Warlord
05-07-2013, 03:30 AM
“We need to sit down among ourselves as senators and ask a very timely question. And that is whether the AUMF [authorization of use of military force] that we voted for in 2001 — every senator did who was serving at the time — whether that still serves America’s defense needs today,” Durbin told POLITICO in an interview.
Durbin is the number two Senate Democrat, as well as chairman of the powerful Defense Appropriations subcommittee.
Durbin added: “None of us, not one who voted for it, could have envisioned we were voting for the longest war in American history or that we were about to give future presidents the authority to fight terrorism as far flung as Yemen and Somalia. I don’t think any of us envisioned that possibility.”
More:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/senators-discuss-revising-911-resolution-90989.html#ixzz2Sb6lAzVU
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They want to just apply it to my country which would stop that god damn president of yours using is to drone our friends in Yemen and Pakistan but continue bombing the shit out of here for another 10 years!
Durbin is the number two Senate Democrat, as well as chairman of the powerful Defense Appropriations subcommittee.
Durbin added: “None of us, not one who voted for it, could have envisioned we were voting for the longest war in American history or that we were about to give future presidents the authority to fight terrorism as far flung as Yemen and Somalia. I don’t think any of us envisioned that possibility.”
More:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/senators-discuss-revising-911-resolution-90989.html#ixzz2Sb6lAzVU
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They want to just apply it to my country which would stop that god damn president of yours using is to drone our friends in Yemen and Pakistan but continue bombing the shit out of here for another 10 years!