[no-embed]On its face it is insulting and degrading for mainstream "news" in the US to report that 1,500 more American troops are going to the Middle East to fight "ISIS" or "Daesh", when in reality, they are going to fight the Iraqi PMC's and try to stop Turkey from attacking the Kurdish/American oil facilities.
America's program to overthrow Assad in Syria and have operational control over all Iraq never ended. It has been continuous since the Iraq War, through a total of 4 Presidential administrations, 2 of each party, and that includes Trump.
What they won't tell you is the real reason WHY the government has to say they are still fighting "ISIS", a group that never existed indigenously, but rather arose from American and Israeli (and sometimes Saudi) sponsorship, which was branded as the Syrian Democratic Forces or ISIS. That is why Russia's military support of Syria was necessary to keep Assad in power, otherwise, Assad would have been overthrown and Syria would be another Iraq.
The legal reason is the same that the US uses to commit executive-level acts of war without Congressional approval, such as the ongoing attacks in Yemen and all its operations in the Middle East, including Israel. - the 2001 Authorization for use of Military Force, enacted 7 days after September 11th 2001, is the actual bill that authorizes the President to order attacks without consulting Congress against "terrorism".
Therefore, any war can start without Congress. All the ruling administration has to do is LABEL a group as a "terrorist organization", and it's war. The AUMF has been used to authorize military operations in at least 10 different countries. (link: Anti-war and human rights groups have long pressured Congress to repeal both authorizations as a succession of presidents have used them to justify launching military operations
in at least 10 countries without going to Congress first.
The same 2001 AUMF can and might be used to go to war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which, I'm sure you've heard, is "the world's largest state-sponsor of terrorism" - a term invented by the neocons for the above purpose - war without direct Congressional approval. It should be noted that although there have been successful repeal and replace efforts in both houses,
This being said, multiple attempts to overturn the 2002 AUMF against Iraq bill have passed both Houses of Congress, but for either intentional or "concidental" reasons, these have never made it to a presiden't desk. The Democrat-controlled House passed one in 2021, and the Democrat-controlled Senate this past year in 2023, but the Democrats lost the House in 2022. The current GOP House bill in Committee has not been voted on yet - but it NOTABLY makes exception for war against Iran or "Iranian-backed" militias, which the Republicans insist on keeping a target of the "new" 2002 AUMF - so that a president does not need congress to go to war against the whole region, if it can be labelled as "Iran-backed".
The two different AUMF's should not be confused, and they overlap. Both 2001 and 2002 are currently in-force.
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The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has carried out a missile strike on the US military base in the Koniko oil field, eastern Deir Ezzor region of Syria
https://t.me/WW3INFO/32424
Turkish shelling and airstrikes have targeted dozens of infrastructure facilities in northeast Syria over the past days, wounding at least 10 people and cutting out electricity and water supplies in wide areas held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in the war-torn country, Kurdish-led authorities in northeast Syria said Monday.
https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...ructure-facilities-wound-10-cut-off-106379009
New Jersey soldiers prepare to join fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria
https://news.yahoo.com/jersey-soldiers-prepare-join-fight-234100372.html
he U.S. media reported that some 1,500 soldiers will be deployed to Syria and Iraq to "fight against terrorist group Daesh." The move will likely anger Ankara, which complains of Washington's support for the terrorist group PKK, ostensibly to help their "fight against Daesh." A local branch of CBS reported that the New Jersey Army National Guard will dispatch its 1,500 members to two Middle Eastern countries in one of the largest military deployments in the region by the U.S. in more than a decade.
Troops will be part of Operation Inherent Resolve, a U.S. military campaign against Daesh from Iraq and Libya to Syria. Last year alone, the U.S. sent more than 3,000 soldiers to Syria and Iraq for the campaign. The website Axios reported that U.S. military presence in the region reached about 45,400 as of October 2023 and most are stationed in Kuwait.
https://www.dailysabah.com/politics...a-despite-turkish-outcry-for-pkk-support/news
