Army Captain Sues Obama Over War Authorization

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24 points·joelx··6 comments

After the refined-twitter post[1], I'm really starting to think I should change my user agent string. The Times mobile site is also dramatically better than their desktop site..

hmm....

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11631157

Well there's a career that's over.

Next transfer will be somewhere very very cold.

I thought there was a ruling you can't sue a sitting President?

Why does this fall on an officer in the Army, why doesn't Congress actually realize it needs to pass authorization? Every year there is some excuse. Too busy re-naming post offices that they are trying to put out of business.

Why bother authorizing a war and have blood on your hands?

Using that logic, why pass anything at all through congress.

Oh wait.

Fat chance that this will inconvenience Obama or the next president over in regard to the ISIS one bit.

Actually asking elected representatives to support war can yield surprising results, not just then but later. You could argue that Obama's initial vote against the Iraq war was crucial in winning him the nomination in 2008. Now of course his White House says the war he voted against gives him authority to do something he thought they shouldn't do in the first place, but let's just call that an interesting development.

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