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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMoveOn statement on President Obama's AUMF
http://front.moveon.org/moveon-statement-on-president-obamas-aumf/#.VN6Qabl0yM8By Brian Stewart. Thursday, February 12 2015
MoveOn.org Civic Action Campaign Director Jo Comerford on the White Houses request for Congress to authorize military force against ISIS:
President Obamas proposed Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) is a recipe for endlessand costlywar. It does nothing to repeal the sweeping 2001 AUMF, which 14 years later, is still being used to justify ongoing military action.
Congress must not abdicate its responsibility to oversee U.S. war-making by giving the president a blank check to pursue multiple years of war, in Iraq, Syria, or any nation, against an open-ended array of possible targets. And it certainly must not allow the president to leave open the real possibility of deploying U.S. ground troops, as the proposed AUMF does.
MoveOn members call on members of Congress to reject the proposed AUMF and will mobilize to ensure this message is heard.
President Obamas proposed Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) is a recipe for endlessand costlywar. It does nothing to repeal the sweeping 2001 AUMF, which 14 years later, is still being used to justify ongoing military action.
Congress must not abdicate its responsibility to oversee U.S. war-making by giving the president a blank check to pursue multiple years of war, in Iraq, Syria, or any nation, against an open-ended array of possible targets. And it certainly must not allow the president to leave open the real possibility of deploying U.S. ground troops, as the proposed AUMF does.
MoveOn members call on members of Congress to reject the proposed AUMF and will mobilize to ensure this message is heard.
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MoveOn statement on President Obama's AUMF (Original Post)
mother earth
Feb 2015
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KG
(28,751 posts)1. they never loved him anyway...
mother earth
(6,002 posts)2. He's not winning new favor with this request either & rightly so.
Stop your crying, there's no crying in politics, unless you are Boehner, than you can cry a river with crocodile tears.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)5. If only we had elected Hillary Clinton Zap!
(vague reference to a particular musical event, reply if you get it)
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)3. K&R I agree with MoveOn.
I think the timing of this proposal undermines peace efforts.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)4. K & R !!!