FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 24, 2011
CONTACT: Genevieve Frye Rozansky
National Security Objectives Must be Defined
Washington, D.C. – Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, today voted against two legislative measures regarding U.S. military involvement in Libya. The first (H.J. Res. 68) would authorize the limited use of the United States Armed Forces in support of the NATO mission in Libya. The second (H.R. 2278) would limit the use of funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for United States Armed Forces in support of NATO Operation Unified Protector with respect to Libya.
“The President still has not made clear what national security objectives are being met by U.S. participation in the NATO mission or how we can justify spending hundreds of millions of dollars to fund our efforts there,” said Flake. “The time for debate over whether to authorize U.S. armed forces to engage in Libya was months ago, before the U.S. entered into the NATO operation.”
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That analysis should apply to our entire Mideast effort!
Flake’s gotta be lonely, being among the minority of people in Congress who actually believe the Constitution is there for a reason.
The War Powers Resolution is unconstitutional. It gives Congressional Powers to the President and Presidential Powers to Congress.
Doesn’t Flake stand for gays in the military? And support cap and trade. And he went back on his own term limit pledge.
Easiest Senate race in country if unchallenged.
Flake does not and has never supported cap & trade. He did once call the Democrats’ bluff by proposing a bill that would have eliminated Federal payroll taxes and instead charge an energy usage tax that would have been capped at the maximum payroll tax amount; this was in response to Democrat assertions that “this is not about revenue, it’s about protecting the environment!” Flake then gave them a bill that was revenue neutral by not bringing in more revenue than the existing payroll tax, but would still provide an economic incentive to business to reduce energy consumption. Needless to say, the Democrats refused to support it, because in truth they wanted MORE tax revenue.
The pathetic thing is that Ghaddafi is a decades-long declared enemy of the United States, and has financed numerous murderous terror attacks against Americans. The PAN AM bombing is not the only airliner that went down at Ghaddafi’s hands, the French UTA flight out of Chad on which the US Ambassador’s wife was killed was traced right back to Ghaddafi.
WHile Obama was playing golf and pretending his pastor of 20 years never went to Libya, as did Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan to cozy up to money bags Ghaddafi, he had nothing but a mealy mouthed CYA murmur to protest the release of the Lockerbie bomber mastermind from Scottish prison a release based on a patently phony excuse, while at the SAME TIME a court awarded 6 BILLION $$$ in damages AGAINST Ghaddafi for his ordering of the French UTA bombing. During that same year, Obama then approved hundreds of thosuands of dollars to a Ghaddafi “charity,” as IF the oil soaked, bloodstained Ghaddafis actually DO charity.
Given the number of genuine acts of war Ghaddafi has conducted against the USA, any POTUS really doesn’t need ANY fig leaf of cover to go into Libya and take out Ghaddafi. Sooooo. Whats’ the PROBLEM? It’s should have been a SIMPLE thing, but it’s dribs and drabs and here and there with no strategic vision whatsoever. What gives, then?
The ONLY thing that’s actually been accomplished amidst the smoke and rubble and great expense and waste of US miltary resources, is that Ghaddafi is still in power. And that makes Louis Farrakhan happy.
The American People DO have a right for an explanation and at this rate, an investigation as to WHAT agenda is being played out.
Wanumba, you forget when the US supported Gaddafi. LOL.
You claim insight, yet your understanding of the world is so shallow.
I notice that instead of encouraging yourself to become genuinely knowledgeable on these issues, you take the lazy way and just whine, grumble, dodge and throw out one-dimensional retorts that continue to demonstrate to everyone your fundamental core rigidity and closed, partisan political ideology.
These are life and death issues, in real life, not a book or a snarky article. Making fun of me isn’t changing reality. I’m not the only one who’s had to live out there, so I’m not special at all. I’ve given what I know straight up to you, I haven’t cheated you or mislead you in any way. Have you reciprocated in kind?
Had Bush been POTUS, Scotland wouldn’t have DARED release the Lockerbie Bomber.
Had Bush been POTUS, and made the decision to take Ghaddafi OUT, then it would have been accomplished in less than two months.
Me personally, I would have been VERY happy with all that. I have explained why I would be happy.
But the Scots got the scuttlebutt that Obama would do nothing, so they took Ghaddafi’s bribes and let the murderer go where he was received as national hero in Libya.
The Muslim Brotherhood is acting on momentum, trying to upend rival Ghaddafi who is All About Ghaddafi, not MB, but in grotesque disregard for murdered Americans, POTUS Obama has personally met with Ghaddafi; Obama’s 20 year pastor who lives in a $1,2 milion house, oozes praise for Ghaddafi and Ghaddafi’s GREEN SOCIALISM vision, and so after bombardment, driving Naval ships around in circles, using up our supply of Tomahawks to no measurable benefit, Ghaddafi is still in power.
Yeah, I’d like to know what the hell is going on. EVERYBODY should know.