Democrats Introduce Bill To Repeal Sweeping 2001 War Authorization

[tecelote]

Democratic senators unveiled legislation Friday night to repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, a sweeping 9/11-era war authorization that never expired and that President Barack Obama is now using to justify the U.S. military campaign against the Islamic State.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/13/2001-war-authorization_n_6682398.html

[Scuba]

1. Good, but why didn't they do this in summer, 2009?

[stillwaiting]

2. We're going to be asking that question a lot over the next few years.

We've already been given a few occasions to reflect on this thought.

[Scuba]

3. You mean like with voter rights?

[libdem4life]

4. Merrily we Bomb-along, bomb along, bomb along...merrily we...o'er the deep blue sea.

[Aristus]

5. The repukes are going to be torn between wanting to divest the President of power,

and wanting to get their war-freak on...

[Hekate]

6. Obama told Congress they should do that a long time ago, and they didn't. Now at last the Dems...

...are getting a move on, and I am sure Obama is fine with that. But in terms of what he needs to do now, he has to work with what Bush's Congress left him.

Strange to watch the Republicans do back-flips.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. With GOP now controlling CONgress, it's another example of a dollar short and a day late.

How...convenient.