US, UK approves strikes on Syria

[exploited]

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Like it already did, ten years ago.

[JDHURF]

[spacemonkey]

Screw Assad. That POS should be grateful he is still allowed to breath.

[Spider]

Hurf, the AUMF doesn't supersede the constitution. The POTUS remains the CiC regardless, and this sort of action is well within the proper powers of that office.

[JDHURF]

I didn't claim that the AUMF superseded the constitution. The POTUS as CiC still requires Congressional authorization to use military force against another nation regardless. Further, it was illegal under international law. To use military force against a sovereign state requires the permission of the Security Council.

[Spider]

Actually. no. The CiC doesn't require congressional approval to fire on Syria. He can simply make a phone call and fire the missiles. He doesn't even have to tell them about it. You can tell because we just attacked Syria. What is required from Congress is continued funding to maintain an already deployed force. But we didn't send any boots anywhere. Just pushed buttons and fired missiles. All nations have the sovereign ability to use their militaries to attack each other as they please, regardless of paper and ink. The Security Council isn't part of the US military's chain of command. Crying "That's illegal!" doesn't amount to much. The missiles have already been fired.

People cry about the illegality of country's fighting each on a pretty much continuous basis every time swords cross or something gets blown up or whatever. Doesn't matter. Happens anyways.

[Tragic KingdomIIII]

The reasoning behind these annual strikes that hit empty military installations is dubious. Hard to see what this accomplishes. How many of the 500,000 Syrians killed in the civil war died as a result of chemical weapons? The humanitarian argument is pretty weak here.

[JDHURF]

[JDHURF]

Such a shitfire. Trump is so worried about the plight of the Syrian civilians targeted with suspected chemical weapons he's banned all of them from the United States and evidently the strike in 2017 was so effective it required being done again. I'm just sure that these illegal strikes have successfully resolved the Syrian civil war.

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Bunch of f**k clowns.

[John Galt]

it was accomplished under Bush though at that point, i.e, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." the banner was a bit much as apparently people think someone saying "we got into the playoffs" is the same as "we won the stanley cup" but that's all it said: the mission was accomplished (ending the iraqi regime). the mission was accomplished, the parts that were bad optics were the flight suit and the banner. the words were correct though. and if the mission met its goals in syria, then it is correct to say mission accomplished

they didn't use the weapons for a year. i think it was pretty effective in 2017. if they launch tomorrow then it will be to spit in his face, but it would end them