Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 1, 2011

During a classified briefing on Capitol Hill, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman of California that the administration would ignore any congressional effort intended to end, restrain, or limit the war in Libya.

The administration committed the government to war without congressional approval of any kind. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has publicly acknowledged that the war ? which was supposedly authorized by a UN Security Council resolution -- has nothing to do with defending the United States, or any American strategic interest of any kind.

Before being elected to their present positions, both President Obama and Vice President Biden candidly stated that it is an impeachable offense for a president to launch a foreign war without congressional approval. Perhaps this is why Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan has suggested that Congress should enact a resolution retroactively ?authorizing? the war weeks after it had begun.

By any rational measure, the war in Libya is an Orwellian exercise in unfettered, dictatorial power.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.