[GeronL]

He really wants to be dictator

[cableguymn]

illegal??

who’s gonna stop him?

[Pearls Before Swine]

“Bush made me do it.”

[Gay State Conservative]

Any idea what Osama might have said about this while in the Senate...or during the ‘08 campaign?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Congress will not support the Kenyan’s pathetic “plan”. Except for idiots like Boehner.

[ryan71]

Republicans shouldn’t fight this. They should take it a step further. Declare war on the Islamic State! Put the declaration on obama’s desk! Then let’s see if he is serious about killing non-ilamic islamists.

[SandRat]

Anything he does is Illegal.

[Hoodat]

Apparently President Obama thinks he can use the authorization given to President George W. Bush in 2001 to go after al Qaeda.

Then he obviously hasn't read the Authorization, which basically holds Iraq accountable for violating the cease fire agreement of 1991.

[silverleaf]

Liberal chant: War! What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing!

Obama needs a “kinetic military action authorization”
as long as he can send other people’s kids over there to do whatever screwy thing his harvard military planners think the military is supposed to be able to do

This might be a good time to put Hagel’s first LGBQT unit into action on the frontline

[oldbrowser]

“On its face this is an implausible argument because the 2001 AUMF requires a nexus to al Qaeda or associated forces of al Qaeda fighting the United States,” said Robert Chesney, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law. “Since ISIS broke up with al Qaeda it’s hard to make that argument.”

So, Obama is using the authorization to fight Al Qaeda to attack the enemy of Al Qaeda. Thus providing support for Al Qaeda?

The Sunnis who we were protecting against the Shia genocide are now butchering the Shia. We are now on the Shia (and Iran) side against the people we were previously defending?

Both sides seem to hate us as well as each other.

[JoanneSD]

democrats are not at war with ISIS, the only war they claim is the republicans WAR on women..

[gunnyg]

shame???
as you were!

[BulletBobCo]

That’s like wanting to use an old condom on a different date.

[Dahoser]

And, of course, then he can blame Bush.

[God luvs America]

ironic- a month and a half ago he sent a letter to Boehner demanding repeal of the Iraqi War Authorization:

“The Obama administration is calling on Congress to fully repeal the war authorization in Iraq to ensure that no U.S. troops return to the country, which is under siege by the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS).”

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/white-house-wants-repeal-of-iraq-war-authorization/

[TomGuy]

For the same reason he campaigns against his own policies — he doesn’t want HIS name associated with a War Authorization.

That way, he can still blame Bush, while claiming now and in the future that HE never authorized the war.

Also, if it turns into an even worse mess than he made of Iraq, he can disassociate HIMSELF from the results.

[Iron Munro]

It's probably a good thing that Obama isn't mad at the Japanese.

[Rockitz]

God forbid that he soil his Nobel Peace Prize with a nasty war on his record.

[Cubs Fan]

[Defiant]

This is literally insane. The leftists, including Obama, insisted that Bush needed a NEW authorization to go into Iraq, even though the original authorization was arguably broad enough to include Iraq. So Bush said, OK, and got an authorization for Iraq, which infuriated leftists like Hillary and Kerry, because they were forced to vote FOR it.

To say that it authorizes a new action in Iraq not only contradicts those prior positions (which I believe would have been stated by Obama, too, although he was a state senator in Illinois at the time), but it is also no longer viable, given that Obama has declared the Iraq war ended, and has pulled out all the troops that were there previously. To rely on the 2001 authorization would be to use logic that would also allow him to attach Japan and Germany under the December 8, 1941 declaration of war.