Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Dave Lindorff: Congress Should Immediately Terminate the 2001 authorization for Bush Wars.

Read Dave's Op-Ed News featured opinion:

Forget Nancy Pelosi's "100 Hours" agenda for the new Democratic Congress.

The first thing Democrats need to do when they walk into the Senate and House chambers this January is to vote out a joint resolution repealing the September 18, 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which was the authorization for the U.S. attack Al Qaeda forces and the Taliban government of Afghanistan.That AUMF has been used, wholly inappropriately and wantonly, by President Bush as the justification for his assault on the US Constitution, for his willful violation of laws domestic and international, and for his unconstitutional usurpation of legislative and judicial power. [...]

Complete article at:
Congress Should Immediately Terminate the 2001 AUMF

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