In fact, you could say the War Powers Act is an incentive to push the button.

Brian Dunn parsed the Obama administration’s explanation of why the War Powers Act doesn’t apply to our actions in Libya, and:

I find this fascinating.

I do believe that under this (the Obama administration’s) logic, we could nuke somebody and not fall under the administration’s definition of war.

Hey, every post-apocalyptic movie I’ve ever seen said World War III was over really, really fast. No 60-day limit needed. Throw enough nukes at somebody, they won’t have enough people left to fight. War? What war? There’s no fighting here.