The legal authority provided to the White House to strike al-Qaida and invade Iraq more than a dozen years ago now means that the US can wage war against a terrorist organization that’s decidedly not al-Qaida, in a country that is definitely not Iraq, writes Trevor Timm. Truth cannot come from falsehood, and Barack Obamas justification for this new war is a false one, based on false premises, just as Bushs invasion of Iraq in 2003 was. The only possible legal grounds for this new war would be a full declaration of war by Congress -- which the Constitution uniquely authorizes to declare war -- clearly stating the enemy against whom were declaring war & unambiguously articulating the rationale for that war. Anything else would be nothing but a new Gulf of Tonkin resolution... #BarackObamaisafailure theguardian/commentisfree/2014/sep/24/obama-misleading-war-isis-syria
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:22:36 +0000
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