I dropped HULU which I used for live TV. It was a smart move. I dropped it about five or six months ago (I think it was that long ago -- seems like it was around August or September). I replaced it with YOUTUBE TV. I really enjoy it so much better.
Wylie e-mailed asking if YOUTUBE TV really has unlimited Cloud? Yes. It doesn't stay there forever. Some of the movies and TV shows come with an expiration date of a year, for example. But in my Cloud movie wise, I have a ton of movies. Here's a list of some (I'll list as many as I can before I get tired).
1) THE FRONT
2) SPARKLE (1976)
3) PSYCHO
4) THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993)
5) NOW, VOYAGER
6) THE STAR
7) THE LADY EVE
8) IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
9) SOMETHING WILD
10) LOVE AND DEATH
11) THE WOMAN IN RED
12) SWEET DREAMS
13) JUMPING JACK FLASH
14) DEATH BECOMES HER
15) SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS
16) SHADOWS AND FOG
17) LITTLE CHILDREN
18) LOVEFIELD
19) X-MEN FIRST-CLASS
20) AND-MAN AND THE WASP
21) JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN
22) PILLOW TALK
23) PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
24) PROTOCOL
25) LOGAN
26) SWING SHIFT
27) DOWN TO EARTH (Rita Hayworth version, not sure of the year)
28) CACTUS FLOWER
29) BEST FRIENDS
30) THERE'S A GIRL IN MY SOUP
31) BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE
32) SHAMPOO
33) FIRST WIVES CLUB
34) FOUL PLAY
35) SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES
36) THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
37) HOUSESITTER
38) CRISSCROSS
39) DOLLARS
40) THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968)
41) SYLVIA SCARLETT
42) TOPPER
43) BRINGING UP BABY
44) HIS GIRL FRIDAY
45) ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
46) THE TALK OF THE TOWN
47) BUGSY
48) TO CATCH A THIEF
49) ROOM FOR ONE MORE
50) MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947)
51) THE FORTUNE
52) MCCABE & MRS. MILLER
53) MORE THAN A MIRACLE
54) RAMONA (1928)
55) FLYING DOWN TO RIO
56) RECKLESS (1935)
57) LIBELED LADY
58) REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
59) SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL
60) PENELOPE
61) GYPSY
62) LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER
63) THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED
64) INSIDE DAISY CLOVER
65) THE GREAT RACE
66) SIDE EFFECTS
67) THE BIG YEAR
68) THE FAMILY STONE
69) BEDAZZLED (2000)
70) MATCHPOINT
71) MOTHERLESS BROOLYN
72) THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
73) SOME LIKE IT HOT
74) JOJO RABBIT
75) GOOD BOYS
76) RAISING ARIZONZ
77) IN HER SHOES
78) CONTAGION
79) BRIDESMAIDS
80) THE SKULLS
81) DIE HARD
82) UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (1948)
83) THE JUDGE (2014)
84) THE ITALIAN JOB (2003)
85) ALL FALL DOWN
86) ENEMY OF THE STATE
87) DECEPTION (1946)
88) TOUCH OF EVIL
89) CRAZY STUPID LOVE
90) IN SECRET
91) SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
92) LYING AND STEALING
93) THE YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE
94) LOVE THE COOPERS
95) PURPLE NOON
96) RED SUN
97) ONCE A THIEF (1965)
98) HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL
99) THE GODSON
100) ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS
101) L'ECLISSE
102) THE LADY VANISHES (1938)
103) IN LIKE FLINT
104) THE 39 STEPS (1935)
105) LOST COMMAND
106) STAGE FRIGHT
107) SUSPICION
108) FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
109) HEARTBREAKERS
110) SWEET CHARITY
111) TEAM AMERICA
112) THE WRONG MAN
113) ALL THAT JAZZ
114) STAR 80
115) CABARET
116) AMERICAN PIE
117) THE PRIZE (1963)
118) SOMEWHERE
119) PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE
120) HUNTER KILLER
121) MOULIN ROUGE (2001)
122) WANDA (1970)
123) BANANAS
124) A WOMAN IN JEOPARDY
125) ABBOTT AND COSTELLO IN HOLLYWOOD
126) DOUBLE INDEMNITY
127) NOBODY LIVES FOREVER (1946)
128) NINOTCHKA
129) AFTER HOURS
130) CAT BALLOU
131) POSSESSED (1931)
132) THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
133) TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
134) THE INVISIBE MAN (2020)
135) HUMORESQUE
