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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Progressive: 10 Questions about Obama’s Iraq Bombing
http://www.progressive.org/news/2014/08/187814/10-questions-about-obama%E2%80%99s-iraq-bombing1. Is it constitutional? Only Congress has the right to declare war. Under what authority is President Obama sending U.S. warplanes back to Iraq?
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5. President Obama cites the humanitarian crisis of the Yazidis. And yes, it is a crisis. But there are other humanitarian crises around the worldin Syria, in the Congo, in the Ukraine. Why Iraq and not the others?
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7. What role is oil playing in all this? As Steve Coll writes in The New Yorker, ExxonMobil and Chevron are among the many oil and gas firms large and small drilling in Kurdistan under contracts that compensate the companies for their political risk-taking with unusually favorable terms.
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10. What credibility does the United States have to claim its now on a humanitarian mission in Iraq to save innocent lives when it killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives from 2003-2011?
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5. President Obama cites the humanitarian crisis of the Yazidis. And yes, it is a crisis. But there are other humanitarian crises around the worldin Syria, in the Congo, in the Ukraine. Why Iraq and not the others?
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7. What role is oil playing in all this? As Steve Coll writes in The New Yorker, ExxonMobil and Chevron are among the many oil and gas firms large and small drilling in Kurdistan under contracts that compensate the companies for their political risk-taking with unusually favorable terms.
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10. What credibility does the United States have to claim its now on a humanitarian mission in Iraq to save innocent lives when it killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives from 2003-2011?
Funny, but I don't recall any of the Republicans complaining that Obama is subverting the Constitution. You'd think they'd be all over this, except for the fact they they just love war,war and more war. Also, sending American service men and women into the meat grinder to ensure Big Oil's profits is right in their sweet spot.
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The Progressive: 10 Questions about Obama’s Iraq Bombing (Original Post)
Scuba
Aug 2014
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(50,983 posts)1. Kicked and recommended!
Thanks, Scuba.
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(525 posts)3. Very good questions!!!!
bvar22
(39,909 posts)4. Senator Obama, December 20, 2007
[font size=3]The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. [/font]
---Senator Obama, 12-20-2007