Congress Actually Does Something Good
June 21, 2021
I know you are just as shocked as I am. The House last week voted 268-161 to revoke the 2002 authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) that authorized the immoral, unjust, and unnecessary war in Iraq. Forty-nine Republicans and 219 Democrats voted in favor of the repeal bill (H.R.256). Only one Democrat voted against repeal, Rep. Elaine G. Luria of Virginia. This means that 160 Republican House members are still bloodthirsty neocon warmongers. I note also that the House voted in favor of repeal last year as well, but the Trump administration opposed the bill and the Republican-controlled Senate never voted on it.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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