"The Senate took a first step Thursday toward repealing two measures that give open-ended approval for military action in Iraq, pushing to end that authority as the United States marks the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War.

"Senators voted 68-27 to move forward on legislation that would repeal the 2002 measure that greenlighted that March 2003 invasion of Iraq and also a 1991 measure that sanctioned the U.S.-led Gulf War to expel Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait. Nineteen Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the repeal.

"The bipartisan effort comes as lawmakers in both parties are increasingly seeking to claw back congressional powers over U.S. military strikes and deployments, arguing that the war authorizations are no longer necessary and subject to misuse if they are left on the books. President Joe Biden has backed the push, and the White House issued a statement Thursday in support."

https://apnews.com/article/iraq-war-military-force-repeal-senate-saddam-f5474c570fe133964d9d5dde57c765e2

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Is Code Pink a tankie organisation? I first became acquainted with them in the wage of GW's war on Iraq when the ANSWER Coalition organised massive protests against the war. Recently, I've noticed their distress when the US takes measures against authoritarian government's in Russia and China.

Can someone explain all me through the org, Madea Benjamin, and how tankie thinking goes?

#CodePink
#MadeaBenjamin
#Tankies
#Iraq
#Assad
#Syria
#China
#Afghanistan
#AntiWar
#Authoritarianism
#PoliSci
#History
#GWbush

@kd
We must remember that #Gore won the popular vote against #GWBush in 2000, and might have won the electoral college if #SCOTUS had not halted the key Florida recount.

Trying to condemn the war in Ukraine, Bush inadvertently calls Iraq war unjustified

Former President George W. Bush was criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday when his old nemesis, the verbal slip, struck again. Bush eventually condemned Putin's invasion of Ukraine — but not before he condemned "a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq." ...

... Bush has famously been a wellspring of malapropisms, even prompting the term "Bushisms" and sparking research into slips of the tongue.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1100016029/george-w-bush-condemns-putins-invasion-of-iraq-instead-of-ukraine

#uspol #ukraine #iraq #russia #GWBush