Mark Levin Is Wrong In So Many Ways

Wow!  Guys like Mark Levin, conservative supporters of Obama, only prove my point that there is little DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS.  Mark Levin, you know--the loud-mouthed, debasing voice on distinguished KABC radio of all places, defends Obama's fiat decision to war on Libya and Gaddafi.  Levin says that the US has always gone to war without congressional approval.  Why would a purported, self-proclaimed conservative back the most liberal, sovereign-destroying president we've ever encountered?  To attack Ron Paul, that's why.  If mainstream Levin uses air time to go after Ron Paul you know that Soros is a little worried about Ron Paul's influence in bringing light to their ponzi-scheme known as the Federal Reserve, to which Ron Paul is bringing the thieving machinations to light.  More Americans are aware of the corruption of the Fed, more are aware of their policies of destroying the value of our money and being responsible for jobs-destroying boom-and-bust cycles.  So, Levin, a paid hack for the regime, as is Hannity, tries to denounce and discount Ron Paul by characterizing him as crazy, as a nut-job, as an outlier.  But Ron Paul's consistent message of sound money, NON-INTERVENTION, NON-MEDDLESOME, PRO-PEACE, PRO-PROSPERITY principals are impervious to Levin.  Sorry, Mark.       

Gary North on the Day the US Constitution Was Confirmed Dead

Less Bang for the Buck: The Lesson from Libya

Gary North

March 24, 2010

 
The Constitution is dead. We knew that a long time ago, but on March 19, we had confirmation. On that day, eight years to the day after Bush launched the war in Iraq, Obama started a war on his own authority.
 
Then he left for a junket in Brazil.
 
Bush at least stayed in Washington.
 
Symbols matter. This one marks the gravestone on the Constitution. Ben Stein has it right. In the neoconservative American Spectator, he wrote:

Maybe I missed something, but wasn't that The Constitution of the United States of America that we just laid to rest this weekend?

It was buried in a private ceremony by Mr. Barack Obama of Chicago as he silently signed America on to the One World Government some of us have been worried about for decades.


Look at it this way: Where did Mr. Obama get the authority to commit United States forces to war in Libya? There was no declaration of war. There was no authorizing resolution by Congress allowing money to be spent on a war against Col. Gaddafi. As far as I know, there was no meeting of Mr. Obama and top leaders of Congress to discuss the subject in even rough form, let alone detail. There was no lengthy buildup in which the Congress was "allowed" to express the people's opinion on whether we want to be in a third concurrent war.


There was just a vote by the United Nations Security Council, a very far from unanimous vote, and suddenly, the President's Secretary of State, Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton, solemnly announced that we were at war.


But, when did we amend the Constitution to declare that the United Nations had control over our military? When did we abolish the part of the Constitution that said Congress had the right to declare war? Now, I well know that in recent postwar conflicts, we don't have declarations of war. But we have Congressional debates. We have funding votes. We have a sense of the Congress or some kind of resolution.


This time, zip. Nada. Nothing. Just France and the U.K. and Norway saying that it's time to go to war, and off America goes to war. And off Mr. and Mrs. Obama go to a South American "fact finding" trip for the POTUS and a fun sightseeing junket for the Obama girls.

(I wonder if there has ever before in history been a national leader who sent his country to war -- and the same day went off on vacation. Has that ever happened before? )

Something's missing here. Libya and Col. Gaddafi were and are no threat to the United States. It is sad and cruel that the Gaddafi regime was murdering its own civilians, but so do many governments all across the world, including North Korea, Iran, the Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, and Cuba. Are we going to war with all of them, now?


Meanwhile, again, what the heck happened to the Constitution? Is this Mr. Obama's legacy to our children? The junking of the Constitution in the middle of the night and the turnover of our sovereignty to the United Nations? (By the way, this is the same UN where Libya until recently sat on the Commission on Human Rights.) Why aren't any questions being asked? Is the Constitution that meaningless to us? Are we that pitiful now? Are we willing to toss overboard the Constitution for the writ of the United Nations? I guess so. Sad days.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the Left's version of Ron Paul, has begun formal steps for impeachment. Good for him. Obama ought to be impeached and convicted. Kucinich will get nowhere. Congress has not cared about the war clause since 1950.
 
As Garet Garrett wrote in 1938, the revolution was. http://mises.org/daily/2726
 
The no-fly campaign so far has cost a billion dollars. No one notices. An article on CBS News revealed this: "In the last 24 hours, U.S. forces flew 53 missions in Libya and dropped 10 bombs. All other air forces flew 26 missions and dropped eight bombs. . . ." So, in a total of 79 missions, the allies dropped 18 bombs. That's .23 bombs per mission.
 
Obama bombed the Constitution. One bomb, one hit. The Navy and the Air Force are not doing anywhere near as well.
This impressed me:

As of Tuesday, the coalition had fired at least 162 sea-launched Tomahawk missiles priced at $1 million to $1.5 million apiece and dispatched B-2 stealth bombers -- round-trip from Missouri -- to drop 2,000-pound bombs on Libyan sites.

Total flying time: 25 hours. Operating cost for one hour: at least $10,000.
It did not say how many 2,000 bombs the B-2s dropped. Or what they hit. Or why.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara talked of getting more bang for the buck. A generation later, that metric looks antiquated.
So does the Constitution.