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Do not be fooled by Congress purporting to reclaim, at least in part, the war power by repealing the 1991 and 2002 AUMFs for Iraq.
Congress repealed the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that authorized the Vietnam War in 1971 with President Nixon’s signature. But President Nixon continued the war without breaking stride under the theory that the Constitution’s war power is entrusted to the White House not to Congress. President George H.W. Bush echoed Nixon as regards the 1991 AUMF to justify the war against Iraq in Kuwait: “I didn’t have to get permission from some old goat in Congress to kick Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.”
Every President since at least Harry Truman in Korea in 1950 has claimed and acted on the theory that the President can initiate war without congressional authorization, including President Biden who, among other things, has stated four times he would attack China if it invaded Taiwan. Unless Congress combines AUMF repeals with making presidential wars undeclared by Congress both a federal crime and impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors, they will be meaningless and give Congress an excuse to leave the vastly more important and alarming issue of an epidemic of unconstitutional presidential wars undisturbed.
Thus the importance of the Defend the Guard movement.
https://yesxorno.substack.com/p/defend-the-guard