In 1973, as President Richard M. Nixon escalated an unauthorized bombing campaign in Cambodia, Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) asked, “Does the President assert — as kings of old — that as Commander in Chief he can order American forces anywhere for any purpose that suits him?” Later that year, Congress answered unequivocally that he could not, overriding a presidential veto to authorize the War Powers Act.
Forty-five years later, the Senate took an important step last week toward reclaiming the war powers that Congress has abandoned in recent decades, especially as U.S. military adventurism in the Middle East grew in the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In a surprising 63-to-37 vote, the Senate advanced a resolution introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that would end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s devastation of Yemen. As the first time a war-powers resolution has ever advanced in the Senate, the vote marked a dramatic move toward returning control over matters of war and peace to Congress.
Congress taking back it's war powers, something it gave up long before anyone would have bet $5 to win a thousand that a guy named Trump would become president.
Congress takes critical step toward reasserting its war-powers control
And, that is a good thing.
Congress taking back it's war powers, something it gave up long before anyone would have bet $5 to win a thousand that a guy named Trump would become president.
Congress takes critical step toward reasserting its war-powers control
And, that is a good thing.
Red:
It is, until it isn't.
The nature and extent of power Congress doles to and withholds from a POTUS varies depending on the sanity and sagacity of the POTUS and on the circumstances in which the country finds itself. There is no set rule that's always going to be the one to apply. It's a matter of balancing, based on the circumstances, restraint, flexibility, oversight, trustworthiness and sagacity.
Too bad Congress didn't do that years ago when Lurch fixed ->the GOP destabilized the mideast by invading Iraq and trying to establish it's own puppet government. Total-fail and waste blood and treasure[/B]
There, I fixed it for you.
Red:
It is, until it isn't.
The nature and extent of power Congress doles to and withholds from a POTUS varies depending on the sanity and sagacity of the POTUS and on the circumstances in which the country finds itself. There is no set rule that's always going to be the one to apply. It's a matter of balancing, based on the circumstances, restraint, flexibility, oversight, trustworthiness and sagacity.
Too bad Congress didn't do that years ago when Obama helped devastate Libya and funnel weapons to ISIS.
ISIS is a creature of the Iraq war, which Bush gave birth to and Congress blessed.
ISIS is a creature of the Iraq war, which Bush gave birth to and Congress blessed.
:bs No.... and funnel weapons to ISIS.
Oh...THAT'S your excuse for Obama, with the help of people such as Clinton, McCain and others, further destabilizing the region and arming ISIS? "But...but...BUSH!!!"
LOL!!
No, Obama miscalculated on Libya. But the Iraq war owns the responsibility for ISIS. Nothing LOL about it.
Congress taking back it's war powers, something it gave up long before anyone would have bet $5 to win a thousand that a guy named Trump would become president.
Congress takes critical step toward reasserting its war-powers control
And, that is a good thing.
The only problem with that is that congress voted to do it.
They voted to give the president the authority to go to war. It was the neocons and Bush who actually did it. Cheney's company, Halliburton made billions off the deal. But keep saying it was for a good cause. The hundreds of thousands dead and wounded and displaced from their homes might disagree with you.
There, I fixed it for you.
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