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<strong>President Obama just bombed Syria</strong>
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<p><em>Tell Congress:</em>
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<strong>"The American people deserve a vote on
war in Syria and that vote should be no. Call
an up-or-down vote on President Obama's new
war in the Middle East and stop the rush to
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<p>Dear Stuart,</p>
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<p><strong>President Obama dramatically escalated
his misguided war to "degrade and destroy" the
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) by
launching massive airstrikes in Syria this
week.</strong></p>
<p>Outrageously, the president launched this major
air offensive without first receiving
constitutionally required approval from
Congress. Congress must rein in President
Obama's illegal war in Iraq and Syria. Silence
is consent.</p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/syria_bombing?t=3&akid=11751.4881030.ZirPuu"><strong>Tell
Congress: Call an up-or-down vote on
President Obama's war in the Middle East,
then vote 'no' and stop the rush to war.</strong></a></p>
<p>President Obama's publicly stated position is
that he doesn't need authorization from Congress
to go to war with ISIS. Instead, he has claimed
that the outrageously broad 2001 Authorization
for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) -- passed
at the behest of George W. Bush just days after
the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 --
grants him sufficient authority to launch
airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.<sup>1</sup></p>
<p><strong>This is a dramatic flip-flop for
President Obama</strong>, who campaigned for
president on a platform that included winding
down George W. Bush's disastrous wars of choice
overseas, and last year called for the repeal of
the very same 2001 AUMF that he is now using to
justify bombing positions in Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p>Congress is widely expected to debate and vote
on whether to give President Obama the authority
to wage a sustained, multi-year war against ISIS
during the December "lame duck" session, once
the pressures of election season have subsided.
This will come in the form of a new
Authorization for the Use of Military Force.
Senator Dick Durbin has already announced that
the Senate will debate and vote on a new AUMF
for Iraq and Syria after the 2014 midterm
elections.</p>
<p>The truth is that it's going to be a steep
climb to convince Congress not to sign off on
President Obama's war. But <strong>the
expansion of airstrikes into Syria makes it
all the more urgent that we put pressure on
Congress right now not to rubberstamp another
costly, open-ended war in the Middle East.</strong>
Congress rejecting authorization is no guarantee
that the president will halt his war in Iraq and
Syria -- but it's the best shot we have.</p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/syria_bombing?t=4&akid=11751.4881030.ZirPuu"><strong>Tell
Congress: Call an up-or-down vote on
President Obama's war in the Middle East,
then vote 'no' and stop the rush to war.</strong></a></p>
<p>The war against ISIS is a war of choice. There
is no urgency driving an American response at
this moment. <strong>Even according to the
Department of Homeland Security, ISIS poses no
immediate threat to the United States.</strong></p>
<p>There is no immediate crisis as there was in
August when CREDO supported the emergency U.S.
air strikes that blocked the genocidal ISIS and
helped protect minorities by holding the Kurdish
defense line in Northern Iraq.<sup>2</sup> Since
then, the situation in Iraq has stabilized, and
Iraq has formed a new government, replacing the
corrupt and divisive former Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki. The civil war in Syria is stuck in a
bloody stalemate. The current media frenzy that
has been ginned up largely by chickenhawks from
the Bush administration and parroted by
politicians from both parties is not an adequate
justification for the United States to continue
its intervention in either Iraq or Syria.</p>
<p>The sad and simple truth is that, when it comes
to the current brutal conflict, rooted in
centuries of religious hostilities in Iraq and
Syria, there is no solution that American
leadership can offer. <strong>Given America's
history of waging wars of aggression and
covert operations in the region, American
military intervention will only make a
terrible situation even worse.</strong></p>
<p>A year ago progressives organized massive
pressure on Congress to stop a war with Syria --
and we won. We can do it again, but it's going
to take a truly massive outcry against the war.</p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Congress: Call an up-or-down vote on
President Obama's war in the Middle East,
then vote 'no' and stop the rush to war.</strong></a></p>
<p>Zack Malitz, Campaign Manager<br>
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Action from Working Assets</a>
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<p>1. Zack Malitz, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/6706?t=8&akid=11751.4881030.ZirPuu">"5
Things You Need to Know About the President's
Rush to War in Iraq and Syria,"</a> Huffington
Post, September 22, 2014<br>
2. Michael Kieschnick, president of CREDO
Mobile, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/6028?t=9&akid=11751.4881030.ZirPuu">"President
Obama Is Right to Block the Genocidal ISIS and
Hold the Kurdish Defense Line,"</a> Huffington
Post, August 8, 2014</p>
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