136) UNKNOWN
137) VIGIL IN THE NIGHT
138) MR. & MRS. SMITH (1941)
139) NOTHING SACRED (1937)
140) LOVE BEFORE BREAKFAST
141) SWING HIGH SWING LOW
142) TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942)
143) DINNER AT EIGHT
144) RED HEADED WOMAN
145) RED DUST
146) HOLD YOUR MAN
147) SARATOGA
148) PERSONAL PROPERTY
149) DARK PASSAGE
150) BOMBSHELL (1933)
151) THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1948)
152) HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
153) I MARRIED A WITCH
154) DOGFIGHT (1991)
155) LOVE ON THE RUN
156) STOP-LOSS
157) DEATH OF A SCOUNDREL
158) ASSIGNMENT TO KILL
159) THE DROWNING POOL
160) HARPER
161) THE FIGHTER (2010)
162) PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES
163) DIABOLIQUE (1955)
164) FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE
165) MAD HOUSE
166) NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT
167) KILL OR CURE
168) DRACULA A.D. 1972
169) THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA
170) SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN
171) PARTY GIRL (1995)
172) JUMBO
173) GENIUS (2016)
174) BATTLESHIP (2012)
175) HAPPY GILMORE
176) THE BOBO
177) I LOVE YOU, ALICE B. TOKLAS
178) SWEET NOVEMBER (1968)
179) SUNDAY IN NEW YORK
180) THE PETRIFIED FOREST
181) DEAD RECKONING
182) TOO LATE FOR TEARS
183) THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS
184) PITFALL
185) ONE SPY TOO MANY
186) VERTIGO
187) CAT O'NINE TAILS
188) THE VENETIAN AFFAIR
189) HOW TO STEAL THE WORLD
190) TWENTIETH CENTURY
191) CAT PEOPLE (1942)
192) THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE
193) ESPIONAGE AGENT
194) NEAR DARK
195) GOLDFINGER
196) THE PALEFACE
197) TAMMY (2014)
198) DEAD RINGER (1964)
199) ALL THIS, AND HEAVEN TOO
200) SHE'S THE ONE
201) BERSERK
202) THE HONEYMOON MACHINE
203) ROBIN AND THE 7 HOODS
204) THE IPCRESS FILE
205) FEAR
206) BALL OF FIRE
207) DOLITTLE (2020)
208) IT HAPPENED IN FLATBUSH
209) THE REMARKABLE MR. PENNYPACKER
210) THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
211) GAMBIT (1966)
212) PINKY
213) CARMEN JONES
214) DOLL FACE
215) THE CHAPMAN REPORT
216) ENTER LAUGHING
217) A WOMAN REBELS (1936)
218) THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1934)
219) TORCH SONG (1953)
220) THE DAMNED DON'T CRY
221) TODAY WE LIVE
222) WILD IN THE STREETS
223) ROLE MODLES
224) MARNIE
225) YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
226) THUNDERBALL
227) ROCK OF AGES
228) BLUME IN LOVE
229) TOPAZ
230) AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
231) THE THIN MAN
232) THE MALTESE FALCON
233) NO WAY OUT (1950)
234) BABY FACE
235) PAT AND MIKE
236) LOVE FINDS ANDY HARDY
237) LADY SINGS THE BLUES
238) TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY
240) HOLIDAY AFFAIR
241) THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
242) MEET JOHN DOE
243) POSTMAN'S KNOCK
244) DIE ANOTHER DAY
245) SWORDFISH
246) JEZEBEL
247) JOHN WICK III
248) PARACHUTE JUMPER
249) NIGHT NURSE
250) GOTHIKA
251) ANGEL FACE
252) DESK SET
253) THE LITTLE FOXES
254) THE LETTER
255) BAPS
256) THE SILENT PARTNER
257) THE LATE SHOW
258) LOSING ISAIAH
259) BIG BUSINESS
260) THE BISHOP'S WIFE
261) LADY ON A TRAIN
262) BULWORTH
263) THE WAY WE WERE
264) THE BAND WAGON
265) THE CLOCK
266) WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE
267) THE CALL
268) SISTERS (1973)
269) SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
270) EVIL UNDER THE SUN
271) BORN YESTERDAY (1950)
272) THE PRODUCERS (1968)
273) THE AWFUL TRUTH
274) KIDNAP
275) A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
276) A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1961)
277) GILDA
278) OVERBOARD (1988)
279) THEY CALL ME MR. TIBBS
280) THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX
281) DOUBLE PLATINUM
282) LOVER COME BACK
283) LET'S DO IT AGAIN
284) UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT
285) BROTHER JOHN
286) THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938)
287) SHOOT TO KILL
288) LITTLE NIKITA
289) THE PELICAN BRIEF
290) THE PREACHER'S WIFE
291) DARK VICTORY (1939)
292) IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU!
293) MR. DEEDS (1936)
294) CRIMSON TIDE
295) DEATH ON THE NILE (1978)
296) ANNA KARENINA (1935)
297) WHITE HEAT
298) COURAGE UNDER FIRE
299) KANSAS CITY
300) THE PLAYER
301) HE GOT GAME
302) THE HONEY POT
303) DEATHTRAP
304) MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY
305) THE LAST OF SHEILA
306) BUCK AND THE PREACHER
307) MIDNIGHT LACE
308) MO' BETTER BLUES
309) THE BIG HEAT
310) SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS
311) INSIDE MAN
312) ALICE ADAMS
313) THE GLASS KEY
314) TOTAL RECALL (1990)
315) EVE'S BAYOU
316) GRACE OF MY HEART
317) THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND
318) MALCOLM X (1992)
319) THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT
320) WE'RE THE MILLERS
321) CLAUDINE
322) DIRTY GRANDPA
323) THE LIQUIDATOR
324) 36 HOURS
325) HIS KIND OF WOMAN!
326) GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
327) PICTURE MOMMY DEAD
328) THE MARK OF ZORRO (1940)
329) THE FIVE HEARTBEATS
330) 25TH HOUR
331) MURDER BY DEATH
332) BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING
333) SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON
334) THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
335) SCHOOL DAZE
336) OLD ACQUAINTANCE
337) THE OLD MAID
338) CLUE: THE MOVIE
339) HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE
340) THE THIRD MAN
341) EASTER PARADE
342) TOO MANY GIRLS
343) MISTER BUDDWING
344) MY COUSIN VINNY
345) PASSENGER 57
346) PAL JOEY
347) A SOLDIER'S STORY
348) CAR WASH
349) MATADO
350) WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
351) THE CHAMP (1979)
352) MURDER AHOY
353) MURDER MOST FOUL
354) MURDER AT THE GALLOP
355) MURDER SHE SAID . . .
356) CORNBREAD, EARL AND ME
357) THE HITMAN'S BODYGUARD
358) THE KREMLIN LETTER
359) WEST SIDE STORY
360) SEND ME NO FLOWERS
361) HIGHER LEARNING
362) POETIC JUSTICE
363) NORBIT
364) THE NUTTY PROFESSOR II: THE KLUMPS
365) WHAT'S UP, DOC?
