{"id":23545,"date":"2017-04-14T07:48:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T12:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23545"},"modified":"2017-04-14T07:48:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T12:48:25","slug":"if-youre-wondering-why-trump-can-just-bomb-countries-ask-obama-bush-and-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23545","title":{"rendered":"If You\u2019re Wondering Why Trump Can Just Bomb Countries, Ask Obama, Bush, and Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If You\u2019re Wondering Why Trump Can Just Bomb Countries, Ask Obama, Bush, and Clinton<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)<\/b>\u00a0If you read closely between the warped headlines of the establishment media<\/a>, you will eventually find the truth about Trump\u2019s decision to strike the Syrian government: it was illegal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet most mainstream media outlets clearly supported<\/a> the strike. Many U.S. allies also supported the strike, including so-called peaceful countries such as New Zealand<\/a>, which stated<\/a> the strikes were a \u201cproportional response to a specific incident \u2013 the chemical weapons atrocity.\u201d<\/i> New Zealand also said they would consider sending troops to Syria if the American government requested them.<\/p>\n

Why isn\u2019t the legality of Trump\u2019s reckless move even on the table for discussion?<\/p>\n

Is it because this is, yet again, no exception to the rule that \u2014 as history<\/a> has shown us \u2014 the United States president has the ultimate right and authority to lead his country into war without congressional approval or approval from the United Nations?<\/p>\n

How did this happen?<\/p>\n

Following the wars in Vietnam and Korea, the War Powers Resolution<\/a> was passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate in 1973 as a means of curbing the ways by which the U.S. government could enter a war. Under the act, congressional approval must be obtained<\/a> before the American president can commit the country to war. However, the fact that the president still has the power to launch a war for a 60-day period, following notification to Congress of the decision to commit U.S. armed forces to military action, still raises some questions regarding its effective application.<\/p>\n

In 1999, under the presidency of Bill Clinton, the United States participated in NATO\u2019s air war, which we were told was necessary in order to stop the Serbian ethnic cleansing campaign in Kosovo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If You\u2019re Wondering Why Trump Can Just Bomb Countries, Ask Obama, Bush, and Clinton (ANTIMEDIA)\u00a0If you read closely between the warped headlines of the establishment media, you will eventually find the truth about Trump\u2019s decision to strike the Syrian government: it was illegal. Yet most mainstream media outlets clearly supported the strike. Many U.S. allies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8803,4873,3741,14444,7844,584,10522,827],"class_list":["post-23545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-antimedia","tag-bush","tag-clinton","tag-darius-shahtahmasebi","tag-donald-trump","tag-obama","tag-trump","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23546,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23545\/revisions\/23546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}