Reply #8: The best answer to that is to give you the link to the thread here on the

[karynnj]

war powers SFRC hearing. There are links to various articles and a lot of discussion between us. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=273&topic_id=157074

It is interesting that in the proposal the key was "more than 7 days of combat". When I read that back then, I never thought there would be a reason to define what "combat" means. The US was involved in the Iraq no fly zone for years and that was not consider war - it lasted through the entire Clinton years of "peace and prosperity". Libya is not a direct analogy as there is a civil war actually happening there.

I do think that Obama should have backed a vote at the beginning - when it likely would have passed.