'A larger and far more consequential challenge remains: repealing the 2001 AUMF which authorized the global war on terror,' says mattduss as the Senate votes to rescind the Authorization for the Use of Military Force in Iraq.
Former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump boththe AUMF when the former launched, and the latter escalated, the U.S.-led coalition campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
;“The Senate repealing the 1991 and 2002 AUMFs for Iraq is a great start. A larger and far more consequential challenge remains: repealing the 2001 AUMF which authorized the global war on terror. https://t.co/2Oeg57xmha @CarnegieEndow @CEIPStatecraft;𠇜ommon Defense political director Naveen Shah related that "as a veteran of the War in Iraq, I saw firsthand the utter devastation the war had on ordinary Iraqis, and the ordinary troops who were sent there.
Bridget Moix, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, said that"Quakers know that war is not and never has been the answer. Not today. Not tomorrow. And certainly not 20 years ago."
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