HEY! America please tear yourself away from the Tube and the wondering what gender the Royal will squirt out! If this is your concern then I weep for my country.
The ink is barely dry on the Iranian compromise and there are some on the Right that are in a panic…..some aka Sen. Cotton are already calling for a limited airstrike at Iran’s nuke facility……I am sure if I kept up with Neocon think tanks they would be all over the use of this type of force…..like Heritage.
I bring all this up because of the “Authorization for the Use of Military Force” (AUMF)……remember? That is that request the president has sent to Congress for them to do their duty and either approve the use of force or not….the process is that simple.
When Pres. Obama decided to go after ISIS with airstrikes the GOP went batcrap crazy…….demanding that he stop because he did not have the authorization to use force……all that made for great TV and great e-mails to supporters……Obama then decided that he would play their game and he sent an AUMF to Congress for approval…….and that is where it went to die.
To this day it is still waiting for some sort of action from the Congress…..and while we are waiting the Speaker of the House has brought up a good point…….
Speaker John A. Boehner said Tuesday that American troops in Iraq should move beyond training Iraqi forces to take a more direct role in fighting against the Islamic State.
After returning from a spring trip to the Middle East, Mr. Boehner told a group of reporters that the Obama administration has placed “artificial constraints” on military commanders responsible for 4,500 members of the American military there rather than allowing conditions on the ground to dictate strategy.
Let see……want to expand the use of military force but do not want to go on record authorizing it…is that about it? The politicians are running scared….it is an election and they do not want something on record that could be used against them in an election.
This brings me back full circle……..without the AUMF how could dickhead Cotton use military force? All this person is doing is throwing red meat at the base. A typical American response to a problem….run from it and let someone else do the hard stuff.
Does everyone see why I feel I must keep pounding these people…..at best they are HYPOCRITICAL…….and at worse…….DANGEROUS!
American lives are at stake…….and NO one seems to care!
I agree with Iraq war vet Jim Wright on this one
https://www.facebook.com/dailykos/photos/a.416444264254.190398.43179984254/10152502520644255/?type=1&pnref=story
Larry thanx for the link…..and I also agree with Wright….sadly the rest of the US seems to suffer from massive brain farts…..LOL
The war does not directly affect Americans except those that have soldiers deployed – so their brains go into atrophy, they throw their hands up at the politicians and let it go at that!! Sad.
I agree….there has got to be more skin in the game for all Americans…..we need to know what others have to deal with thanx to war……chuq