"Wary of a War Vote"

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"Wary of a War Vote"
By Dave Lefcourt
OpEdNews Op Eds 9/10/2014 at 13:12:35

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Writing this piece condemning Congress feels so redundant but after reading this mornings article, "Congress wary of war vote, Many unwilling to weigh in on Islamic State", by Tribune staff writers Lisa Mascaro and Michael A. Memoli in today's Baltimore Sun article was just too "juicy" to pass up.

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As we know up to this point "Dear leader" has sent American bombers, attack helicopters and drones attacking the Islamic State in northern Iraq on "authority" by the new unelected government in Baghdad "asking" him to intervene; a "government" by the way that came to power when President Nouri al-Maliki was conveniently removed by the Iraqi parliament-something Washington wanted so "miraculously" al-Maliki was gone from the scene and America is back at war in Iraq and soon to be Syria. As for the latter there's been no authorization for America to go to war in Syria from President Bashar al Assad, but hey we're America, what's to stop us, certainly not Congress.

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Rep. Peter King R.-N.Y. apparently representing the "mood" in Congress said, "I think it's better if Congress would give approval, but I think it's better to do it after the fact". How's that for Congressional "action"?

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All our wars since have been undeclared, "Police Actions" as in Korea in 1950, "false flag" provocations as in the phony "Gulf of Tonkin incident in Viet Nam in 1965 and the subsequent "Gulf of Tonkin" resolution by Congress that President Lyndon Johnson used to justify escalating the war in Viet Nam or the subterfuge George W. Bush engineered after the 9/11 attacks to get Congress to authorize the president "to use all means" to get the perpetrators thus initiating the "global war on terror" in Afghanistan, two years later using the same post 9/11 authorization to invade Iraq and later the drone and missile attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia; on and on it goes with Congress essentially mute.