The ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) spent Sunday condemning the $733 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed last week as “dangerous” and “reckless.”
McCaul’s dissatisfaction with amendments that limit overseas warfare was
apparent during debate on the NDAA, and on Sunday his particular focus
was on two amendments that would sunset the 2001 and 2002 Authorizations
for Use of Military Force (AUMF).
The 2002 AUMF covered the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the
removal of Saddam Hussein from power. Proponents of eliminating this
provision note that Saddam is long dead, and Iraq is an ally, which
means it is obsolete.
The 2001 AUMF was a bigger issue, as the argument for sun-setting it is
that the language has been stretched to cover almost any war. The debate
on the amendment made clear this was intended to be replaced by
Congress before it expires outright.
Rep. McCaul, however, claims that the cancellation of a bill that can
cover myriad US wars would “illegalize” a number of US wars, and
effectively the entire global war on terror. That is true, if a new AUMF
wasn’t adopted, but there was time provided for a creation of a new
one.
Terrorism has become “loitering”, it is what police say it is.
All by design. And on that note…
Supreme Court weakens FOIA, undermining Americans’ right to know
https://rightsanddissent.org/news/supreme-court-weakens-foia-undermining-americans-right-to-know/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=baf9f3c2-e076-4bdd-8302-0b757b8ae683
This is what the GOP means by “running government like a buisness”.
How can we run this government when we can’t find out what’s going on ? When Wilki leaks and Assange told us the truth .Our government said this was information they did not want us to know .Assange has been locked up ever since .
Yeah. It would illegalize illegal wars. That’s the point.
We should be so lucky to repeal all legislation authorizing this preposterous war against a tactic that only makes the use of that tactic more likely, and rest assured that we will arm some groups that engage in that tactic, but their ours so it’s fine… and all while corporate war profiteers care nothing about who they sell to. They have a financial interest in ensuring that armed conflict begins and perpetuates. The corporate boards of the military industrial complex should be hanged as traitors and profiteers of mass murder. I would laugh and laugh. Let’s be clear, don’t anyone do it… just sayin I would laugh at it.
I agree with Rep. McCaul that our $733 billion NDAA bill passed last week is reckless and dangerous. By around $500 billion.
He may figure NDAA is reckless and dangerous because it is not enough money for terrorism . While I think you think it is about 500 billion tomuch money for terrorism .
Bingo! But the money spent on fighting terrorism isn’t the only waste in that $733 billion.
Stopping the NDAA might make it impossible to fight terrorism . Terrorism would be illegal . Just who were the terrorists in the video Assange and Wilki leaks brought us from Iraq . I would rather terrorism would be illegal and all charges against Assange dropped .
War to protect “national interests” abroad should not include industrial infrastructure for private enterprise. This means ships and refineries, among other things. Patrolling the 7 seas is expensive. Send bills.
The US has proved that no one country deserves to tell everyone else what to do. In my lifetime we have invaded 5 or 6 dozen countries. China has invaded Tibet and threatens India. Russia has occupied South Ossetia, annexed Crimea and is fighting for E. Ukraine. We have more enemies than both of them put together. Yet we are the experts at getting along.
I pray for crypto currency replacing the dollar, just to wipe the smug off Steve Mnuchin’s chinless face.
Are these people serious? Or just stupid. They want to keep forever wars going forever, and new added — without our Congress bothering to authorize them, and decide how to pay for them. They have a nice gig going — no need to go through messy approval process, when they can just run up the bill — and then raise the borrowing ceiling. Taxpayer will just have to swallow it down the road.
Dear bright ones, people are in debt, student loans will be on the backs of next generation that would not be buying homes, or saving for retirement. Now this is terrifying – without worrying about some religious group for hire we anyway pay for. Getting crazier and crazier.