US war authority being revoked

US war authority being revoked

Postby Fletch » Thu May 23, 2019 4:09 pm

House panel approves language revoking 2001 war authority as U.S. increases Iran tensions

Passed after Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it has been cited as a justification for conflict 41 times in 18 countries

The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved an amendment to the annual defense spending bill that would end the authorization for the use of military force (AUMF), as lawmakers grow increasingly concerned over the possibility of war with Iran.

The committee voted along party lines, 30-22, for Rep. Barbara Lee's (D-Calif.) amendment to sunset the AUMF, which has been used as legal justification for military operations against terrorist groups.

Passed days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it has been cited as a justification for conflict 41 times in 18 countries.

“In the last 18 years, it really has become increasingly clear that the AUMF has essentially provided the president, and that’s any president, the authority to wage war anywhere in the world at any time,” said Lee, who was the only member of Congress to vote against the AUMF when it was passed.

“It has already been floated as a possibility for using this AUMF as the legal basis to go to war with Iran, a war, again, that Congress has not debated or authorized,” she added.

The amendment would sunset the broad war authorization eight months after the bill becomes law. She argued that it gives Congress and the Trump administration “plenty of time to vote and debate on a new AUMF.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51651.htm

About time but will it change anything? Regime change has become a way of life for the US, and an important element of their economy. The stealing resources, the additional MIC spending and forcing NATO members to increase their military spending, usually from the US.

Just take note of this bit:

it has been cited as a justification for conflict 41 times in 18 countries

Staggering that congress hasn't felt the need to curb this behaviour before. No doubt the msm adherents will be along shortly to tell the forum that they were all civil wars where the government were killing their own people...
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Re: US war authority being revoked

Postby Maddog » Fri May 24, 2019 8:27 pm

Fletch wrote:House panel approves language revoking 2001 war authority as U.S. increases Iran tensions

Passed after Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it has been cited as a justification for conflict 41 times in 18 countries

The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved an amendment to the annual defense spending bill that would end the authorization for the use of military force (AUMF), as lawmakers grow increasingly concerned over the possibility of war with Iran.

The committee voted along party lines, 30-22, for Rep. Barbara Lee's (D-Calif.) amendment to sunset the AUMF, which has been used as legal justification for military operations against terrorist groups.

Passed days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it has been cited as a justification for conflict 41 times in 18 countries.

“In the last 18 years, it really has become increasingly clear that the AUMF has essentially provided the president, and that’s any president, the authority to wage war anywhere in the world at any time,” said Lee, who was the only member of Congress to vote against the AUMF when it was passed.

“It has already been floated as a possibility for using this AUMF as the legal basis to go to war with Iran, a war, again, that Congress has not debated or authorized,” she added.

The amendment would sunset the broad war authorization eight months after the bill becomes law. She argued that it gives Congress and the Trump administration “plenty of time to vote and debate on a new AUMF.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51651.htm

About time but will it change anything? Regime change has become a way of life for the US, and an important element of their economy. The stealing resources, the additional MIC spending and forcing NATO members to increase their military spending, usually from the US.

Just take note of this bit:

it has been cited as a justification for conflict 41 times in 18 countries

Staggering that congress hasn't felt the need to curb this behaviour before. No doubt the msm adherents will be along shortly to tell the forum that they were all civil wars where the government were killing their own people...



Congress doesn't feel the need for anything in unison.

This should have been revoked a long time ago.

If it has to go through the Senate, it will fail based on partisan politics, which is exactly why it passed in the House Committee.
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