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The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, [1] informally known as the Iraq Resolution, is a joint resolution passed by the United States Congress in October 2002 as Public Law No. 107-243, authorizing the use of the United States Armed Forces against Saddam Hussein's Iraq government in what would be known as ...
During World War I, the United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, citing unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany attempted to persuade Mexico to join the war against the United States. Later that year, on December 7, 1917, Congress also declared war on Austria-Hungary, a German ally.
The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (short title) (Pub. L. 102–1) or Joint Resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 (official title), was the United States Congress's January 14, 1991, authorization of the use of U.S. military force in the Gulf War.
The repeal effort is also targeting a similar 1991 authorization that gave President George H.W. Bush permission to start the Gulf War. Two decades after start of Iraq conflict, Congress poised to ...
[89] [90] PBS commentator Bill Moyers had made similar points throughout the lead-up to the Iraq War, and prior to a national press conference on the Iraq War [91] Moyers correctly predicted "at least a dozen times during this press conference he [the President] will invoke 9/11 and al-Qaeda to justify a preemptive attack on a country that has ...
The Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, [83] [84] was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition , which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein .
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress (link opens in PDF) on Thursday of plans to sell the government of Iraq as much as $1.95 billion in assorted military equipment, including ...
Under Article I, Section 8, Congress has the power to: declare war; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal (i.e., license private citizens to capture enemy vessels) raise and support Armies (for terms up to two years at a time) provide and maintain a Navy; make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces