House bill seeks to rescind Iraq war authorization

[cal04]

A piece of legislation sponsored by Democrats in the House of Representatives seeks to withdraw authorization for President George W. Bush to make war in Iraq, RAW STORY has learned.

An excerpt of the subscribers-only story is available below.
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/52_15/news/14580-1.html

So far, 22 House Members — all of them Democrats who have been leading figures in the out-of-Iraq movement — have signed on to the Iraq War Powers Repeal Act of 2006, introduced July 25 by Rep. Lynn Woolsey (Calif.).

Woolsey’s bill, H.R. 5875, would declare that the United States has been engaged in an occupation of Iraq for more than three years — since President Bush’s May 1, 2003, pronouncement that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended” — that has weakened America militarily and economically, diminished its role in the world and provoked a bloody and ongoing civil war in Iraq.

In stating that it is U.S. policy to end the occupation, the bill would rescind the resolution, pushed through Congress in the run-up to the 2002 midterm elections, that originally authorized Bush to commit American forces to Iraq.

“It’s become very clear that we’re not in war,” Woolsey explained last week. “We’re occupying Iraq and the president never came to us and asked us for permission.”

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/House_bill_seeks_to_rescind_Iraq_0801.html

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Nope, can't have that happen. Besides,

once you give the boy king his imperial war powers and magic signing statements scepter, he will never relinquish them. Ever.

[Lowell]

2. If they had done their job in the first place

we probably wouldn't be in this mess. The congress is constitutionally responsible for the war powers, yet they have abrogated this duty for decades.