Can They ‘Repeal’ The Dead? Ask Orwell.

Yesterday the US Senate repealed the Iraq 2002 ‘Authorization for the Use of Military Force’

by Dennis Kucinich, The Dennis Kucinich Report

Yesterday the US Senate repealed the Iraq 2002 ‘Authorization for the Use of Military Force’ (AUMF), in which, at the behest of the Bush Administration, the U.S. licensed itself to attack the people of Iraq, and, with a fusillade of pressure-packed, hysteria driven lies, dragged along a tricked-up international “coalition of the willing.”

The 2002 AUMF, now otherwise known as an official, categorical, murderous lie, passed twenty years ago, by a Senate vote of 77-23.

Yesterday’s repeal basically said: ‘We repeal the AUMF.’  That’s it. No explanation in the bill as to why.  No preamble which recited the litany of lies which Congress bought lock, stock and two smoking barrels. The deaths of one million innocent Iraqis didn’t rate so much as a mention in the repeal.

No apology was made to the people of Iraq. No apologies to the families of dead and injured U.S. soldiers. No mention of the war’s on-going cost to U.S. taxpayers, the amount now approaching five trillion dollars.

Opposition to the repeal even focused on the possibility of having to use the same AUMF again, this time against Iran in defense of Iraq. You read that right.  The Senate also repealed a 1991 gobbledegook resolution that authorized military action against Iraq. The bill now moves onto the House of Representatives.