THE RUN AROUND DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO IGNORES THE PROCESS FOR USING MILITARY POWERS AS IT ORDERS BOMBING OF ISIS IN IRAQ UNDER THE WARS POWER ACT–THE DEMOCRAT DOUBLE TALKS OF CONGRESSIONAL LAWS TO WAGE A WAR WITH A VOTE RESOLUTION AND THE DEMOCRAT POTUS STARTS A WAR WITHOUT ONE–SINCE THE DEMOCRATS HAVE CLAIMED MISSION ACCOMPLISHED IN IRAQ WITH THE BUG OUT POLICY AND WHAT DID WE GET FOR THE SACRIFICES–MORE TERRORISTS DOING GENOCIDE ON THE INNOCENT IN THE NAME OF THE PIECE OF RELIGION ISLAM–WILL THE DEMOCRATS DO THE HUSH HUSH BEFORE THE MIDTERM ELECTION IS OVER

Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (Vt.), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, told The Hill Friday that Congress should have a full debate over whether to continue limited military action in Iraq.

Sanders acknowledged that insurgents in the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) pose a threat, but worries that U.S. intervention could become a slippery slope. 

“I do not want to see us caught again in a ground war,” he said. “I do believe there needs to be a heck a lot of discussion in the Congress as to what our long-term plans in Iraq and in the region.” 

House Democrats have also pressed for Obama to seek congressional approval if strikes last well into the fall. 

But many other lawmakers would prefer not to take up this charged issue weeks before an election.

“A member of Congress is always most politically safe if they limit their activities to riding in parades,” acknowledged Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.).

“One of the many reasons Congress doesn’t act is because it’s politically risky to take any action at all,” he added.

But Sherman argues it is Congress’s responsibility to hold a vote.

“We do have a constitution, we ought to [have a vote] in a non-partisan way,” he said.

In the letter Obama sent to Congress notifying them of the strikes under the War Powers Act, the president said U.S. action would be limited.

Under the act, the president can take limited actions for as long as 90 days without congressional authority. 

In June, Democratic Reps. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) and Colleen Hanabusa (D-Hawaii) added an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that requires the administration to seek the advice and consent of Congress before sustained military action in Iraq. The bill passed 340-73.

Jens Ohlin, a law professor at Cornell University who specializes in international law, said Obama must receive congressional permission if we wants to extend military action beyond the 60-day window and the 30-day wind-down period provided by the War Powers Act.

He said the action cannot be covered by the 2002 Iraqi use-of-force resolution of the 2001 resolution authorizing force in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

“I don’t think you can shoehorn this into the original Iraq invasion authorization because it’s just so far removed from the original Iraqi invasion and I don’t think you can shoehorn it into the 2001 AUMF [authorization of military force] which was specifically designed to respond to organizations responsible for the 9/11 attacks,” he said.

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