366) TRADING PLACES
367) THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN
368) BOOMERANG
369) THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
370) THE BLUE DAHLIA
371) THE LATE SHOW
372) SOME KIND OF HERO
373) THE ROAD TO UTOPIA
374) CALIFORNIA SUITE
375) THE SALZBURG CONNECTION
376) THE CAREY TREATMENT
377) ST. LOUIS BLUES
378) M*A*S*H
379) SKI PARTY
380) MY FAIR LADY
381) ANNA LUCASTA
382) OCEAN'S 11 (1960)
383) OUT OF THE FOG
384) HE RAN ALL THE WAY
385) EAST OF THE RIVER
386) CHARADE
387) DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
388) THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
389) PLAY IT TO THE BONE
390) LITTLE CAESER
391) THE PUBLIC ENEMY
392) LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON
393) THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
394) THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK
395) BROADWAY DANNY ROSE
396) SALT AND PEPPER
397) SOUNDER
398) ATLANTIC CITY (1980)
399) JOHNNY EAGER
400) LATIN LOVERS
401) DANCING CO-ED
402) A LIFE OF HER OWN
403) ZIEGFELD GIRL
404) SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS
405) KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY
406) MARRIAGE IS A PRIVATE AFFAIR
407) CLASH BY NIGHT
408) BUSTIN' LOOSE
409) WE WERE STRANGERS
410) SOAPDISH
411) A MAN CALLED ADAM
412) MARRIAGE ON THE ROCKS
413) DEMOLITION MAN
414) OCEAN'S 8
415) HIDDEN FIGURES
416) BLOOD AND SAND
417) BLACKKKLANSMAN
418) BOOK CLUB
419) BREAKING IN
420) MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (2017)
421) SPY
422) WIDOWS
423) SUPERFLY (2018)
424) WALKING AND TALKING
425) FLIGHT PLAN
426) LITTLE MAN TATE
427) THE HIGH NOTE
428) BIRDS OF PREY
429) RICHARD JEWELL
430) QUEEN & SLIM
431) THE WIZ (1978)
432) THE WAY BACK
433) FORD V FERRARI
434) BLOW OUT
435) JAWS
436) READY OR NOT
437) FAHRENHEIT 451 (2018)
438) THE CHINA SYNDROME
439) THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (2004)
440) THE MULE
441) ISN'T IT ROMANTIC
442) ALL OF ME
443) GHOST
444) MR. & MRS. SMITH (2005)
445) SALT
446) BOYS ON THE SIDE
447) SHAFT (2019)
448) WAITING TO EXHALE
449) JIMINY GLICK IN LALAWOOD
450) BELLY
451) THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT
452) JOHN Q.
453) UNCLE BUCK
454) JACKIE BROWN
455) HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE
456) MOONSTRUCK
457) SUPER FLY (1972)
458) BRIGADOON
459) DINER
In addition to those movies, I also put many TV shows in my Cloud including CALL ME KAT, PRODIGAL SON, CALL YOUR MOTHER, SUPERMAN AND LOIS, THE FLASH, CHARMED, THE NEIGHBORHOOD, ALL RISE, AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE, THE GOLDBERGS, BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA and B-POSITIVE. So I believe it's unlimited. It's promoted as unlimited.
By the way, check out Ava and C.I.'s "TV: Clark Kent reported the truth but then he was fictional" where they cover SUPERMAN AND LOIS (and a lot more). Also check out Mike's "Jimmy Dore and WANDAVISION" -- he's 100% correct about WANDAVISION.
Going out with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Friday, March 5, 2021. Pope Francis has arrived in Iraq while, in the US, Joe Biden's bombing of Syria continues to be an issue.
History was made today as Pope Francis arrived in Iraq becoming the first ever pope to visit the country. A greeting ceremony including music and dance.
Of the warm greeting and dancing provided to the Pope, Rasha al-Aqeedi Tweets:
THE NATIONAL offers a Twitter thread going over the basics of the three day visit. DEUTSCHE WELLE provides an online slide show noting historic, Biblical sites in Iraq. Australia's ABC notes:
An Alitalia plane carrying him, his entourage, a security detail and about 75 journalists, touched down at Baghdad International Airport slightly ahead of schedule just before 2:00pm local time on Friday.
Iraq is deploying thousands of additional security personnel to protect the 84-year-old during his three-day visit, which comes after a spate of rocket and suicide bomb attacks raised fears for his safety.
Linda Bordoni (VATICAN NEWS) offers the following details:
Welcoming Pope Francis on the tarmac was a group of religious and political authorities representing the many different realities of Iraq's diverse make-up, as well as a group of Iraqi citizens and two children with a posy of flowers for the Holy Father.
The welcoming delegation included the Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq, Archbishop Mitja Leskovar, as well as representatives of the Chaldean Archeparchy of Baghdad, the Latin Archdiocese of Baghdad, the Syriac Archeparchy of Baghdad, and the Armenian Archeparchy of Baghdad, as well as the country’s Prime Minister, Mustafa Abdellatif Mshatat, the President of the Republic and his wife.
