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Senator on Islamic State fight: 3,300 bombing runs — and Congress still won’t call a war a warSource: ReutersREUTERS 07 MAY 2015 AT 10:40 ET Congress’ failure to even debate U.S. military action against Islamic State nine months after air strikes began is scandalous and disrespectful to Americans fighting an undeclared war, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine said on Thursday. Kaine, a Democratic member of the Foreign Relations Committee, has been an unrelenting critic of Congress’ failure to authorize military force against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, even as a U.S.-led bombing campaign has been in effect since Aug. 8. In media interviews before a Senate speech on Thursday, Kaine outlined reasons for the delay, including congressional reluctance to take up the matter before elections last November. “American service members have lost their lives, we’ve spent over $2 billion, 3,300 bombing runs and Congress hasn’t even been willing to talk about this or authorize the military action,†Kaine said on CNN. “This is a big scandal in my view.†He said it was disrespectful to ask American service members to risk their lives when Congress would not even debate the mission. -snip-Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/senator-on-islamic-state-fight-3300-bombing-runs-and-congress-still-wont-call-a-war-a-war/
Congress’ failure to even debate U.S. military action against Islamic State nine months after air strikes began is scandalous and disrespectful to Americans fighting an undeclared war, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine said on Thursday. Kaine, a Democratic member of the Foreign Relations Committee, has been an unrelenting critic of Congress’ failure to authorize military force against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, even as a U.S.-led bombing campaign has been in effect since Aug. 8.
More than a dozen years after Congress authorized the use of military force against nations, groups or individuals involved in or aiding the perpetrators of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine said it's time to rethink that open-ended declaration. The authorization, passed by Congress three days after the attacks that killed 2,977 people in New York City, Washington, D.C., and rural Pennsylvania, has been used by the last two presidents to broaden the war on terrorism beyond those involved in 9/11 - to seek out their affiliates wherever military leaders deem necessary. Kaine said during a visit to his Virginia Beach office Wednesday that he and several other senators believe the authorization needs limits and a new congressional review. The Virginia Democrat and other legislators are questioning the extension of the U.S. war on terror into future decades based solely on a vote made days after the 2001 attacks.
