After Rep. Barbara Lee's Years-Long Fight, House Votes to Repeal 2002 Iraq War Powers Resolution
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday moved to repeal a nearly two-decade-old war powers measure, marking what many lawmakers hope will be the beginning of the end of wide-ranging authorities given to the president after the 9/11 terror attacks.
The vote was 268 to 161. The measure now heads to the Senate.
Democratic East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee — who in 2001 and 2002 voted against two war power measures passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks — was the sponsor of the repeal bill. The plan would end the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF, that greenlighted then-President George W. Bush's plans to invade Iraq.
"It's been such a long time coming," Lee said ahead of Thursday's vote. "It's Congress' responsibility to authorize the use of force, and that authorization cannot be blank checks that stay as authorizations for any administration to use the way they see fit."
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If it doesn't get any Republican votes, that will just be more evidence of their hypocrisy. 
And it was attached as a rider on the annual Defense Authorization funding bill that year.
Democrats want Trump to know: Military action against Iran needs congressional authorization.
By Tara Golshan Jun 19, 2019, 6:30pm EDT
As the United States escalates tensions with Iran, House Democrats are sending President Donald Trump a message: If he wants to take any military action, he has to get permission from Congress first. The House voted Wednesday to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which was passed in the days after 9/11, and gave President George W. Bush the authority to go to war with al-Qaeda and any related organization. For the past 18 years, presidents of both parties have used this same 2001 congressional war authorization as justification for wars all over the Middle East.
The vote is particularly significant now, as Trump administration officials briefed Congress Wednesday on what they said are connections between Iran and al-Qaeda. Trump’s administration has been escalating tensions with Iran, leading to mounting concern on Capitol Hill that the administration is itching for war. This week, the United States announced plans to send an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East to counter Iran, after blaming the country for attacking oil tankers that belonged to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, and Norway. Iran denies any involvement in the attacks.
The Trump administration has called an Iranian strike on Americans in the Middle East “imminent,” and Iran has indicated that it may stop abiding by the 2015 nuclear arms deal (which Trump removed the United States from in 2018). This is the first time the House has successfully passed a repeal of the 2001 AUMF since it was enacted. The provision was attached to a government funding bill for the Departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.
It was an amendment brought forward by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), who notably was the only House lawmaker to vote against the war authorization in 2001 — a decision some have hailed as prescient. This bill is unlikely to go anywhere in the Senate, where Republicans led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hold the power. No House Republicans voted for the funding bill. That said, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has fought against Trump on war powers already once this year — over the war in Yemen. And there are already rumblings that the same coalition is ready to take a stand on Iran.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/19/18691936/house-democrats-vote-repeal-9-11-aumf-war-iran
What would be different this year vs back then is that in 2019, it was a rider and was passed under a GOP President, and this year it's a standalone bill under a Democratic President, and one that with Democrats controlling the Senate, would allow the assumption that Schumer would at least bring it up for consideration, whereas Turtle blocked just about everything that came from the House after the 2018 election.
Except for maybe a Libertarian like "FUCK RON PAUL'S EVIL SPAWN", and maybe a handful who are associated with the "problem solvers caucus" among the GOP, I would expect the rest of the GOP to be contrarian for spite. In fact, I'm sure they are trying hard to find some boogeyman to manufacture to justify keeping it in place - especially since I saw where Iran just had elections -
By Vivian Yee
June 19, 2021Updated 4:55 a.m. ET
TEHRAN — Iran’s ultraconservative judiciary chief, Ebrahim Raisi, looked certain to become the country’s next president on Saturday after an election that many voters skipped, seeing it as rigged in his favor.
The semiofficial news agency Fars, citing the head of the election commission, said that with 90 percent of the vote counted Mr. Raisi had won 17 million of the 28 million votes tabulated. Two rival candidates have conceded.
Huge swaths of moderate and liberal-leaning Iranians sat out the election, saying that the campaign had been engineered to put Mr. Raisi in office or that voting would make little difference. He had been expected to win handily despite late attempts by the more-moderate reformist camp to consolidate support behind their main candidate — Abdolnasser Hemmati, a former central bank governor.
There was no immediate word on voter turnout. But if 28 million votes amounted to 90 percent of the ballots cast, then only about 31 million people would have voted. That would be a significant decline from the last presidential election, in 2017.. The number of eligible voters is 59 million, according to Mehr, an official news agency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/world/middleeast/iran-election-president-raisi.html
The plan was also to drop bombs, then bomb some more, then keep bombing them with high explosives, all the while slaughtering innocent men women and children, destroying their infrastructure and turning the victims into jelly.
cuz they tried tuh kill his daddy
