Don DeBar's Blog

By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya The war against Libya is built on fraud. The United Nations Security Council passed two resolutions against Libya on the basis of unproven claims, specifically that Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was killing his own people in Benghazi. The claim in its exact form was that Qaddafi had ordered Libyan forces to kill 6,000 people in Benghazi. These claims were widely disseminated, but always vaguely explained. It was on the basis of this claim that Libya was referred to the U.N. Security Council at U.N Headquarters in New York City and kicked out of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. False claims about African mercenary armies in Libya and about jet attacks on civilians were also used in a broad media campaign against Libya. These two claims have been sidelined and have become more and more murky. The massacre claims, however, were used in a legal, diplomatic, and military framework to justify NATO’s war on the Libyans. Using Human Rights as a Pretext for Wa...

On June 15, 2011, after certain members of Congress had attempted to require President Barack Obama to comply with his statutory and Constitutional obligations to obtain Congressional approval for his undeclared, but raging, war on Libya, and after their attempt to do so was thwarted - by Republicans who sought primarily to gain political advantage over the President's illegal acts while preserving the offending policy because they favored it, and by Democrats who favored it but wanted to avoid an up-or-down vote on this unpopular adventure, ten members of Congress filed a Federal lawsuit seeking to impose compliance. Entitled "Kucinich, et al v. Obama, et al" and brought before the US District Court for the District of Columbia under index # 1:11-cv-01096-RBW, the Plaintiffs sought, among other things, "..an order declaring that the operations in Libya constitute a war for purposes of (US Constitution) Article I and, as such, are unconstitutional absent a declaratio...