The Authorization for Use of Military Force passed by the Senate is a rewrite of the Constitution’s War Powers clause and grants the President broad authority to deploy ground troops almost everywhere in the world, including the United States. That’s the warning being voiced by Democratic Senator Chris Murphy in response to the AUMF bill proposed by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The bill would grant the president overwhelming control over where the US forces are deployed, which is scary for two reasons. The first is the obvious threat to American citizens’ rights. If the military can be sent to an American city based on loose justifications, they could be used to impose martial law and even empower a police state that has already grown too powerful.
The second reason is the plain call back to Manifest Destiny. Americans do not want to police the world. If the European Union is too busy handling the migrant crisis and Russia has finally come to terms with the harsh economic reality that their country is on the brink of collapse, it would leave the United States to ensure the sovereignty of all democratic nations. A solution that nobody would want.
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That’s why I’m voting Trump
Not without a fight !
B******t….you saps are hilarious!
Arrest these people for treason
Obama really wants to SEE just how many guns are in America do he !!!!!!!!!!!!r
The good thing is that Obama is not my president so he can declare whatever he wants, I wont abide by it. The military would arrest his dumb$#%&!@*long before they would obey some idiotic atempt to surpress Americans. Obama, you are a worthless piece of trash and I hope that your plane goes down in a fiery crash and sinks to the bottom of the ocean, so you can be with your buddy Bin Laden…douchebag!
yes
Has r the bill already passed??? McConnell is stupid to let it happen!!!!
He’s full of$#%&!@*too. Obama needs to be impeached and he needs to be impeached, now!!!!
and who let him have full power, you politicians