White House warns on Libya funding measures

[The Northerner]

WASHINGTON — The White House warned on Monday that attempts in Congress to choke funding for all or part of US operations in Libya would send a "bad message" at a time when Moamer Kadhafi's days were "numbered."

President Barack Obama again finds itself on the defensive over the US role in the NATO mission this week, following a showdown with lawmakers last week over whether he usurped his power in ordering US action.

Congressional sources said that the House of Representatives could vote on measures which could curtail funding for US support operations over Libya, or a narrower bill squeezing some operations.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said such votes would not be helpful and could lessen the political pressure being brought to bear on Kadhafi's regime.

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[Karmadillo]

1. If you vote against funding our illegal wars, the terrorists win.

nt

[gratuitous]

2. I thought removing Qaddafi wasn't the objective

Or has it now become our objective. And what if he doesn't leave, even with all the non-war pressure we can bring to bear?

It's just silly for the administration not to go through the motions of the War Powers Act. Congress will rubber stamp anything the White House wants to do, militarily speaking. It's not like another war is something important, after all.

[inna]

3. it's not "just silly", it's simply inexcusable.

As in, there is no rational justification for this kind of crap; it's as if this admin is trying to out-Bush them all.

:nuke:

[rpannier]

4. You're living in a pre-5/11/11 mindset

After 5/11/11 the objective had to be changed
Don't ask why or the dictators and terrorists win
Just trust that this is being done in the best interest of the country.
Which country?
Don't ask or the terrorists and dictators win.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. OMG! We will "embolden" Gadhaffi!!!!!!!

or Kadaffi
or any of the other 100 spellings of his name, which not even the WH can keep straight.

[chill_wind]

6. Oh yeah. "Days, not weeks" he insisted.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-04-08-column08_ST_N.htm

[Distant Observer]

7. Funding? What Funding? Are we involved in that "fictitious military organization" called NATO?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/libya-and-the-potemkin-alliance/2011/06/17/AGdQ2UZH_story.html

George F. Will, Published: June 17

America’s intervention in Libya’s civil war, the most protracted and least surreptitious assassination attempt in history, was supposed to last “days, not weeks,” but is in its fourth month and has revealed NATO to be an increasingly fictitious military organization.

[Vanje]

8. I wish congress had had the starch ....

to choke funding for GW Bush's needless war in Iraq.

[white_wolf]

9. The difference here(I think) is that Bush

used the War Powers Act to justify it so that way the Left couldn't really do anything about it, but since Obama seems to be refusing to do that there is a chance the war could be unfunded based on that premise. Though I completely agree we should have defunded Iraq as soon as we learned what a lie it was and impeached Bush for his crimes.