• Legal experts say Obama misreading his right to wage war - The Hill’s Floor Action
    http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/319415-legal-experts-say-obama-misreading-his-right-to-wage-war

    Sur les grotesques contorsions sémantiques que l’administration étasunienne utilise pour justifier ses guerres tout en affirmant sans rire qu’il ne s’agit pas de guerres.

    Des agressions en fait.

    (et voir aujourd’hui John Yoo faire partie des critiques de l’actuelle administration est aussi grotesque )

    ... the view that the declare war clause [of the Constitution] was a constraint on the president’s power to wage war, but that the hostilities in Libya didn’t amount to a war because of the duration, the chance of casualties, etc.,"

    “To claim that the word ’war’ as it’s used in the War Powers Resolution or in the Constitution is not triggered or involved when the United States bombs another country, because war is not involved when the other party can’t shoot back, I think is just kind of silly,” he added. “The one-sidedness of a conflict doesn’t determine whether it’s war or not.”