Unveiling a draft authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) against ISIS on Wednesday, President Obama blundered pretty dramatically, turning what many expected would be an easy approval into a huge obstacle.
During his speech on the matter, President Obama claimed the AUMF was severely limited, and almost immediately lost the support of the hawkish leadership in Congress, particularly in the Senate, which want a hugely more bellicose war.
The bigger problem is that Obama was lying in the speech, and the White House press secretary tried to get the hawks back on board by admitting as much, saying the AUMF was deliberately vaguely worded to allow the president to unilaterally escalate as much as he wants.
Which brought out the antiwar opposition, with Rep. Adam Schiff (D – CA) leading a coalition of antiwar Democrats and Republicans who are also opposing the AUMF for giving the president carte blanche for war.
While some hawks might get back on board with the AUMF knowing the bill allows limitless escalation, many are likely to continue to object to it, wanting officials to be more overt about their hostile intentions for the region.
It’s time for a preemptive strike at the War Party’s congressional fortress. Please call your congressional representative today and urge them to vote no on the AUMF – because we can win this one. We stopped them last time when Obama decided it was time to bomb Syria. One by one members of Congress who were inclined to authorize that military campaign backed away when faced with a deluge of outraged calls from constituents. We can do it again – oh yes we can!
Please make that call today – because the future of this country, not to mention the peace of the world, depends on it.
One essential flaw of character that exerts itself repeatedly with Obama is this business of thinking that he can satisfy everyone with some split-the-difference kind of position. He's done this again and again with the Republicans and usually he satisfies no one. Morally, Obama is just the worst sort of worm, having deceived his most eager supporters in the beginning of his term in office and most everybody else by the time it was half way through. Hoping that this piece of crap war authorization gets deep-sixed and if it does, we'll have Obama's defective moral character to thank.
If you try and please everyone, no one will like it – still holds true.
He really has deceived everyone. Only the most ardent Kool-Aid drinkers with little to nothing to go on, still let themselves be snowed.
The end game of WW2 was unconditional surrender. The [planned endgame of the war against ISIL is regime change in Syria.
Tick, tick, tick, tick… that's the clock waiting for the next "crisis event" to come along and save the warmongers from defeat. You know, the kind of event that they can use to scare the bejeesus out of the "we believe everything they say" armchair class…like 9/11, which TPTB used to hijack the country. In case you hadn't noticed, we are no longer a real democracy. The opinions of the non-elite, unelected class no longer have a voice that can be heard. It's either been taken away, ignored, or willfully discarded.
Great news. Let's make it 1000 miles high AND wide. Enough of this warmongering already…
like 9/11, which TPTB used to hijack the country.
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….which is exactly why TPTB engineered 9/11. I mean you don't seriously believe the man in the cave did it, do you!?
I get the feeling that Obama is too smart to play fake cowboy like the other politicians and is avoiding a real struggle by slyness nd deception but don't tell anybody this.
I'm calling Robin Kelly. The last time I called her office, they said she agrees with Obama. I know she'll be re-elected. She doesn't deserve it.