After passing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a 10-8 vote along party lines, the White House has publicly repudiated the authorization for the use of military force against ISIS as “too limiting.”
Press secretary Josh Earnest said the bill was “limiting the flexibility of the commander in chief,” in particular by banning the use of ground troops, even though he insisted the president still does not envision using ground troops.
He further objected to the three-year time limit for the war, saying the president would only accept such a limit if it were possible to extend it without further votes in the future.
The complaints and the bill are irrelevant anyhow, as the bill is not going to get to the Senate floor, nor is there a version in the House that will get a vote by year’s end. The assumption is that the new Senate will have a new, more hawkish war bill in January, and one more suited to Obama’s ambitions.
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In 1776 the white European upper half of society was seeped in corruption, bigotry and prodigious, as they wanted a dictator who would continue enslaving the blacks and finish the genocide of native Americans — and that is exactly what we got
And as corruption is like a cancer that if not completely cut out will eventually permeate throughout all of government and make it irreversibly corrupt, what we have is a Dictator-president with the power to assassinate Americans as he pleases, order Israel to commit genocide on the Palestine natives as he so desires and to enslave all of our Empire to the whim and caprice of a most bigoted and prodigious High Society.
Since when does Washington "order Israel to commit genocide on the Palestine natives?" They are more than capable of doing that all by themselves.
"…more suited to Obama’s ambitions."
Hmmm, and that raises the question as to what his "ambitions" are exactly because he's not even attempted to inform the American people what precisely his plans include.
And, as for the American people, they've not demanded that he delineate what it is he wants to accomplish. It's time the American people made an investment of time to tell Washington that we're tired of the "ignore the people" BS. We're tired of our electeds deciding on their own what we should know – and not know.
Washington DC insider Leon Panetta predicted – promised – thirty years of war against ISIS. That would mean a whole lot of pork for the usual suspects, bankers, war corporations and 1% investors, lots of promotion opportunities for military brass, and lots of grandstanding opportunities for Congress. No wonder this bill – with a three year time limit, and restrictions on "ground troops" – fizzled out.
The war's losers will be US taxpayers and dead / wounded US troops – virtually all of whom come from the ranks of "useless eaters." Congress rarely pays much heed to those constituencies. But the big losers will be the innocent people of Iraq and Syria, who will die by the tens of thousands, and be displaced by the millions. War and chaos may well spread to Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, and beyond. This would all be very good for Israel, which has been planning (Oded Yinon and PNAC plans) this scenario for quite some time.
Yes, some of us are getting tired of this, very tired indeed.
American people are busy following what the kardashians are doing to pay attention to what their government is doing.
So obomba doesn't have a problem with the 3 year limit but ONLY if he can extend it without further votes. Talk about not having much respect for the intelligence of the masses.
I love that there's objection to a 3 yr 'limit' unless we say that's not actually any form of 'limit' as the word is generally used in English.
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Wasn't it Obama who told the American people that there would be "no boots on the ground?" He also told the people that they could keep their doctor and their health plan, didn't he? Classic bait and switch.
Wasn't it Bush who said he was a Compassionate Conservative? Turns out he was neither compassionate (torture) nor conservative (fiscally irresponsible.) Ditto…bait and switch.
They're both guilty as charged. I have no dog in this fight.