If Senator Durbin is right, and the real goal of the U.S. war in Libya is to make an international diplomatic maneuver, then Barack Obama has no good excuse for not seeking a congressional resolution approving of war first.
What can the Democratic Congress do to make sure that diplomacy, and not warfare, is the focus of the new Obama Administration?
Many of these representatives are progressive Democrats, but some of them are right wing Republicans. Hank Johnson included people from both sides of the political spectrum because he realized that the human tragedy of the fighting in northern Uganda merited a unified approach that transcended domestic politics.
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