House set to repeal 2002 Iraq war authorization

[DonViejo]

June 17, 2021, 8:04 AM EDT
By Rebecca Shabad

WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday is poised to repeal the 2002 war powers resolution that authorized the use of military force in Iraq, a reversal that Democrats have been trying to enact for years.

The White House said earlier this week that it supports the measure, proposed by Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., because “the United States has no ongoing military activities that rely solely on the 2002 AUMF as a domestic legal basis, and repeal of the 2002 AUMF would likely have minimal impact on current military operations.”

Biden is committed to working with Congress to ensure “that outdated authorizations for the use of military force are replaced with a narrow and specific framework appropriate to ensure that we can continue to protect Americans from terrorist threats,” the White House said.

The repeal of the war powers resolutions from 2002 as well as from 2001, which authorized the U.S.-led invasion into Afghanistan, has come up for debate numerous times through the years, typically when presidents have relied on them for military action. Democrats especially have criticized the Iraq war resolution as a mistake predicated on false intelligence about the threat of weapons of mass destruction and have said the 2001 resolution has given presidents too much leeway to wage war.

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1. K&R

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2. Good n/t

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3. one more way biden is righting the ship of state.

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4. Good. If only we could get the lives and money back.

All for nothing.

[DallasNE]

5. But That AUMF Had Language

Authorizing military force only if Saddam refused to give UN inspectors full access to all facilities for WMD. While Saddam did at times deny access at first he did in fairly short order relent. The UN inspectors had attested that Saddam had given full access but they needed more time because some documentation on the destruction of WMD was still missing. With summer heat coming on, Bush decided he could not wait any longer so he declared that Saddam had not allowed the inspectors in and launched the war. Technically it was an unauthorized attack on Iraq. We now know that Hans Blix was right and George Bush was wrong. George Bush was re-elected anyway. The media reaction was always to ignore that little clause in the AUMF.