Reuters — U.S. senators want Congress to OK military action in Syria

Here we go again.

The Trump administration, like former President Barack Obama's, has been using a 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) against al Qaeda passed after the Sept. 11 attacks as the legal basis for a wide range of military action since.… 

Democratic Senator Tom Udall voted for the 2001 authorization while he was a member of the House of Representatives. "I would have never imagined that vote supporting U.S. troops in Syria in 2017 and engagements with the Assad regime," he said.

They probably never thought that the Patriot Act was a vote for a police state either.

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U.S. senators want Congress to OK military action in Syria
Patricia Zengerle