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Following the clear failure of the ‘War on Terror’, launched by George W. Bush following 9/11, the US will re-up it’s efforts, which have only seemed to cause an increase in terror operations around the world.
Members of Congress, including many within the President’s own party, are looking for more blood to be spilled in the Middle East. The two main fronts in the ‘War on Terror’ have failed horribly. Iraq is now a failed state, where instability following the US backed installation then deposition of Saddam Hussein has served as a breeding ground for radical Islamists, angry at the West’s decades-long corporate imperialist designs on the region. Add to that horrible equation a government propped up by US and other foreign interests that alienated a large portion of the Iraqi people. A third of the country has now fallen to radical elements, despite GW and Obama declaring only a few years ago that Iraq was won.
Afghanistan, destined for a very similar fate, is already falling back into the hands of the Taliban — our Soviet era allies Reagan called “freedom fighters,” turned sworn enemies, turned quiet diplomatic partners. Yeah I know, it’s confusing. Read this article we posted earlier today for an in depth look at the origins of the Taliban and how America helped create them.
The war on terror has done nothing but increase the threat from terrorism. Whether from foreign policy blowback or forcing the decentralization of terror groups, the fact is that ISIS and many other groups are more emboldened and powerful than ever, despite trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives lost to combating them. Due to the US strategy of targeting leaders for assassination rather than taking the wind out of terror movements by understanding how and why they are able to recruit new fighters, America’s anti-terror tactics have only made terrorism harder to defeat. Every time a leader is assassinated in a drone strike, the organizations split and become autonomous, making them harder to find and to predict. But these clear foreign policy failures have not slowed down Congress’ and the Administration’s march towards war.
After America ruined Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and countless others, it’s now setting it’s sights on Syria, and to a lesser extent, Ukraine; both allies of Russia.
Here is where things begin to get scary. Congress is just about ready to cede it’s power to declare war. While this isn’t something new, considering the last time America actually declared war was in WWII, it will give dictatorial powers to the Executive Branch to throw the country into any war as long as it’s against some form of terrorism (which is a tactic, not a group, army, or country). According to legislation announced yesterday by Congressman Frank Wolf, it will authorize,
“to use all necessary and appropriate force against those countries, organizations, or persons associated with or supporting terrorist groups, including al Qaeda and its regional affiliates, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, al Shabaab, Boko Haram, and any other emerging regional terrorist groups that share a common violent extremist ideology with such terrorist groups, regional affiliates, or emerging terrorist groups, in order to eliminate all such terrorist groups and prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States or its allies by such terrorist groups, countries, organizations, or persons.”
This is a dangerous, open ended, ceding of control away from the people, and into the hands of the President and his unelected foreign policy “experts”.
This will effectively take Congress out of the equation of waging war as long as the Executive Branch says it’s against terrorism. But Rep. Frank Wolf goes even further. According to The Daily Caller,
He also plans to introduce legislation repealing the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which mandates that only Congress can declare war, and requires the president to notify Congress at least 48 hours before committing U.S. forces to military action. Wolf’s bill says that the resolution “has not worked as intended, and has added to the divisiveness and uncertainty that exists regarding the war powers of the President and Congress.”
This legislation, which is similar to a bill proposed by war monger in chief John McCain earlier this year, will essentially remove all war powers from representatives and turn the President into a de facto emperor on foreign policy.
While most presidents since WWII have committed treason by blatantly ignoring the War Powers Act, there now seems to be an appetite in Congress to repeal the act and make waging unjust wars even easier for the President and his advisers.
Obama already violated the War Powers Act when he unilaterally toppled the Libyan government headed by Gaddafi, and we all see how well that worked out.
Americans should get serious about politicians violating the constitution such as that War Powers Act and have these ‘leaders’ prosecuted to fullest extent of the law. The consequence if we don’t will in all likelihood result in WWIII and millions more dead innocent people.
In the short term, this renewed push in the corporate media and the government for more war on terror should be resisted by every American. It has already been admitted that there is no strategy to combat ISIS; and the best prospects for peace in Iraq, as we have noted before, is to allow Iraqis to form an organic resistance to these ISIS brutes. Any US intervention, as seen in every single anti-terror operation we’ve been involved in the past two decades, will only result in more instability and more of a threat of terrorism. Not to mention more Americans dead and billions more in debt.
Name ONE damn “True CON-servative” and then DEFINE the word. NOECON means Zi ONist IE all israel all the time. THAT is the problem, son.
Blow your anti-Semitism out your asshole, fool.
I’m a Christian but know enough about Israel & real Jews to understand who our enemies are…..
If you’re a conservative, how does it feel to have liberals play you for an idiot?
I wish politicians were stupid and I also wish they were all dead except for a very few, (Ted Cruz and Louie Gohmert, 2 excused examples) but the truth is they are smart, cunning and evil to the very core. Most of them serve their own Satanic interests instead of the best interests of their constituents. The day has come where Revolution in American is the only solution to defeating these disgusting pieces of shit and it cannot begin soon enough for me.
That’s why the President needs the ability to declare war on anyone he designates a terrorist.
@Scott, you are a miserably ignorant piece of shit and a genuine sucker
I hope these are House neo-cons and not true conservatives.
@Shoshana, as true today as then
I wish that Texas would just secede. We are pretty much on our own anyhow!
