Posted on 05/17/2013 7:22:47 AM PDT by haffast
The US is no closer to the end of its “war on terror” than before, even after having beheaded al-Qaeda in the 2011 operation that wiped out the terror group’s leader Osama Bin Laden. Now a senior Pentagon official has predicted another 20 years of the mission against al-Qaeda.
Speaking to the Senate Armed Services early Thursday, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations Michael Sheehan said the Pentagon wasn’t yet planning to wrap up its “war on terror.” When asked how long it might take the US to beat down terrorists, the official said: “At least 10 to 20 years.”
The Senate committee on Thursday lashed out against Michael Sheehan over these prospects and the fact that the Bush-era anti-terror bill called the Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) gave its commander-in-chief overboard powers that justified a widening war against insurgents, reaching out as far as to Yemen and Somalia.
In 2012, the National Defense Authorization Act updated this law to grant the President power not just to target overseas terrorists, but suspects believed to be “associated forces.”
Sen. Angus King stressed Thursday the AUMF was kept in place largely because it justified a war that would otherwise be illegal.
“You guys have invented this term, associated forces, that’s nowhere in this document…It’s the justification for everything, and it renders the war powers of Congress null and void,” Mr. King said. “[The AUMF] does suit you well because you’re reading it to fit everything, and it doesn’t, the general rule of war applies.” he added.
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Correct.
The “War on Terror” is and has been a fraud since the beginning. After 9/11 Bush kept the borders wideopen, shipped in hundreds of thousands of Muslims, and maintained close relationships with most fundamentalist dictatorships in the Middle East, foremost being Saudi Arabia. The DHS, TSA, Patriot Act, NDAA, militarization and federalization of local police, Fusion centers, warrantless spying, etc. was never for Al Qaeda boogiemen, who the US taxpayer is funding and arming to attack Syria, it was always meant to go after the American people. The phony War on Terror is propaganda meant scare the American people in giving up their liberty for illusory security.
I disagree. We lost when we forced our Service men and women to wear white gloves when handing out Korans to terrorists at GITMO. I think that happened well before the above mentioned date.
Sorry, Sen. Unless you wipe 1 billion people out,.......
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