@ OP
Without being suspiciously terse I'll aim to condense the answer.
1. Using armed forces is the president's power not congress, the president must report any usage to congress within 48 hours. (This includes weapons as well) The Supreme court interprets congresses silence toward the usage of the Armed forces to be a green light for the president to continue
2. Presently all nations engaging Libya with Armed forces are breaking international law, but it's a popular war and I guess the rhetoric is true that it's Obama's fault if a baby seal gets clubbed somewhere. The president is suspected to have waited as long as he did to get key members of the OIC and UN into saying at least a no-fly zone was needed.
3. What's happening in Libya is a combination of insurgency and revolt, the majority of the ones fighting Ghadaffi happen to be illegal immigrants, some of which are Al Qaeda sympathizers or soldiers themseves others are civilians. It looks like international intervention may just turn Libya into another Lebanon.
4. We are fighting two groups there, the Ghadafi loyal Militia, which are para-military and civilian groups loyal to their despot and then we are fighting the Libyan army regulars (were fighting), the Libyan Army regulars are fighting both the militia loyal to Ghadafi (or at least keeping them in line) and the folks revolting and the insurgents.
Okay, I hope that was short enough.
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