More Wars: Yemen Airstrikes now underway while Congress “tiring of war powers scam.”

From DATELINE ZERO: This makes 4!

U.S. Is Intensifying a Secret Campaign of Yemen Airstrikes The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials.

Senators add voices to House rebuke of Obama over Libya war: President Obama’s hopes that the Senate would vote to support the military campaign in Libya seemed to be fading …

5 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq: Five American soldiers died Monday [June 6] when a barrage of rockets slammed into a base in a Shi’ite neighborhood of Baghdad — the largest single-day loss of life for U.S. forces in Iraq in two years.

US wants ‘joint bases’ in Afghanistan, Gates says: The United States should maintain a long-term military presence in Afghanistan as a “tenant” on bases jointly occupied with Afghan forces…

Columnist Patrick Buchanan noted that Congress is “tiring of war powers scam.”

“Last week, House Speaker John Boehner had to scramble to cobble up a substitute resolution to prevent half his GOP caucus from joining with Democrats to denounce President Obama’s war in Libya as unconstitutional and to demand a total U.S. pullout in 15 days,” Buchanan wrote. More than a third of House Republicans voted to pull out of the NATO coalition attacking Gaddafi’s forces, in essence forcing a NATO withdrawal from the color revolution engineered civil war in that country.

From Buchanan’s article:

This is historic.

What explains the shift in political and public sentiment away from military interventionism?

• First, the length and cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — the first in its 10th year, the latter in its eighth — with their endless bleedings of American blood and treasure for inconclusive results.

Over 6,000 dead, 40,000 wounded and $1 trillion sunk, with a real possibility a U.S. pullout from Iraq in December could result in civil war, and a fear that the Afghan War, where the Taliban now conduct jailbreaks of 500 men in Kandahar and fight on the Af-Pak border in battalion strength, may ultimately be lost.

• A second cause is our fiscal crisis. America cannot afford any more wars, or more billions in foreign aid to balance budgets of Arab countries whose treasuries have been looted by departing despots.

• Third, there is the sense in Congress that it has let itself be steadily stripped of its constitutional power to declare war.

Harry Truman conducted America’s first undeclared war in Korea, calling it a “police action.”

Historians now believe Congress was misled or lied to when it approved the Tonkin Gulf Resolution authorizing LBJ to attack North Vietnam.

While George H.W. Bush got the support of both houses for Desert Storm, Bill Clinton launched his war on Serbia in defiance of a House vote not to authorize it.

George W. Bush got congressional approval for the invasion of Iraq by declaring that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction it did not have. We went to war for nothing.

Finally, the Libyan war Obama entered, egged on by Britain and France, but without the support of Congress, makes little sense.

UPDATE — June 9, 7pm:

CIA chief expects U.S. troops to stay in Iraq longer, at the request of the Iraqi gov’t…
Gates says no ‘rush for the exits’ in Afghanistan…