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Obama insists Libya mission Â«narrowÂ»

29 June 2011 22:35 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. US President Barack Obama insisted Wednesday that the US participation in the NATO mission in Libya remained narrow, accusing congressional critics of making a fuss for political reasons, APA reports quoting AFP.
"I said to the American people, here’s our narrow mission and we carried out that narrow mission in exemplary fashion," Obama told a White House press conference, adding he did not deploy US soldiers on the ground.
The US House of Representatives last week defeated a bill to authorize US operations against Libya, but rejected another measure that would have cut funding for direct US combat strikes on Libyan targets.
Obama repeated his administration’s defense that its approach to Libya did not violate the US Constitution or the 1973 War Powers Resolution that aims to constrain presidential war-making authority.
"I have had all the members of Congress over to talk about it. So a lot of this fuss is politics," Obama said.
"I think such a consultation is entirely appropriate. But do I think our actions in any way violate the War Powers Resolution? No."