Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 20, 2011

In his recent letter to Congress defending the patently illegal and unconstitutional war in Libya, Barack Obama insisted that the War Powers Act of 1973 doesn?t apply because the U.S. is not engaged in ?hostilities? against Libya.

What this presumably means is that attacking a country with missiles and bombs, and providing air support to an insurgent army that was organized and equipped with Washington?s assistance, amounts to ?congenialities,? rather than hostilities. But such tortured semantic engineering can be expected from an administration that insists that it isn?t waging war, but rather engaging in ?kinetic military action? in Libya.

In that connection it?s useful to note that nine civilians ? including two small children ? were the most recent beneficiaries of the Obama Regime?s kinetic military congenialities.

Karl W. Eikenberry, the departing U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, used a public address to rebuke Afghan President Hamid Karzai for describing U.S. military forces as ?occupiers? of that country.

Through eyes heavy with unshed tears, Eikenberry described such talk as unbearably offensive. Soviet occupation officials doubtless made similar protests during their ten-year humanitarian errand in Afghanistan.

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