Quote Originally Posted by firstandten View Post
While I don't like war either Obama saw a possible correlation between Libya and Rwanda and he was not going to let history repeat itself on his watch.

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...libya-rwanda/1
That proves that Obama wanted to get involved. It doesn't prove that he had the authority to get involved. The Constitution of the United States of America requires an Act of Congress to get involved. Obama could have asked Congress to approve the war. Congress acted in mere hours in declaring war on Japan and bailing out banks so they could have acted in time for this.

While an ends justify the means is always insane to me, even that argument doesn't address whether the U.S. Constitution gives the President of the United States the ability to go to war without Congressional approval.