Reid Backs Efforts to Unravel 9-11 AUMF - instrument of the unbridled WH 'War(s) on Terror'

Jacob Fischler ?@ItsFischy 10m
Harry Reid Backs Reexamination Of Post-9/11 Military Authorization Law http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/harry-reid-backs-reexamination-of-authorization-of-military … via @dcbigjohn & @katenocera


WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Wednesday backed bipartisan efforts to reexamine the controversial law passed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that opened the door to the ever expanding “war on terror.”

“It’s easy to be a Monday morning quarterback, but 9/11 was a very difficult time in the history of this country,” said Reid, who voted for the law in 2001.

“But I definitely think its something we should definitely take a look at. I think 9/11 is a long time ago, and it’s something that needs to be looked at again. I have no problem with that,” Reid added.

“We are still operating in a war declared on Sept. 14, 2001,” Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine said Wednesday during a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “And both the Bush and Obama administrations have determined that that war can be carried out against members of al Qaeda, against anyone who associates with affiliates or associates of al Qaeda, no matter when those associates pop up … so long as the al Qaeda or affiliated organizations have violent intentions against the U.S. or coalition partners. That’s sort of a vague phrase.”

“I don’t think Congress passing that AUMF Sept. 14, 2001, that 13 years later we’d be still engaged in war,” Kaine added . . .


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