Another Obama Lie..err Mistatement..Exposed

At his press conference the other day, president Obama was asked about the War Powers act and the war in Libya. He said that the US was just in a support role. This follows a report from the White House to Congress that claimed that since US forces were not involved in the hostilities but played only a support role, the action was not active hostilities of thetype that fell under the War Powers Act.

The news today exposes Obama's claim as false. According to the United State Africa Command (AFRICOM), "U.S. aircraft continue to fly support missions, as well as strike sorties under NATO tasking." The spokesman for AFRICOM went on to disclose that since NATO took over the Libya mission, US planes flew 3475 sorties of which over 800 were "strike sorties". In other words, American planes are doing much more than playing a support role for NATO. I doubt that there is any country in the world that could get hit by 800 American strike sorties and say that they were not at war with the USA.

This is another instance where Obama actually thinks that what he says is more important than what he actually does. If he wants to say that the War Powers act is unconstitutional and ignore it, he could do that. Then it would be up to Congress to act if it wanted to stop the War. If Obama wants to take the position that the War Powers Act is constitutional, then he has to obey the law. It would not have been difficult to do that; indeed, every president has done so since the Act was passed. We all remember the debates in Congress prior to the start of Desert Storm, the action in Afghanistan and the Iraq invasion. Obama could just have asked for a vote at the start of the Libyan war. Obama chose instead to just blatantly lie to both Congress and the American people. I guess I am supposed to call it a misstatement in keeping with the respect that Obama merits. Indeed, if this were the first or second time that it had happened, I might tone mdown what I am saying. It has happened so often, however, that there is no reasonable conclusion that one can draw other than that Obama is a liar, and one who does not even tell good lies. If George Bush had done this, the press would mock him for making a statement that was so obviously false that it could be disproved by quick questions to the millitary. After all, according to the press Bush was a moron. Obama, however, is billed as a genius in the press. I do not know. I have yet to see any genius at work in Obama. On the other hand, I have seen a congenital liar in what Obama does.

Obama has got to go!