Read Louis Fisher's excellent testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 28, 2011. Fisher was the senior analyst on separation of powers for the Congressional Reference Service (CRS) at the Library of Congress for forty years and is now Scholar in Residence at The Constitution Project.
"It is legally and constitutionally impermissible to transfer the powers of Congress to an international (U.N.) or regional (NATO) body." (p.3) But that is what Obama claims in saying the war against Libya is authorized by the U.N. Security Council or by NATO. "Nothing in these...communications from the administration can identify a source of authorization from NATO for military operations." (p.4)
The idea that this is not a war because there are not a lot of U.S. casualties is absurd. "If another nation bombed the U.S. without suffering significant casualties, would we call it war? Obviously we would. When Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, the United States immediately knew it was at war regardless of the extent of military losses by Japan." (p.4)
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