Kaine says Clinton would seek updated war-making powers

Yahoo News ^ | 24 October 2016 | Olivier Knox

[Lorianne]

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine said in an interview published Monday that, if elected, Hillary Clinton would quickly ask Congress for fresh legal authority to make war on the so-called Islamic State and other terrorist groups around the world.

“Hillary has said that that’s something she wants to do very early in her administration,” the Virginia senator said. He made his remarks in an interview with “The Axe Files,” hosted by David Axelrod, a former top adviser to President Obama.

Kaine said the former secretary of state will press lawmakers to rewrite the Sept. 14, 2001, Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) that set the stage for the invasion of Afghanistan and has underpinned the entire war on terrorism. Obama has invoked the measure to argue that his undeclared but escalating war on ISIS is legal, a position Kaine had previously dismissed as an “Alice in Wonderland” strategy.

Clinton believes that “it’s time for us to take that now-outdated authorization, and really think about what we are confronting, and work together to reach some legislative-executive accord about what it is we’re doing,” Kaine told Axelrod. “It’s time for Congress to get back in the game and refine and revise that authorization.”

[Signalman]

Retaliation for being attacked. Is that war?

If that was the case, he would have attacked Saudi Arabia. Not Iraq.

[SaveFerris]

I think Hillary said this stuff to “look tough”.

What it showed, if anyone was paying attention, (and a few of us were) that they seek war not just among terrorists (re: debates) but a war with Russia over Syria being toppled like Libya.

And the little high-school and college protestors marching don’t even know how quickly it could affect them were they to reinstate the draft.

[castlegreyskull]

I thought Hillary’s rhetoric towards Russia was reckless. She kept making baseless accusations against them, that would be acts of war if true.

[SaveFerris]

Yes very reckless and dangerously insane for nothing more than political gamesmanship. We still have two months or so of BamBam to go. Keep those prayers going up.