The first casualty of war? The Truth!

This doesn't shock us even a little.  It seems to have become the norm that when Obama opens his mouth the truth doesn't come out, e.g. the CBO added $26B added to the deficit in 2011 and $80B in 2012 on Friday while Obama claimed he was cutting the deficit in those years.  We know all about Hillary Clilnton and her lies since being in the public eye after her husband was elected President.  It is one thing to lie or spin the budget deficit but now the truth is taking hit about the war in Libya. 

Congress is still waiting to hear about Obama sending US military into the skies of Libya using the United Nations resolution instead of Obama going to Congress for approval.  He hasn't even bothered to notify the leaders of Congress yet about what he has done and to ask for extra money in the budget.  This is going to be a budget buster but he could care less as he treats the US Treasury like his pocket change. 

How much is this war going to cost and what is going to be the end result?  Looks to us like there is no end game and most likely Gadhafi will remain in power and some of the rebels who are Jihadists will trying to take over which will result in a stalemate.  We just don't see Gadhafi being ousted with the type of military action we are seeing.  What happens if Gadhafi is ousted?  Has anyone in this Administration or Congress thought what might happen if the Jihadists take over some of the largest oil fields in the world.

The United States doesn't have the resources to be involved in this action with the military we have deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan but it didn't stop Obama from leading the way for the UN no matter what he says.  The UN says jump and looks like Obama says 'how high?' 

Sending off 110 Tomahawk missiles and claiming it was a joint operation when the Brits only shot off  '2' missiles leaves the US shooting off 108 missiles defies belief that they could call it a joint operation.  With using these missiles, is Obama going to allow the DoD to replace them?

When we fly B-2's from Whiteman AFB, MO, to Libya and back in a 25-hour flight, there is no doubt the United States is leading this effort including the head of the operational command of  Odessey Dawn is the American General Carter Ham and and head the Joint Task Force is Admiral Sam Locklear.  Looks to me like the leadership is American.  So much for Obama and the media talking about the French when it was all under control of the United States.

What is Obama and this Administration going to do to the United States with a little less than two years left?  Nothing should shock us out of this incompetent President who puts himself above all.  Cannot believe he continued with his planned spring break family vacation while sending our pilots into a war situation.  Where is the outcry from the media?

The first casualty of war

03/21/11 5:18 PM
Senior Political Columnist http://twitter.com/TPCarney

You know the old saying about the first casualty of war. We've already suffered some casualties on the truth front that will make it difficult in the future to trust what our leaders tell us about the continuing U.S. role and obligations.

Here are some of the things we've been told that can best be classified as false:

"We did not lead this," Sec. of State Hillary Clinton said of Operation Odyssey Dawn. But the Joint Chiefs of Staff tell us something different: "In these early days, the operation will be under the operational command of General Carter Ham, commander of U.S. Africa Command," Gortney told reporters at the Pentagon. "And the commander of Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn, which is the name of this operation, is Admiral Sam Locklear, who is embarked on board USS Mount Whitney in the Mediterranean."

The Joint Chiefs also said this: "earlier this afternoon over 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from both U.S. and British ships and submarines struck more than 20 integrated air defense systems and other air defense facilities ashore." That's true. But reportedly the British contribution to that sum was 2 missiles. That's like saying that St. Louis Cardinals' First Baseman Albert Pujols and Shortstop Brendan Ryan combined last year for 44 home runs. It's true, and misleading.

Read more at the Washington Examiner

When you have members of Congress from both parties, liberals and conservatives, questioning this Administration and its actions on a variety of fronts there are huge problems.  Never thought I would hear liberal Democrats bringing up the word impeachment Obama, but we did.  If the mainstream media would report the facts instead of still trying to spin for Obama, more people would understand that Obama is going to go down in history as the laziest along with being the the worst President ever.  He has no regard for the Constitution, our military, or most Americans. 

Obama doesn't think twice of revving up the engines of Air Force One in these times of high fuel prices and jetting off to South American for spring break on the taxpayers dollars.  While in Brazil he launches the United States into another 'undeclared' war this time against Libya.  He can spin whatever he wants but it is Spring Break for his kids, and he is in a foreign country.  If it was a business trip, the trip could have been delayed like he delayed going to Indonesia all those times when pressing matters were happening in Congress.  We think sending our military into an undeclared war is a little more important than his domestic agenda.

Take a look at his pressing business in Brazil which was much more important than talking to leadership of Congress about sending our military into Libya airspace and launching cruise missiles. Has he found a golf course yet?

UPDATE: It seems that Obama yesterday sent letters to leadership of Congress about the action in Libya according to the Washington Post:

On Monday, the president sought to clarify U.S. goals amid mounting criticism from across the political spectrum that he has yet to clearly define the U.S. interest, mission and ambition in Libya.

“The core principle that has to be upheld here is that when the entire international community almost unanimously says that there is a potential humanitarian crisis about to take place, that a leader who has lost his legitimacy decides to turn his military on his own people, that we can’t simply stand by with empty words,” Obama told reporters during a trip to Chile. “That we have to take some sort of action.”

In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), he also outlined the reasons for the U.S. military involvement in Libya and underscored its limited scope.

A day earlier, Boehner issued a statement saying that the administration had a “responsibility” to better define the mission in Libya.

Appearing with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Monday during his visit to Santiago, Obama suggested that the United States and its international partners had “a wide range of tools” beyond military power to help rebels in their efforts to push Gaddafi from power.

Obama keeps talking about efforts to help the rebels push Gaddafi from power but this exercise is not supposed to be about regime change according to the United Nations resolution:

Under the U.N. mandate authorizing the mission, international fighter pilots are not permitted to intervene in battles between Libya’s forces and the loosely organized rebels.

Looks like Obama doesn't pay any more attention to the United Nations Resolutions then he does to our Constitution.