In a stunning move, the House Appropriations Committee today approved an amendment to the massive military spending bill offered by Rep. Barbara Lee (D – CA). The amendment, passed in a voice vote, and would repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF).
Rep. Lee has long been pushing amendments and bills trying to end America’s assorted wars. That one actually passed committee this time is nothing short of newsworthy, though the House Republican leadership was also quick to insist the vote doesn’t actually count.
The 2001 AUMF authorizes the president to wage war on those directly involved in 9/11, the interpretation of which at this point is that the president can declare wars pretty much at will and this amounts to Congressional authorization for all of them. This AUMF was used to justify the Afghan War, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the re-invasion of Iraq after that first war ended, and the invasion of Syria both to fight against ISIS, and potentially to pick a fight with the Syrian government. It was also presented as justification for the 2016 US intervention in Libya, though ironically not the US-led regime change war in Libya, which was itself “justified” by a vaguely worded UN resolution.
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http://news.antiwar.com/2017/06/29/house-votes-to-repeal-aumf-ruled-out-of-order/
Failure to repeal this AUMF is proof that "our" Congress has no intention of EVER ending "our" wars.
This means that IN FACT our republic is dead. We now live in a dictatorial military-industrial-banking-information-prison complex. Period.
And note well that this complex now uses "special forces" and various contractors to wage its wars, which means that We The People cannot even bring a stop to its wars by refusing to fight.
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