president nixon s veto to get this passed. they can say to the president you have to get authorization. and if you don t you just have to go bomb libya. come back to us and get authorization. otherwise, have you got to get the troops out within 60 days. so now barack obama has to withdraw the troops no matter what the situation on the ground because of the war powers act. sorry, everyone. bill: that s not going to happen. bill: i think the president would be wise when he gets back from el salvador where he is now, i have a very fond memories of that i will tell you about them some day. i can tell by the flare. bill: i almost was buried in el salvador. pretty vicious war down there. it is an interesting league quell it will be interesting to see when he comes back if he does go to congress and say look, we had to do it. it was urgent. people going to get slaughtered. i think congress probably would give him authority to do it? authorizations for the iraq and afghanistan war.
obama, is operating under their authority not american authority. right. but he. bill: any validity to. that authors under the united nations. and the answer to that is no. bill: no. again, is he not the president to do this. bill: can t hide behind the u.n. no. harry truman did this too. can i go into korea even though i don t have congressional authorization because the u.n. says i can and that is how bill: who ruled harry was wrong? nobody. that s my point. is that presidents have gotten away with this for decades. bill: you, megyn kelly just said you can t hide behind the u.n. how does the united nations square up with the u.s. congress? they are not the u.s. congress. bill: because the united nations is an international body and we are a member of that body. we are jumping forward to 1973 and thereafter, we have a law in this country that says our president has to get authorization from our congress. our congress is not synonymous with the united nation
died on board panam jet over lockerbie. traced back to libyan terrorists. one man was convicted as you know. does human rights watch get involved with this terrorism stuff? because i say to my audience, the reason i support this action on behalf of the united states, and it is costing us a tremendous amount of money, is because qaddafi is a terrorist. and he needs to be taken into custody and held accountable for what he did on that panam incident. does human rights watch measure that? we absolutely measure terrorism. and counter terrorism. and we judge both by the standards of international law, international humanitarian law. terrorism is any attack against civilians, typically politically motivated. and it is something we condemn in the strongest terms. there is never any justification to attack a civilian for any reasons whatsoever. politically motivated or otherwise. bill: when you see somebody
americans. i don t see the big downside here. i don t see it as all. if it doesn t go well in the sense that the worst thing that could happen is qaddafi sits on his butt in tripoli and he doesn t get out of there that s the worst case scenario. stalemate. bill: then you just say all right. we will go up once in a while. we will have the qatar planes go up. french planes go up. not do much. sit off the coast. o reilly, you would have the united states of america stake its credibility on this action and cut and run. bill: not running anywhere. keeping them on the carrier. two bad options here. if this turns out badly, number one you have impasse and stalemate. bill: not good but not a disaster. pass it off to the arab league and they do nothing. number two, he seems to be setting a precedent, obama moo here we are going to intervene at the hands of a dictator.
bill: you can go to iraq and walk around. you couldn t do that. you can t walk around very much right now. bill: let s back to it s hard to engineer another country s liberation. people have to liberate themselves. unfortunately many people get killed in history in liberating themselves. bill: would you have been willing to stand by with ralph nader and michael moore and watch those libyans be slaughtered? would you have been willing to do that. i have not been standing by. i personally was arrested in the libyan industry for taking down qaddafi s picture. i have been with the people of libya. but i think it s wrong to send in bombs. i don t think it s going to help. i don t think we re going to see a liberated libya if it s not done by the people itself. bill: i hope you are wrong. i hope we get qaddafi out thereof and that country has a nice better future. i hope libyans do it themselves. thank you. bill: rich new york suburb a smut list posted on the net brandi