Posted on Mar 26, 2023
Congress revisits approval for Iraq invasion, recalling change of heart on Vietnam
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https://www.npr.org/2023/03/25/ [login to see] /congress-repeal-iraq-war-aumf-vietnam
In the coming weeks, both chambers of Congress are expected to debate and vote on a bill repealing the authority that Congress gave President George W. Bush to use force against Iraq.
It has been more than half a century since Congress repealed a similar resolution. That was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964, which had allowed then-President Lyndon Johnson to escalate the conflict in Vietnam.
That war ultimately cost more than 55,000 American lives and many times that many Vietnamese lives, destabilizing the entire region.
We will return to that precedent in a moment. For now, Congress is focused on the fallout from its decision to greenlight a war with Iraq in October 2002. The U.S. and its allies invaded and occupied Iraq the following March. It was 20 years ago this month.
In the coming weeks, both chambers of Congress are expected to debate and vote on a bill repealing the authority that Congress gave President George W. Bush to use force against Iraq.
It has been more than half a century since Congress repealed a similar resolution. That was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964, which had allowed then-President Lyndon Johnson to escalate the conflict in Vietnam.
That war ultimately cost more than 55,000 American lives and many times that many Vietnamese lives, destabilizing the entire region.
We will return to that precedent in a moment. For now, Congress is focused on the fallout from its decision to greenlight a war with Iraq in October 2002. The U.S. and its allies invaded and occupied Iraq the following March. It was 20 years ago this month.
Congress revisits approval for Iraq invasion, recalling change of heart on Vietnam
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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Just because someone has a clearance doesn't mean they have a need to know. Also just because someone had a clearance, doesn't mean they get to talk about every classified thing they were part of unless the other party is cleared onto it.
You do realize that not just generals retire or ETS with a clearance right? By that logic, every single person who is in a 35 series MOS shouldn't be able to do that type of work when they get out or keep their clearance. Or anyone who had a Secret shouldn't get to keep it.
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