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Joe Biden argued that the president had no constitutional authority to launch an attack without congressional approval against a nation that hadn’t attacked or threatened imminent attack on the United States. Biden also insisted that doing so is an impeachable offense.
How did Obama get himself into this mess? It was bound to happen, given his past habits. All we are seeing now is the melodramatic fulfillment of vero possumus, lowering the rising seas, faux Corinthian columns, hope and change, the bows, the Cairo speech, and the audacity of hope. Hubris does earn Nemesis. -Victor Davis Hanson 
Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who is aggressively lobbying against a military strike on Syria, says the Obama administration has manipulated intelligence to push its case for U.S. involvement in the country's two-year civil war.
As a matter of fact, the U.N. Charter says the only time a country can act alone is "if an armed attack occurs against" it. -Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive
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"The president does not have the 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." -Barack Obama, 2007
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The Obama administration said the president is prepared to move ahead with a limited military strike on Syria without the assistance of allies after the British Parliament rejected a preliminary vote authorizing action. The U.S. said it would continue to consult with the UK but that the vote would not alter its plans.
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A U.S. official briefed on the military options being considered by President Obama told the Los Angeles Times that the White House is seeking a strike on Syria "just muscular enough not to get mocked."
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Gore asserted that Bush's "go-it-alone, cowboy-type approach to international affairs" risked further antagonism overseas and that some of the steps taken in the name of security at home -- including detention of suspects without legal representation -- were "beyond the pale and un-American."
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Wednesday that President Bush's stubbornness in refusing to share authority and decision-making with the United Nations and other countries has put U.S. forces at greater risk, unduly burdened U.S. taxpayers and made success in Iraq far more difficult.
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John Kerry aimed a new volley of criticism at President Bush's (search) handling of the situation in Iraq on Saturday, saying Bush's failure to "internationalize" the conflict has made America less safe and cost it credibility and momentum.
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Then-Senator Obama likewise agreed with the assessment from Biden saying the president of the United States could only authorize an attack in the instance of “imminent threat” to the nation, responding to a question to a 2008 Boston Globe questionnaire on executive authority. 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.
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“I got together and brought a group of constitutional scholars together to write a piece that I’m going to deliver to the whole United State Senate pointing out the President has no constitutional authority to take this nation to war against a county of 70 million people unless we’re attacked or unless there is proof we are about to be attacked.” “And if he does,” continued Biden, “if he does, I would move to impeach him.”
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A hard-core group of liberal House Democrats is questioning the constitutionality of U.S. missile strikes against Libya, with one lawmaker raising the prospect of impeachment during a Democratic Caucus conference call on Saturday.
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President Barack Obama should be impeached for approving air strikes against Libya, Rep. Dennis Kucinich said in an interview Monday. “President Obama moved forward without Congress approving,” the liberal Ohio Democrat told Raw Story. “He didn’t have congressional authorization, he has gone against the Constitution, and that’s got to be said.”