Almost exactly 20 years after US forces invaded Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power, the US Senate moved Thursday to revoke the law that authorized then-president George W. Bush to launch the war.
In a procedural vote that came over a decade after the war's official end, senators from both parties strongly supported cancelling the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force , which empowered Bush to send US forces to Iraq.
"Every year we leave these AUMFs on the books is another year that a future administration can abuse them," he said.But, because it allows the president to order any actions seen as threatening to Iraqi democracy, it has been used to justify several military actions in the past decade, like allowing US troops in Iraq to retaliate against Iran-allied militias that have fired rockets at bases housing US troops.
"The biggest risk it presents is that people will use it more broadly," beyond Congress's original intent, Anderson said.
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