[Peace-discuss] suing obama - ron paul

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

"Why I'm suing the Obama administration over Libya" - Ron Paul

There is no issue more serious than war. Wars result in the loss of life 
and property. Wars are also expensive and an enormous economic burden.

Our Founders understood that waging war is not something that should be 
taken lightly, which is why Article 1, Section 8 of the United States 
Constitution gives Congress — not the president — the authority to 
declare war. This was meant to be an important check on presidential 
power. The last thing the Founders wanted was an out-of-control 
executive branch engaging in unnecessary and unpopular wars without so 
much as a Congressional debate.

Unfortunately, that’s exactly the situation we have today in Libya.

That’s why I’ve joined several other members of Congress in a lawsuit 
against President Obama for engaging in military action in Libya without 
seeking the approval of Congress.

Of course, in 2007, then-Senator Obama spoke passionately about the need 
to go after the Bush administration for violating the War Powers Act — 
the very same thing he’s doing now. In fact, while speaking at DePaul 
University in October of 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama said the following:

“After Vietnam, Congress swore it would never again be duped into war, 
and even wrote a new law — the War Powers Act — to ensure it would not 
repeat its mistakes. But no law can force a Congress to stand up to the 
president. No law can make senators read the intelligence that showed 
the president was overstating the case for war. No law can give Congress 
a backbone if it refuses to stand up as the co-equal branch the 
Constitution made it.”

We are now taking Barack Obama’s past advice and standing up to the 
executive branch.

Of course, the War Powers Act is hardly an improvement on the U.S. 
Constitution because it does allow the president to go to war without 
the approval of Congress. But President Obama refuses to follow this law.

Read more: 
http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/16/why-im-suing-the-obama-administration-over-libya/#ixzz1PalaZ8kw

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