- Nobody in the corporate media mentions it, but the war
in Afghanistan which President Barack Obama just ramped up by 50% this
year, with the dispatch, first of 17,000 troops last spring and now with
another 30,000 troops, to begin deployment on Christmas, is being fought
on the shaky legal basis of a hastily passed Authorization for the Use
of Military Force (AUMF) voted by Congress back in October 2001, more than
three years before Obama was even elected to the Senate.
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- That AUMF was the handiwork of President George W. Bush
and Vice President Dick Cheney, and it was rammed through House and Senate
with almost no debate in the wake of the 9-11 attacks and then used to
justify most of the subsequent assaults on the Constitution and Bill of
Rights that are still haunting America and the world today.
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