Ines San Martin (CRUX) reports:
On his flight Friday to Baghdad for a March 5-8 historic visit to Iraq, Pope Francis told journalists that this is an “emblematic” trip and that is also a “duty” to visit this “land martyred for so many years.”
His comments came as he greeted the 74 journalists from 13 nations flying with him from Rome to Baghdad, before proceeding to thank each reporter individually, always wearing a facemask and keeping a social distance due to the COVID-19 restrictions.
Both the pope and all those traveling with him on the Alitalia flight AZ4000 were inoculated against the coronavirus ahead of the apostolic visit, the first in 15 months.
[. . .]
The pontiff has a busy schedule ahead: on Friday he’s meeting civil authorities at the presidential and the local religious community in the Syro-Catholic cathedral where 48 Catholics were martyred during Mass in 2010.
On Saturday he’s going to Najaf, a holy city for Shite Islam, where he will meet Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Later that morning, he will lead an interreligious prayer in the ruins of the City of Ur, considered the birthplace of Abraham, father of believers. Lastly, on Saturday, he will become the first pope to celebrate Mass in the Chaldean Catholic rite.
On Sunday, last full day of his visit, he will focus his attention almost exclusively on the embattled Christian community, visiting the Nineveh Plain, including the cities of Qaraqosh and Mosul, decimated by ISIS, and celebrate Mass for 10,000 people in a stadium in Erbil, capital of the northern autonomous region of Kurdistan.
Security has been tightened for the papal visit. Francesco Bongarra (ARAB NEWS) notes, "Iraq is deploying thousands of additional security personnel to protect Pope Francis during his four-day visit, which comes after a spate of rocket and suicide bomb attacks raised fears for the Catholic leader’s safety.A senior security official who has been briefed on the security plan said that forces involved had been trained to deal with worst-case scenarios, from street battles to bombings and rocket attacks." Rasha al-Aqeedi reports on one threat made against the Pope:
Source from Baghdad: Unknown assailants leave threats on the walls of the Armenian Club in Karradah saying they will blow up the place and the Pope. Police have secured the area and viewed security cams to identify the mob.
Along with threats, there were announced cease-fires. RUDAW reports:
The Iraqi militia group that last month fired rockets at Erbil announced
a ceasefire during this weekend’s historic visit from Pope Francis.
Saraya Awlia al-Dam (Guardians of Blood) said in a statement published
Thursday on Telegram channels affiliated with Iraq militia groups that
they welcome the pope's visit and "will stop all types of military
action during the visit of the pope of the Vatican out of respect
for [Grand Ayatollah Ali] al-Sistani."
Elise Ann Allen of CRUX speaks with Australia's ABC Yvonne Yong about the visit and its significance.
Pope Francis' visit comes a week after US President Joe Biden bombed Syria for . . . the belief that Iran was behind some bombings in . . . Iraq. Gary Leupp (COUNTERPUNCH) observes:
On 2/25 the U.S. under new President Biden launched missile strikes on a site in SYRIA (where the U.S. has troops illegally operating, still attempting to effect regime change) to kill IRAQIS to (as Secretary of “Defense” Lloyd Austin explains it) send a “message to IRAN” that it “can’t act with impunity.” That is: the U.S. will interpret the actions of any Shiites in the world against its own (real or imagined) interests as “Iranian” acts of impunity against itself. It will continue to stupidly conflate Iraqi Shiites, Syrian Alewites, Yemeni Zaidis and Iranian Twelvers swallowing the (Wahhabist Sunni) Saudi propaganda about a threatening “Shiite crescent” from the Mediterranean to central Afghanistan.
U.S. news anchors and talking heads will continue to carelessly substitute “Iranian militia” for “Iraqi militia” not even noticing nor caring if they err. There is no law in this country of lies, in this season of lies, that prevents someone like CNN’s Richard Engel from constructing a story about Iranian provocation and leaving out all the points made above.
What, you thought the lies were over with Trump gone? You thought Biden was going to be a straight-shooter, and would— while handling the burning issue of structural racism in this country—also end a century and a half of imperialist aggression based on lies? You thought maybe the critic of racism and police murder would become the critic of imperialism, regime change, and the sort of racist essentializing applied the Iran and Arab Shiites?
