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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) debated President Obama's need to get authorization for the war in Libya on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, but it was the Republican who defended the president's prerogatives.

Graham argued that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional because it is an “infringement on the power of the "commander-in-chief.”

He said he have "no part of any effort to defund” the effort to oust Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi. He said if he is not removed from power, NATO will be destroyed, and the price of oil will double as Gadhafi wreaks havoc in the region.

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