We found out yesterday that Obama plans on sending $25 million in aid to the Libyan rebels, and we find out today the President has approved the use of American military drones in the conflict. A few million here, a few million there, and pretty soon this mission creeps into us spending some real money.

We finally have the documentary proof showing the important role oil companies played in the lead up to the war in Iraq. I hope it doesn’t take another eight years before we get documented proof about what a huge role oil played in the decision to launch a kinetic military action in Libya.

It is not surprising that, after months of near-endless deficit hysteria and politicians insisting we need to cut basic services meant to help Americans, the voters have concluded we don’t have a few hundred million to waste on more military adventurism.

Turd sandwich, indeed.

We’re spending an average of $55 million a day to bomb Libyans while, as Bittman says, people here are going to bed hungry.

According to the Pentagon, in just this first week of our “kinetic military action” in Libya, the military has already spent $550 million. Instead of acting in a kinetic military manner toward Libya, we could have spent that money on many great things here at home.

Stirring, no? Moving, right? Well, get prepared to be moved. . . all the way from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 300 5th Avenue SW.

That’s right, in order to comunicate that the US role in the coalition strikes against Muammar Gaddafi and Libyan government forces is not in any way a war and he double-dog dares anyone who says it is, President Obama is taking his show on the road. . . or up the road. . . delivering this speech not from the Oval Office, not before a joint session of Congress, but to a room of “mid-career military officers at the National Defense University in Washington.”

I suspect our founders feared the Constitution might be shredded by military coup, civil war, foreign invasion or dictatorship, but I doubt they ever suspected it would be ruined by semantics.