The Obama administration is pushing to pass their AUMF, an authorization for the use of military force against the "Islamic State" \u2013 a gang of thugs in a world of thugs that represents no particular threat to the United States. Yes, the War Party is going full blast with a propaganda campaign designed to drag us into yet another <\/i>bloody futile war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve been here before \u2013 remember? The last time they corralled us into a war in Iraq they handed us cock-and-bull stories about "weapons of mass destruction" and Saddam Hussein\u2019s nonexistent links to the 9\/11 attacks. This time they aren\u2019t bothering with any of that: it\u2019s just pure horror stories plus the laughable contention that ISIL represents a credible threat to the US homeland. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s time for a preemptive strike at the War Party\u2019s congressional fortress. Please call your congressional representative today <\/a><\/i><\/b>and urge them to vote no on the AUMF<\/b><\/a> \u2013 because we can win this one. We stopped them last time when Obama decided it was time to bomb Syria. One by one members of Congress who were inclined to authorize that military campaign backed away when faced with a deluge of outraged calls from constituents. We can do it again \u2013 oh yes we can<\/i>! <\/p>\n Please make that call today<\/a> \u2013 because the future of this country, not to mention the peace of the world, depends on it.<\/p>\n And we need your help to stop this war before it starts. Your tax-deductible donation<\/a> to Antiwar.com will give us the resources to stop the well-funded War Party in its tracks \u2013 but we can do it without you! Make your contribution today \u2013 because the future of our country. and the peace of the world, depends on it.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Obama administration is pushing to pass their AUMF, an authorization for the use of military force against the "Islamic State" \u2013 a gang of thugs in a world of thugs that represents no particular threat to the United States. Yes, the War Party is going full blast with a propaganda campaign designed to drag […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-24899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24901,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24899\/revisions\/24901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24899"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}