Obama playing political, self-serving games in his description of the Libyan war?
Does Obama expect Libya to go to war with the US, and if not, why not?
These are only some of the impolite but important questions that Boehner cannot ask to the President’s face. Surely the press can ask them for us all?

Why are 49% of Democrats opposed to the intervention in Libya?

Based on a lot of the comments I see on this blog, I didn’t know that America had so many right wing nuts. God help us! Quit being so hateful!!! You didn’t do that with GWB!

Posted by: martin | Mar 23, 2011 11:28:30 PM
So your excuse is Bush did it too? And what if Bush just happened to be the worst president in U.S. history? A good person to imitate? Maybe they’ll start filling the teleprompter with Bush-isms – joy.
Obama is Bush III, and America is in so much trouble.

wheresmymoney | Mar 23, 2011 7:06:36 PM posted: “Obama has been all over the board on the ‘objectives to be accomplished’.”
On September 11, a senior policy official’s notes show Sec Def Rumsfeld said, “Need to move swiftly — Near term target needs — go massive — sweep it all up. Things related and not.”
Then there was Paul Wolfowitz telling Congress: “There’s a lot of money to pay for this. It doesn’t have to be U.S. taxpayer money. We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.”
So I’m curious. Are you hyper-critical of President Obama’s No Fly “objectives” because:
a) War objectives change – such as WMD morphing into “nation building” lasting a decade and bleeding Trillions from our nation?
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b) This decision sets a precedent by shifting too much authority away from Congress toward the UN or into the US President’s hands?
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c) You loathe President Obama so much that nothing he does can ever be accepted?
And by the way, even though Republicans only control one majority vote out of three (which is still the minority)” – that does not prohibit them from introducing JOBS related bills other than continued tax cuts. They have nothing to offer – these public servants’ strategy is do-nothing regardless of how it damages citizens’ lives or our nation’s future. Examples of the politically elite – intellectually and morally bankrupt, bought and sold.

Fascist Hyena, where did you get the idea that 49% of Dems are opposed to helping Libyan civilians with a no-fly zone?
The Gallup poll I found showed 49% of Americans are for it, 39% were against it and 16% were undecided on March 21.
The same poll showed 51% of Dems were for it, and 34% against it.
I hope you aren’t spreading falsehoods. It makes for a pretty weak arguement.

Chuck | Mar 24, 2011 2:19:46 PM posted: “Barack Obama promised that if elected he would create 3.5 million green jobs by the end of 2010 through new economic policies. WHERE ARE THE JOBS?!?!?!”
The White House Council of Economic Advisors estimates the stimulus added 2.5 million to 3.6 million jobs to the economy. According to the conclusion of the Recovery Act Fourth Quarterly Report:
“Our analysis indicates that the Recovery Act has played a key role in the turnaround of the economy that has been occurring over the past year. Real GDP reached its low point in the second quarter of 2009 and has been growing solidly since then, in large part because of the tax cuts and spending increases included in the Act. Employment, after falling dramatically, has begun to grow again. Indeed, payroll employment (neglecting temporary Census workers) has risen for six consecutive months. As of the second quarter of 2010, we estimate that the Recovery Act has raised employment by 2.5 to 3.6 million relative to what it otherwise would have been.”
“As we have emphasized, measuring what a policy action has contributed to growth and employment is inherently difficult because we do not observe what would have occurred without the policy…a wide range of private and government analysts concur with our estimates adds a reassuring check on our analysis.”
If you want to see an update for completion of Stimulus spending as of 4th Quarter 2010 (tracked by ProPublia) much of the stimulus spending was still “in process” at those “green jobs” via the Department of Energy; the agency’s programs were tied up by an onslaught of applications + regulations regarding prevailing wages, American-made materials, increasing electricity rates and environmental clearances.
Now, I don’t expect you to agree with ANY of this data – Conservatives seem to deny that anything has improved at all.
But this Administration can at least point to an ongoing effort to build jobs and grow our economy. So again – what legislation has Mr. Boehner, who clearly positioned JOBS as a priority, promoted to create new American JOBS?

Coward that you are Mr. Boehner…you send a letter and yet did not have the courage to stand up and ask some questions. What this president did has been done before by other presidents …oh,,,,I guess it was o.k. because they were white? I am so sick of the disrespect this president gets from day one. He won an election…he didn’t just morph into the position. And, he has kept us out of a recession …at least give him respect for something.

“I am so sick of the disrespect this president gets from day one. He won an election…he didn’t just morph into the position. And, he has kept us out of a recession …at least give him respect for something.”
Posted by: talmag | Mar 24, 2011 5:04:55 PM
Americans are free to think what they want about Obama. Respect is earned. Obama has done nothing to earn it. And you’re right. We’re not in a recession any longer. It’s a depression.
Enjoy the Kinetic Military Action Obama has now gotten us into. He has now recklessly gotten us into a third war while continuing to execute illegal drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, which he initiated in January 2009. Didn’t he campaign on less war, not more? Liberals never would have tolerated this if Bush had done it. Why aren’t they protesting?

Chuck | Mar 24, 2011 4:13:38 PM posted: “If there’s a real recovery happening they would definitely be feeling it.”
According to whom? google any comparison charts of previous recessions – history shows the steeper they are, the longer they take to recover employment. No way we can “feel recovery” as we did after previous milder downturns.
And, analysis of U.S. counties by the Federal Reserve Bank (Economic Letter January 18, 2011) shows that slower job growth after such a steep Recession is closely related to high levels of household debt accumulated during the housing boom.
The Federal Reserve on the rich vs. poor recovery: “Counties where household debt grew moderately from 2002 to 2006 have seen a moderation of employment losses and a robust recovery in durable consumption and residential investment. By contrast, counties that experienced large increases in household debt during the boom have been mired in a severe recessionary environment even after the official end of the recession.”
Basically, the housing boom and a decade of upper income tax advantages opened up a huge divide opened up a huge divide between rich and poor. The wealthy have recovered from the recession nicely, thank you very much. But the working class and the poor have not.
“There is no data you can provide that shows life is getting better for the increasing number of working poor struggling to survive.” But there is data that luxury goods manufacturers are seeing a dramatic spike in recent demand. According to Dior, the high-couture company, about the recovery: “There was a period when our rich clients had much cash at their disposal but did not wish to spend it. Now, this is over”.
And btw Chuck – Just exactly what IS the Republican strategy to create JOBS? Just wait? Eight years of cutting regulations and taxes created a pathetic 3 million new jobs – even during the housing boom. And how exactly do you KNOW that the regulations imposed on those who are applying for Government Stimulus Money grants are “Nonsense”? You would be HOWLING if one penny was shown to be misspent on a bridge to nowhere.

Chuck you have got to staff of the booze. Obama has not killed more men than Bush…it is not possible…Bush has had 8 years to kill them and if we put them all side by side..it would be even. I still don’t hear anything from you about being dragged into a war with lies and false claims. How can you justify this and not justify what Obama is doing. He kept his promise…we have turned the war over to Nato and we are there as a back up in just a few days…not eight years. And he is not standing up and saying that we won.