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Defense Sec. Panetta Stresses Importance of ‘Legal Basis’ & ‘International Permission’ for Military Action

During testimony this week in front of a Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Sec. Leon Panetta stunned Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) by saying the U.S. would seek a “legal basis” and “international permission” for military action in Syria (especially if the action was the work of a coalition). The response came after a question of whether the military would seek congressional approval for any action overseas:

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  • momsense
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 7:19pm

    Another reason to get the US out of the UN !

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  • momsense
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 7:19pm

    Another reason to get the US out of the UN !

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  • nolefan2
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 4:58pm

    I heard this and nearly lost my mind. If the UN is allowed to determine when we can and cannot go to war, we are in deeper doodoo than I ever imagined. I also never dreamed I would hear someone say we were going to let the international community decide what we would and would not do. If this isn’t treason, what is? I guess we all need to go and get fitted for our little blue berets.

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  • kaman5066
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:13pm

    SHAME ON YOU “BLAZE” ! I almost quit reading before I even came to this article! Why in Gods’ name do you have it buried so far down the list! geeez guys if you don’t find THIS worthy of front page,
    lead article, and bold type, I gotta keep looking for a news source.

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    • amdoktor
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 1:36pm

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkx8Grgo0_s

      Main stream media is worthless most of the time, agenda driven. the above link is from Fox news and I was surprised they aired it. The FBI director will not answer if U. S. citizens can be attacked or killed overseas, and in our the confines of the U.S. also. He waivers and does not answer. This goes against our Constitution and this needs to be brought out in the main stream. Our most important
      crisis in our Nation is the erosion of our Constitution. One man is the only choice to stop this madness, that is Ron Paul. Time is running out to get on the side of freedoms and to reverse the attack on our Constitution.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 10:43am

    The DOD is saying… the UN & Foreign Groups of Nations… control the US Military… and the DOD will inform the Congress if the DOD sees the need.

    UNCONSTITUTIONAL & TREASONOUS!

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  • TheWholeTruth
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:32am

    Our Congress was just given notice (and legal precedence) that they are no longer needed and are merely ‘ornamental’ figure-heads. Our military has been taken over by foreign entities with the president‘s AND the Congress’s blessing. It‘s called a Coup D’etat. The ‘useful idiots’ of Congress aren‘t so useful anymore and they are only beginning to cry foul since they really don’t want to lose their power.

    Our founders were very smart in separating the powers. Each would want to hold on to their powers and not give them up to a President which would end up making him a dictator. Now they are seeing that they are about to lose it all, just like the Roman Senate.

    Warning to the Congress.. useful idiots are always the first to go when the plan/scam is complete.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 10:34am

      The USA will seek international approval and then inform Congress about its actions?
      Isn’t it US Congress that has the power to declare war?

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  • g.prunty
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 6:43am

    idiot

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  • g.prunty
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 6:41am

    so screw the house and senate the president alone with international approval is enough to send my son to war i think not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • OperationNorthwoods
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:16am

    22 comments? Really. This should be the top story until impeachment starts. Any of you military people here have a problem with taking orders from the UN without congressional approval?

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  • Mess23
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:41pm

    He was brought in to do the jog Gates refused to do – sell out America

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:22pm

    This is so very illegal. It must not be allowed. Will our representatives stand for the Constitution or sit back & let this treasonous act slide?

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  • sngnsgt
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 6:39pm

    Let it be known, that under Pannetta’s watch, the Air Force band program will cut to the bone. Some airhead woman in congress proposed that bands be done away with.Thousands of family’s will be out of a job. Band people are true professionals who have studied their entire lives to achieve the competency it takes to be called world class. Now, they are just a number to democrats. What does this say about a “quality” force. This is a mis-guided step that will gut one of the best programs the military has.

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  • eramthgin
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 5:18pm

    a person with a gun is a citizen, a person without a gun is a servent.

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  • eramthgin
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 5:17pm

    SCARY…..first all wars are illegal except for the winner. Second we can’t/must never surrender our sovreignty to any group or idea. The Congress is the absolute authority on waging war.

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  • begtodiffer
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 3:53pm

    Quick, send the DC Police to Boehner home and see if John boy is still breathing!

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    • Jinglebob
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 5:04pm

      And Israel is trusting this group not to throw them under the bus on Iran?

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  • babylonvi
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 2:04pm

    Whether Panetta or Obama is behind this or he obeying the Globalist Masters in, it is treason. The constitution clears gives this enumerated power to the congress. Was was NOT supposed to be easy to declare or start. We can NOT wait for the elections because, since he answers to the UN, he might cancel elections or refuse to leave if he looses. During impeachment, they CAN go to all depositories of all original records on Obama and demand they be produced.

