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Americans being killed in berlin, germany by terrorists. mr. reagan said this. when our citizens are abused or attacked, anywhere in the world, on the direct orders of a hostile regime, we will respond so long as i am in this oval office. self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty. bill: so the question becomes is, it the obligation of every american president to do what president reagan did. joining us from washington fox news political analyst charles krauthammer. so, it s this is a tough one, you know, because you get qaddafi. we know he was responsible for the lockerbie bombing. but, the u.s. let it go. we maintained relations with him, you know, and all of that. and i m saying to myself, if i m president, don t i have a responsibility to avenge the deaths of americans at the hands of a tyrant like this? well, i think there are a lot of different cases. amend the case we are talking about where reagan did retaliate is a clear attack on americans and a clear retaliat ....
no. but let me finish. now did barack obama technically ignore the world powers act every president before him has ignored him as well. they seem to believe it s unconstitutional. bill: let s deal with reality. the wars power act off the vietnam war. congress was ticked. bill: must obtain congressional approval within 90 days of introducing troops into battle. he has three months. go back to the congress. go and seek authorization unless you can t. like you have to act immediately and then you have to notify. bill: did have to act immediately. november us within 48 hours and seek congressional approval after the fact. he did technically go back to them and say,. bill: yeah. he says. i i had to do this. is he not seeking congressional approval. bill: no he isn t but he may if he thinks he is going to be in trouble. here is the deal on it he is also bringing up that this isn t an american action. it s a united nations action. right. bill: as a member of the united ....
Hostage is a tough case. qaddafi has a price on his head because of what he did in 1988. if in the course of this war we kill him it, will be justice. bill: okay. charles, thanks very much. pinheads and patriots in a moment tonight starring deer city alley dancing a little bit on national tv. right back with p and p. ....
The nation, of course, there is no imminent threat from libya. he is agreeing with you. that he should have gone and gotten. it s interesting. i wondered how they would square this. bill: is he in chile so you can t ask him the question. is he running down. somebody has managed to ask the question because the reports are that the white house has defended this by saying well, there is no contradiction because he did meet with lawmakers before he did this. well, meet with is not the same as. bill: as getting approval. authorize. authorize. bill: looking a little hypocritical here. but you say he is in a fairly strong historical position because other presidents have done the same thing. this war powers act that constrains him there are serious questions about this thing s constitutionality. if it ever does get litigated. bill: every law in the world has things about the constitutionality. you tell me as the armchair lawyer. bill: thank you. does it make sense to y ....
bill: okay. and people know. have to wait a decade if you want to do the retaliation. bill: you have to have absolute proof before you go after the people. i absolutely agree with that. all right. bill: but in the case of iran, they pick up three american hikers on the kurdish border and they told them. two of them got out. north korea picks up two ladies, you know, on a chinese border and they hold them and they do this and they do that. over the years there have been many incidents. so the american president, i guess, has to calculate what s good for the country or does very a mandate to right these wrongs? he has got a mandate but there is a difference between retaliating for terror attack, which is now over, and retaliating over the seizure of hostage. because when you have got hostage, have you got a living, breathing american at the other end whose life is in danger. in fact, reagan, the guy we have cited here as the guy who did the retaliation for the attack on the d ....