The Progressive: 10 Questions about Obama’s Iraq Bombing
http://www.progressive.org/news/2014/08/187814/10-questions-about-obama%E2%80%99s-iraq-bombing
1. Is it constitutional? Only Congress has the right to declare war. Under what authority is President Obama sending U.S. warplanes back to Iraq?
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5. President Obama cites the humanitarian crisis of the Yazidis. And yes, it is a crisis. But there are other humanitarian crises around the world—in Syria, in the Congo, in the Ukraine. Why Iraq and not the others?
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7. What role is oil playing in all this? As Steve Coll writes in The New Yorker, “ExxonMobil and Chevron are among the many oil and gas firms large and small drilling in Kurdistan under contracts that compensate the companies for their political risk-taking with unusually favorable terms.”
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10. What credibility does the United States have to claim it’s now on a humanitarian mission in Iraq to save innocent lives when it killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives from 2003-2011?
Funny, but I don't recall any of the Republicans complaining that Obama is subverting the Constitution. You'd think they'd be all over this, except for the fact they they just love war,war and more war. Also, sending American service men and women into the meat grinder to ensure Big Oil's profits is right in their sweet spot.
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Thanks, Scuba.