Well that means he will use it against Isreal.
You know it buddy, he’s a raghead isn’t he? I have pictures of him wearing a diaper wrapped around his head to prove it.
Congress has no Constitutional authority to cede any of its Constitutional powers to any other branch. Every law, act, resolution that allows the executive or judicial branch to exercise powers that the People – via the Constitution – fixed, which means permanently delegated, in Congress, is unconstitutional. The only legal way any Constitutional authority can be changed is by the People through amendments.
However, forget all that. It doesn’t matter anymore. No one cares and I’m so, so tired of trying to get people to see that our whole government, all our elected officials, all current political parties are corrupt and in violation of that piece of paper. A piece of paper to which no one pays any attention.
..and that’s why I maintain that this criminal federal govt. is this republics worst enemy EVER……
Do you think OdumbassCare is ever going to be repealed?….. I don’t – although I will never obey that unconstitutional piece of shit legislation…..
Do you think Dodd-Frank is constitutional? – I KNOW IT’S NOT!!!! – But most Americans are completely clueless as to what it even is!!!
Do you think our voting system hasn’t been completely compromised by entitlements, obamaphones, SNAP cards, voter fraud and public union misappropriation of funds towards Democrat coffers?….. IT’S A FUCKING JOKE!!!!
America is done.
I don’t want to think so, Mac, but you may be right. People aren’t willing to do what is necessary – kick all current elected officials and political parties to the curb. Just get rid of them all. We can’t effect the necessary change working within the republican or even the Tea Party. People refuse to recognize that it isn’t just the people working the system, it’s the system itself. Our system has been so corrupted that only a complete restoration to the Constitution – as it is written – is the only way we can correct things. People still want to believe that electing conservatives will allow us to make changes. It won’t. Our government is operating so far outside of its Constitutional authority that we need a system reset. I don’t mean violence – I don’t want that at all.
The People no longer understand what our elected officials are. Too many believe they are our leaders and are elected to make our decisions for us. Political parties believe they are our leaders also.
It is just a mess and I am so weary of fighting against it, fighting against people’s lack of understanding, fighting against people’s refusal to see what we need to do. I’m just plain weary.
This is not better said. But as a main, we are finished. Just waiting for the civil war to kick off now so FEMA can use all those coffins for the Americans the feds are going to slaughter to make easy for China to come take what we can’t pay. Lock and load.
There is absolutely no doubt about it, we cannot save our Republic without a Revolutionary War. There are a few politicians that I hope make it through, but just a very few.
P.S. The rule of law means nothing in America anymore, thanks to that nigger.
Whoa, Nellie, did I just say NIGGER????
Yes… and quite frankly, I couldn’t care any less…… I don’t give a damn.
you said it quite well……………
You can’t stop telling people though. It did become tiresome. It does seem add if it is faking on deaf ears. But it’s not. Younger generations friend on us informing them. We must fight the intentional disinformation and keep them aware. As well as encourage those with the financial per to make our voice heard. How is lost, only when we give up.
Auto correct is an obamanation
Of course Congress has no Constitutional authority to cede any of its Constitutional powers; since when has that stopped them? Although I agree that their utter disdain for even attempting to follow parliamentary custom has left many (semi)long term observers quite shattered, nevertheless it has quite historic roots. Disdain for Congressional authority began quite early, with fights over the First and Second Banks of the U.S., the early versions of the Federal Reserve. Only Andrew Jackson put an end to the Second Bank, and the Republic was happily Bank-free until the creation of the Federal Reserve.
There are many other early examples, which I will not address here.
Note also that the Republic, which had specifically banned an Income Tax , managed to overcome that when it banned alcohol, from which, in the form of excise taxes, it had derived the major amount of income. The Amendments regarding the prohibition of alcohol and the Income Tax were passed in the same year, necessarily. Unfortunately, the Repeal Amendment only addressed alcohol; they are not that stupid.
The only god DICK Tater is a dead one.
Wish we would of left a few nukes behind in Iraq….. ISIL’s picked up all our old military equipment over there and they have a few stolen airliners…….
….. they could of taken out Washington D.C. by now and solved all our problems!!!
Mac, that’s something we’re going to have to do, one way or another
You got that right.
Just wonder whether to start now, wait till this house of cards collapses or wait til they make their move…..
First move is to organize and I don’t have any ideas on that. It won’t be successful by accident.
george>>Try starting at Oath Keepers or your local Sheriff’s office. You never know you might just be lucky and voted in a Sheriff that believes in the Constitution and is ready to defend it.
There are a lot of grassroots, we need to find a way to coordinate them on a national level; a massive task requiring authority, experience and the balls to do it. That will not be easy and it will meet with sever resistance from the establishment.
Here is how to organize. Bring the damn constitution back. Fire everyone in Congress, Representatives, Any official with any authority, get rid of all those Rich POS’s that are running this country. That will take care of our financial crisis by NOT paying these ass holes that are no smarter then you or I those outrageous paychecks.!! Everyone on ANY kind of Government Assistance has to get an education provided by the gov. instead of just handing them assistance. If you want to make a kid, you best have your own funds to pay for the spawn. By getting rid of all these rich scums that will help pay for the FREE healthcare and it will bring our DEBT down…..Fucking Duh……………….
@jo; all valid points but have nothing to do with establishing a functioning organization