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  • Kinnison
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:24pm

    Remove SecDef Leon Panetta from office immediately. There is nothing in the Constitution giving any foreign government or international multi-governmental body any say on whether or not the U.S. goes to war. In fact the War Powers Act was specifically passed into law to prevent an American president and his Administration from committing the U.S. to a war or protracted conflict without expressed Congressional approval. The Obama Administration makes a mockery of the U.S. Constitution, and it has to stop.

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    • angiea
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:10pm

      Agree, and thank you Sen. Jeff Sessions for holding this administrations feet to the fire. Please, throw this administration out the door before it slams shut and we’re stuck with a dictator once and for all!

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  • EndTheFedNOW
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 12:26pm

    How in the HELL is this not the top story? The president speaking thru his SOD said that the UN NATO and other foreign international bodies have the right over the American congress to pull American into a WAR. This is CRAZY. THIS IS WAR WITH OUR GOVERNMENT. Mittens Rommney Rick S and Newt G. more than likely AGREE with Obama on this one. You IDIOTS who said the NDDA was not bad. LOOK HOW WRONG YOU ARE. Our government has taken a DUMP on COMMON LAW. Screw the JOINT CHIEFS. SCREW The military man or women who does not have a problem with this.

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  • steveh931
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 12:24pm

    U.S. Constitution, Article 1 Section 8
    The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.

    11th Paragraph
    To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make rules concerning Captures on Land or Water.

    Article II Section 2
    The President shall be Commander and Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in cases of Impeachment.

    Section 4
    The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

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  • AM-Saves
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:51am

    Another step towards making congress irrelevant.
    So is Panetta admitting that he will listen to international bodies over congress/citizens?
    I’d like to see the vid, but the Flash player keeps crashing, it‘s doing that on Breitbart’s site too…

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  • isobamamadd
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:09am

    He’s a Globalist.. Member of the Bretton woods committee
    http://www.brettonwoods.org/

    MORE
    http://www.nndb.com/people/037/000023965/

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  • SueDinNY
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:35am

    What a joke – Obama didn’t even present Libya to Congress for approval.

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  • martinez012577
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:51am

    Ask yourself this. Would your candidate keep us in the UN. If he would, you are voting for the wrong guy. The United States shouldnt ask permission to do anything. We are headed to a global economic collapse followed up by a global governance. Everyone else will not be brought up to Americas standards, we will be dropped to theirs.

    But hey, keep voting for progressives, globalists, and social engineers that cannot win so a socialist/communist can finish us off. The problems we have arent a R or a D problem. Both of them are the problem and talking heads like Rush, Sean, Glenn, and Bill have screwed you into thinking that if we just get rid of Obama the problem will be fixed. The real problem is 3 of the 4 GOP guys are not much different than Obama in a lot of ways and dont address the biggest issue we face which is our spending and debt.

    WAKE UP!!!!

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:49am

    United Nations Article 51.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:13am

    One more move to sell the national sovreignty down the river and to the UN; that is just one part of Obama’s agenda, seeking to make the nation subservient to the whims of the world instead of charting our own destiny.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:41am

      Here’s a wild idea ,STAY THE HE77 OUT OF IT.
      We need to close down the world police force know as the U.S. military and wait for them to come to us if they need help. If they do we state it plain and simple….ALL COST BOTH MILITARILY AND REBUILDING IS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY NOT OURS. THE U.S TAX PAYERS AREN’T PAYING TO FIGHT SOMEONE ELSES WAR AND REBUILD THEIR COUNTRY.

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    • 100 Million Patriots Standing
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:58am

      Advancing the concept of a unified governance. Slowly but steadily turning over U.S. decisions to the Socio-communistic United Nations. Obama already did this before in Lybia. As long as the current crop of elected officials are running things we will remain vulnerable to the continued degredation of our Constitution.

      Replacing the idea of speaking with allies about a given problem, to; seeking permission to act is a monumental proclamation and should not go unchallenged.

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:39am

      This is not Obama’s agenda!! It’s a much larger movement! All the Neo-Cons would agree to the exact same premise including Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, McCain, Graham, etc… Please people wake up and help protect our Constitution..

      Only Dr. Paul stands by the Constitution. Only Dr. Paul. If you show me another I will get behind them but I simply do not see it. You simply can’t play with the Constitution if you intend for future generations and ours to remain a free one… Come on guys!

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