OBAMA: Seeking to justify military intervention, the president said the U.S. has “an important strategic interest in preventing Gadhafi from overrunning those who oppose him. A massacre would have driven thousands of additional refugees across Libya’s borders, putting enormous strains on the peaceful — yet fragile — transitions in Egypt and Tunisia.” He added: “I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.”

THE FACTS: Obama did not wait to make that case to Congress, despite his past statements that presidents should get congressional authorization before taking the country to war, absent a threat to the nation that cannot wait.

 “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,” he told The Boston Globe in 2007 in his presidential campaign. “History has shown us time and again … that military action is most successful when it is authorized and supported by the legislative branch.” 

Obama’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, said Sunday that the crisis in Libya “was not a vital national interest to the United States, but it was an interest.”

 OBAMA: “And tonight, I can report that we have stopped Gadhafi’s deadly advance.” 

THE FACTS: The weeklong international barrage has disabled Libya’s air defenses, communications networks and supply chains. But Gadhafi’s ground forces remain a potent threat to the rebels and civilians, according to U.S. military officials.

 Army Gen. Carter Ham, the top American officer overseeing the mission, told The New York Times on Monday that “the regime still overmatches opposition forces militarily. The regime possesses the capability to roll them back very quickly. Coalition air power is the major reason that has not happened.”

Only small numbers of Gadhafi’s troops have defected to the opposition, Ham said.

 At the Pentagon, Vice Adm. William Gortney, staff director for the Joint Chiefs, said the rebels are not well organized. “It is not a very robust organization,” he said. “So any gain that they make is tenuous based on that.”

 For the rest of the “Facts” please go here:

http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2146732&spid= 

Face Forward comments:

To know one’s surprise and after avoiding making a statement or explaining himself for weeks, Obama made his teleprompter guided speech to the American public last night. After hiding in Latin America, Obama returned to the states to declare that his undeclared war on Libya was justified. I will say this for him, while he continues to be the worst modern day president to ever be elected, he is one of the better liars. Had there not been access to the facts I would have turned off the television thinking, “we are so lucky to have him as our leader in this time of crisis”.

What I find particularly interesting about this fact check is that the article was on the WLS website. WLS is the BIG talk radio station in Chicago. If the voice of radio Chicago is reporting on Obama and his poor record of telling the truth, then his support base has really taken a hit.

If you listen to the nightly news, you will occasionally get a tidbit of the battles that are being fought in Mexico. These wars range from turf wars to full scale military operations.  Throw in a few political assassinations along the way and you might think you understand what it is like living near the border.

As good as I thought I was at dreaming up nightmarish landscapes and dangerous situations, I had no idea how bad it was, until I read through the latest edition of the El Paso Times.  It is the local newspaper serving  the upper Rio Grande valley of Texas and southern New Mexico. You won’t have to read the whole story (and who would have time to read all of them).  The headlines will be enough to communicate the problem we are facing. Mexico is a country out of control.

Sadly, like any disease, it spreads and the epidemic has crossed our borders. Every major city in CA, AZ, NM, and TX is in danger and some have already began see the symptoms.  Latin gang violence in our cities in in the prisons has almost reached the breaking point.  The war has already been declared on you even if you didn’t know it.

My question; Why doesn’t the current administration take on these drug lords and close down the border?  Does it seem odd that with all the problems our border states are facing, this administration has said almost nothing about defending us.  In fact some border states are now suing the Feds for protection.  Let’s protect the border states, even it means a border war. We have invaded other countries for far less and it would be a great reason to bring all of our troops home.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/juarez

At this writing, circumstances in the Middle East may change between this sentence and my last paragraph.

What began in mid-December as an uprising that sent Tunisian President Ben Ali into Saudi exile on Jan. 14 quickly inspired Cairo’s Tahrir Square rebellion. Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 29 years, eight more than Cleopatra, hastily retired when his people hounded him from Heliopolis Palace into his vacation compound in Sharm el-Sheikh.

Just outside Mubarak’s hideaway, two Iranian war ships this week floated north through the Suez Canal. This was the Iranian Navy’s first appearance in the Arab equivalent of the Panama Canal since 1979′s revolution installed the Ayatollah Khomeini and his joyless, sexist, bloodthirsty theocracy.

Eastern Libya now is controlled by regular citizens, freshly armed by soldiers who largely disobeyed orders to shoot their fellow citizens. Strongman Moammar Gadhafi ordered two fighter jets to bomb his constituents, prompting the pilots to defect to Malta.

“I have not yet ordered the use of force,” Gadhafi said Tuesday night. “When I do, everything will burn.”

Time.com reports that Gadhafi has instructed his operatives to sabotage Libya’s oil fields, supposedly to show Libyans that without Gadhafi, things could get really crazy. Libyan production already is down 25 percent, and Italy’s Eni and Spain’s Repsol have suspended operations there.

Read the rest of the Story here:

http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/59902

Face Forward Comments:The domino theory is that when one nation falls others will follow suite. We feared it in Southeast Asia and South America and while it did happen to some extent, America was not really harmed. This time it’s different for a couple of reason. First oil, second religion.

 Oil is so unbelievably interwoven into our lives. Most people only think of the cost of a gallon of gas. But when you consider that pesticides and fertilizers that provide us with cheap food prices, plastics and rubber products as well as medicines will either be gone or become hard to find, we cannot easily escape it grip on us. We get about 30% of our oil from the middle east. Without it $10 a gallon gas will be the least of your worries. Because without oil our economy will collapse.

 The reason that the wars in SE Asia and Latin America eventually ran out of steam is that they were based on an ideology (Communistic / Socialistic style of government) and they were powered by the poor underclass. Once the poor became integrated into the system and got enough food int their stomachs, the revolts largely died. Not so with what is happening in the middle east.

 The middle east is driven by a need to topple anything western in nature (think democracy and capitalism). While the media is presenting it to the world as the poor wanting to be free. However, it is actually an Islamic revolt. Don’t be fooled that the middle east will suddenly blossom and we will see the area full of little Islamic democrices just like Israel. Once the current leadership is removed, you may see elections but it will only be leaders that are approved by the Islamic Mullahs and that follow Sharia law. Once that happens Israel is doomed and the rest of the world could be pushed into WWIII.

After a one year hiatus Faced is back! Look for more great breaking news and commentary. To kick things off read what Ann Coulter had to say.
Time and again, Democrats’ fecklessness has emboldened America’s enemies and terrified its allies, which I believe was the actual slogan of the State Department under Jimmy Carter: “Emboldening America’s enemies, and terrifying her allies, since 1976.”

For 50 years, Democrats have harbored traitors, lost wars, lost continents to communism, hobnobbed with the nation’s enemies, attacked America’s allies, and counseled retreat and surrender. Or as they call it, “foreign policy.”

Check out Ann’s entire column here

http://www.anncoulter.com/