What does the War Powers Act mean?

While no President seems to have ever explicitly supported the Constitutionality of this Resolution, Congress not acting to at least force a vote on the matter, a makes it a loose guideline rather than any kind of real Executive restriction. President Obama seems to have confirmed the ability of the President to initiate non-trivial military action, for an arbitrary period of time, without formal Congressional
approval of any kind. That is something that his predecessor never did.

From The Campaign Spot by Jim Geraghty-->

We Don't Have a Kinetic Military Operations Powers Act, Do We?

Today is the 59th day of war kinetic military action in Libya.

From the War Powers Act, now apparently optional:

(b) Termination of use of United States Armed Forces; exceptions; extension period

Within sixty calendar days after a report is submitted or is required to
be submitted pursuant to section 1543 (a)(1) of this title, whichever is
earlier, the President shall terminate any use of United States Armed
Forces with respect to which such report was submitted (or required to
be submitted), unless the Congress (1) has declared war or has enacted a
specific authorization for such use of United States Armed Forces,(2)
has extended by law such sixty-day period, or (3) is physically unable
to meet as a result of an armed attack upon the United States. Such
sixty-day period shall be extended for not more than an additional
thirty days if the President determines and certifies to the Congress in
writing that unavoidable military necessity respecting the safety of
United States Armed Forces requires the continued use of such armed
forces in the course of bringing about a prompt removal of such forces.

In this time of crisis, President Obama is expected to deploy previously top-secret Special Theories that have been trained in obfuscation, confusion and distraction.

The administration apparently has no intention of pulling out of the
Libya campaign, and Mr. Steinberg said that Mr. Obama was committed "to
act consistently with the War Powers Resolution." So the Obama legal
team is now trying to come up with a plausible theory for why continued
participation by the United States does not violate the law.
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