Charles Krauthammer, writing today at National Review Online, exposes Obama's duplicity in avoiding the 1973 War Powers Resolution. "He claimed exemption from the WPR on the grounds that America is not really engaged in 'hostilities' in Libya."
"To deploy an excuse so transparently ridiculous isn’t just a show of contempt for Congress and for the intelligence of the American people. It manages additionally to undermine the presidency’s own war-making prerogatives by implicitly conceding that if the Libya war really did involve hostilities, the president would indeed be subject to the WPR.
The worst of all possible worlds: Insult Congress, weaken the presidency. A neat trick."
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Who Takes Us to War? - Charles Krauthammer - National Review Online
