Army Capt. Nathan Smith
Instead, more and more "boots" are being placed "on the ground" in Iraq and Syria all the time. Just because no one has said it's an official "war" doesn't make it anything less... and people aren't even paying attention anymore to whether or not the wars our government is waging are actually Constitutional or not.
Now an Army Captain with "ISIS Operation Inherent Resolve" stationed at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait has filed a lawsuit against his Commander-in-Chief over the Unconstitutional war Obama is waging against ISIS.
"To honor my oath, I am asking the court to tell the president that he must get proper authority from Congress, under the War Powers Resolution, to wage the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria," Army Capt. Nathan Michael Smith says in the 53-page document he filed today in the DC US District Court.
He contends that this war violates the War Powers Resolution, is illegal, and that Article II, section 2 of the Constitution does not authorize the president to initiate hostilities without a declaration of war or specific statutory authorization.
Stop the DAFT war!
For more than a decade, I have been trying to get peoples' attention on Public Law 107-40 (AUMF) which is the bane of our existence.
After all, it is obviously modeled after the Reichstag Fire Decree of 1933 Germany which gave Hitler almost unlimited powers to wage war, chaos and genocide.
We need to win the linguistic war. We need to use our term for this madness, and have it go viral.
This is the DAFT war, the Defense Against Future Terrorism war.
Stop the DAFT war!