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Originally Posted by Guest
The president won two elections on ending wars, not escalating them, so why is anyone surprised? As Obama said yesterday, Iraq has to defend its own country. We can't do it for them. (paraphrasing here)
And BTW: congress has never gotten around to debating the war against ISSL authorization that the president requested several months ago.
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Your vision of this is very shortsighted and basically, no TOTALLY, political in nature.
The hearings on his AUMF were heard right away, and not many in congress believe in the wallowing plan presented to them by Secy Kerry or JCS Dempsey.
The authorization proposal forwarded to congress was and is political. It served to do just what you are doing and what the CINC wanted...see, you asked for one and I gave it to you. Again, he plays the politics of it and is perhaps the fuzziness proposal of all time, not even strongly defended by Kerry.
This from THE HILL......
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From the day the ISIL AUMF draft was delivered to Capitol Hill through the Foreign Relations Committee hearing that was held on March 11, President Obama has simply failed to persuade any lawmaker in a position of seniority that his approach is the right one. The “intentionally fuzzy” language in the resolution, as White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest has referred to it, has created far more questions for members of Congress than answers. In fact, the draft is not only getting picked apart by lawmakers, but trashed as insufficient to the monumental task at hand or so vague to render any limits on military force irrelevant."
The AUMF: Obama fails to get Congress on his side | TheHill
The debate still continues, while this President tries to con people who know better that his plan is working.
He played politics again, as he does always on important issues.
As always, he feels he is supreme and he alone knows the answers.
From the same article...
"In a way, you have to feel sorry for Obama and his staff. After delaying for the first six months of the military campaign, the administration finally decided to do the right thing — submit a formal AUMF proposal over to the Hill. Yet, in doing so, the administration has opened up a debate that has once again devolved in a partisan fight about whether the White House truly understands the threat that ISIL poses, and whether the executive branch sincerely wants the peoples’ representatives to weight in.
Under questioning, Kerry intimated that passing a resolution along party lines would be “absolutely” worse than passing no resolution at all. If yesterday’s hearing is any guide, Kerry may get his wish."
Our President is a superb, masterful politician. I am looking for statesmanship and leadership.