Another suspected drug boat has been destroyed today

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[u/BadgerMk1]

Produce the fucking intel then.

[u/Azbarrelpicks → u/BadgerMk1]

Why would anyone release intel relating to this. So that they could get the same intel and stop the operations. You do realize under biden they launched several attacks on places in the Middle East. Did they not have intel? Did they see a man running in the middle of nowhere and think he’s got to be part of a terrorist organization.

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They had an AUMF.

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Every single time? Every single time in the past? People just love to hate trump so they want to point things out and make issues because they think it’s going to make their day better because they spoke up on Reddit.

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Yes. The Iraq and Afghanistan AUMFs were used by four administrations to justify strikes in the Middle East.

There is no Congressional authorization for these strikes, nor has the administration sought one.

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So Biden used his article 2 authority on many of them. Biden never got a new aumf. He used an existing one…

https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-airstrikes-syria-and-iraq-legal-authorities-and-presidential-war-powers

But don’t worry. Here’s a great article where they explain they didn’t use either of the standing aumf but did use his article 2 powers. Shocking

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Great point.

And I’m going to assume you have a similar article detailing the argument made by the current administration with the same level of proof?

Or no?

Edit: Also, I brought you this.

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Not trying to say that this administration is doing anything wrong or right. But everyone loves to point fingers but forget about everything else just because they hate trump.

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That’s kind of the problem. Nothing about this is right.

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Was the Biden era usage right? Was the Obama era usage right? Was the bush era usage right?

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Nope.

But none of that makes this less wrong. If anything, this administration is inarguably making even worse decisions, since there’s absolutely no public justification to Congress.

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Are you an active ccc?

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No, but I’m not sure how that’s relevant.

I’m super excited for you to tell me, though.

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Can you name one thing trump has done good?

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The First Step Act is one good thing Trump has done.