Consider this: Gen. Austin thanked the Iraqi government for its cooperation in planning the attack to send the message to Iran. Never mind that Iran has actually since the U.S. election discouraged any actions against U.S. troops in Iraq. Never mind that the Iraqi government issued a denial of any consultations with the U.S. in the attack. (Pentagon press secretary Kirby had to acknowledge under questioning 2/26 that the Iraqis did not assist the U.S. with targeting.) Never mind that a force the Iraqis want out of their country killed an anti-ISIL Iraqi warrior helping the neighboring country of Syria rid itself of the hated ISIL. This is meant as a message to IRAN—to make it clear that the U.S. can act with impunity for the near term, anywhere it wants—under Biden just as it did under Trump.
Kelly Vlahos addresses the bombing and what it means with Matt Kibbe.
US Senator Tim Kaine's office issued the following this week:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Todd Young (R-IN) reintroduced their bipartisan legislation to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Iraq. The bill would formally end the authorizations for the Gulf and Iraq wars – 30 and 19 years, respectively, after these AUMFs were first passed, reasserting Congress’ vital role in not only declaring wars, but in ending them. The repeal of these authorizations also recognizes the strong partnership the United States now has with a sovereign, democratic Iraq. The bill is also cosponsored by Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Mike Lee (R-UT), Chris Coons (D-DE), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Rand Paul (R-KY).
“Last week’s airstrikes in Syria show that the Executive Branch, regardless of party, will continue to stretch its war powers,” Kaine said. “Congress has a responsibility to not only vote to authorize new military action, but to repeal old authorizations that are no longer necessary. The 1991 and 2002 AUMFs that underpinned the war against Iraq need to be taken off the books to prevent their future misuse. They serve no operational purpose, keep us on permanent war footing, and undermine the sovereignty of Iraq, a close partner. I call on Congress to promptly take up this measure and for the Biden Administration to support it to finally show the American people that the Article I and II branches can work together on these issues.”
“It has been thirty years since the first Gulf War began and nineteen years since the United States went back into Iraq. In the years since, Congress has been operating on autopilot when it comes to our essential duties to authorize the use of military force. The fact that authorities for both of these wars are still law today is illustrative of the bipartisan failure of Congress to perform its constitutionally-mandated oversight role,” Young said. “Today, Senator Tim Kaine and I have re-introduced our bipartisan legislation to continue our fight to repeal these outdated war authorities. Congress must not shy away from this debate and I look forward to working with my colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to advance this important legislation.”
“One of Congress’s most solemn constitutional responsibilities is deciding when and how we choose to send America’s sons and daughters into danger overseas,” Duckworth said. “As a nation, we are long over-due to have a thorough and honest reckoning about responsibly exercising Congressional war powers, which includes repealing outdated authorities like the 1991 and 2002 AUMFs. For decades, administrations of both parties have kept these authorizations on the books to justify military action in the region without returning to Congress to make their best legal case for the need for such action. I’m proud to join this bipartisan resolution that would repeal these outdated war authorities and I hope we can work in a bipartisan way to address war powers.”
“Congress has a responsibility to not only declare war but also to bring conflicts to a close,” Lee said. “As demonstrated by presidents from both political parties, when authorizations for the use of military force (AUMF) remain on the books long past a conflict’s conclusion they become ripe for abuse, expanding far beyond congressional intent. Closing out U.S. authorizations for war in Iraq is long overdue, and Congress owes it to the men and women who sacrificed blood and treasure to declare victory and come home.”
“The airstrikes against Iranian-backed forces in Syria last week demonstrate the need to review and revise the way in which our leaders collectively choose whether or not to wage war. An initial yet important part of that process is removing unnecessary war-making resolutions that are still on the books,” Coons said. “I’m proud to join Senator Kaine in this bipartisan effort to repeal the 1991 and 2002 AUMFs, and I look forward to working with the Biden Administration and my colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee to ensure Congress plays its rightful role in future decisions about the use of force.”
This bill is an effort to prevent the future misuse of the expired Gulf and Iraq War authorizations and strengthen Congressional oversight over war powers. For years, Kaine and Young have been leading voices in Congress raising concerns over the use of military force without congressional authorization.
Repealing these authorities will not impact ongoing U.S. operations to counter ISIS.
You can read the bill text here.
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