Obama's New View of His Own War Powers

'Yesterday,�Hillary Clinton told the�House of Representatives that "the White House would forge ahead with military action in Libya even if Congress passed a resolution constraining the mission."��As TPM put it:��"the administration would ignore any and all attempts by Congress to shackle President Obama's power as commander in chief to make military and wartime decisions," as such attempts would constitute "an unconstitutional encroachment on executive power."

As Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman noted, Clinton was not relying on the�War Powers Resolution of 1973 (WPR); to the contrary, her position is that the�Obama administration has the power to wage war in violation even of the permissive dictates of that Resolution. �And, of course, the Obama administration has indeed involved the U.S. in a major, risky war, in a country that has neither attacked us nor threatened to, without even a pretense of�Congressional approval or any form of democratic consent.� Whether the U.S. should go to war is a decision, they obviously believe, "for the President alone to make."'

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