Caught on video: Horrifying proof that Libya's freedom fighters have turned into brutal torturers

[joshcryer]

88. No, he did not. That is simply false, total revisionism.

Please do not revise history when you cannot back it up with facts.

You are trumpeting an anti-Obama view that Obama flip flopped on humanitarian interventions, he did not. I already established that. You have provided no evidence to the contrary, and I don't expect you to.

The quote you are talking about from 2007 is:

The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

Yes, he flip flopped on that, marginally. (His lawyers decided he didn't, the congress decided to not do shit about it, so it was a wash.)

Otherwise, you are completely off base and your criticism does not rest in reality.


Obama Calls for Unilateral War Against Pakistan

"Let me make this clear," Obama said in a speech prepared for delivery at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al-Qaida leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will."

Obama campaigned as a pro-war candidate, he was always going to do what he did.

FYI I disagree with Obama's drone wars and his answering the Libyan call for help was merely an accident of history. China and Russia could've just as easily vetoed it, and it would not have been "not all bad." The outcome would've still been similar, lots of chaos and dead in the streets.