[Peace] petition: "President Obama just bombed Syria" - call for a Congressional vote and stop the rush to war

[Stuart Levy via Peace]

Good for Credo.   I signed this.   Meanwhile Obama speaks to the UN 
about the need for more war...

CREDO action
*President Obama just bombed Syria*

/Tell Congress:/
*"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 war."*

Add your name:

Sign the petition ► 
<http://act.credoaction.com/sign/syria_bombing?t=1&akid=11751.4881030.ZirPuu> 


Dear Stuart,

<http://act.credoaction.com/sign/syria_bombing?nosig=1&t=2&akid=11751.4881030.ZirPuu> 


*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.*

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.

*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.* 
<http://act.credoaction.com/sign/syria_bombing?t=3&akid=11751.4881030.ZirPuu>

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.^1

*This is a dramatic flip-flop for President Obama*, 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.

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.

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 *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.* 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.

*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.* 
<http://act.credoaction.com/sign/syria_bombing?t=4&akid=11751.4881030.ZirPuu>

The war against ISIS is a war of choice. There is no urgency driving an 
American response at this moment. *Even according to the Department of 
Homeland Security, ISIS poses no immediate threat to the United States.*

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.^2 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.

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. *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.*

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.

*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.* 
<http://act.credoaction.com/sign/syria_bombing?t=5&akid=11751.4881030.ZirPuu>

Zack Malitz, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets 
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/109?t=6&akid=11751.4881030.ZirPuu>

Add your name:

Sign the petition ► 
<http://act.credoaction.com/sign/syria_bombing?t=7&akid=11751.4881030.ZirPuu> 


1. Zack Malitz, "5 Things You Need to Know About the President's Rush to 
War in Iraq and Syria," 
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/6706?t=8&akid=11751.4881030.ZirPuu> 
Huffington Post, September 22, 2014
2. Michael Kieschnick, president of CREDO Mobile, "President Obama Is 
Right to Block the Genocidal ISIS and Hold the Kurdish Defense Line," 
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/6028?t=9&akid=11751.4881030.ZirPuu> 
Huffington Post, August 8, 2014

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