Representative Barbara Lee has introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives a bill to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which has provided the legal fig leaf for our unending 'war on terror'.
She has started a CREDO petition to support the bill which states in part:
Support HR 198 - Repeal of the Authorization for Use of Military Force - legislation that will reexamine and ultimately repeal the flawed blank check authorization to the President to wage war, anywhere at any time.
Now is the time for the U.S. Congress to repeal the overly broad 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF).
Please sign Representative Lee's petition. Give your support to this effort to reign in some of the madness.
The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF):
That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized,
committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
Representative Lee's bill:
Congress finds that the Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note), signed into law on September 18, 2001, has been used to justify a broad and open-ended authorization for the use of military force and such an interpretation is inconsistent with the authority of Congress to declare war and make all laws for executing powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States.
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Effective 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40; 50 U.S.C. 1541 note) is hereby repealed.