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"The War in Libya Growing More Illegal by the Day

By Glenn Greenwald

June 02, 2011 'Salon' -- To the extent that the War Powers Resolution (WPR) authorized President Obama to fight a war in Libya for 60 days without Congressional approval -- and, for reasons I described here, it did not -- that 60-day period expired 12 days ago. Since that date, the war has been unquestionably illegal even under the original justifications of Obama defenders, though I realize that objecting to 'illegal wars' -- or wars generally -- is so very 2005. After making clear that they intended to contrive 'some plausible theory' to justify this illegal war, the White House finally settled on the claim that the war in Libya -- despite featuring substantial U.S. military action with the goal of destroying a foreign army and removing that nation's leader -- is too small and limited to be a real 'war' under the Constitution and the WPR."