"I would anticipate that we will have specific language that we'll submit to Capitol Hill relatively soon," Earnest said, Asked if said language could come as early as Friday, Earnest replied, "I wouldn't necessarily rule it out. I don't think it is going to be tomorrow but these kinds of plans often have a way of changing, so relatively soon is the best guidance I can offer."
The White House has repeatedly referred to the upcoming legislative language as an "Authorization for Use of Military Force," but the White House also claims Obama's war in Iraq needs no new authorization from Congress.
"The fact is that the president does believe that the military course that he has already ordered was already authorized by the United States Congress under the 2001 AUMF," Earnest said in response to a question suggesting that Obama "needed" a new AUMF.
"So this is not a matter of legal necessity," Earnest continued. "It is a matter however, of the president's desire to send a very clear signal to the people of this country, to our allies, and to our enemies that the United States of America and our political system is united behind the strategy to degrade and destroy ISIL that the president has laid out."
Earnest did leave open the possibility that the new language could repeal the 2002 AUMF that President Bush secured from Congress before he began his war in Iraq. "I think the president has made the case previously that he does support the repeal of the 2002 AUMF," Earnest said. "And this is in the context of a speech that he gave a year or two ago talking about the need to review some of these policies that have the unintended effect of keeping the United States on sort of this permanent war footing."
Earnest did not say if Obama would also seek repeal of the 2001 AUMF that he is currently using to justify his own bombing campaign in Iraq.
His Muslim Faith Made Clear for Those Really Listening
By: Diane Sori
- Obama's words alluding that there is more than one God...as in the false god known as allah
Yesterday, the National Prayer Breakfast was held in Washington DC. bringing together lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and leaders from across the religious spectrum. And true to form, Barack HUSSEIN Obama turned even this faith based event into a platform for his bloviations that ISIS is NOT islam.
Coming but a day after seeing the horrific video of what ISIS did to the Jordanian pilot, Obama said that too many religions are "twisted and misused in the name of evil" by people who use faith "as a wedge - or worse, sometimes used as a weapon,” yet this vile man still refuses to point a finger at islam...the one and only 'supposed' religion that continues to commit savage acts in this 21st century.
And the two faiths of which Obama alluded to in his "all religions" comment are the only two faiths that believe in and live by the words of the one true living God...as in Christianity and Judaism..as he calculatingly forgets that both underwent reformation centuries ago and that killings done in these intervening years by men of those faiths were NOT done in the name of said faiths...for other reasons YES...but NOT in the name of God...and NOT in the name of Christ. Only islam's jihadis continue to kill in the name of their (false) god allah...yelling “allahu akbar” as women are stoned, heads roll, and bodies go up in flames.
History is the past...it's what came before...it's events that led us to become who we are today and today is what we need to be concerned with NOT what happened in days long gone. And with Obama's words spewed that “we need to get off our high horse”...a direct slap in the face to Christians everywhere...and his adding that what's happening with ISIS (he said ISIL of course) today is unique to some other place and that such "distortions" are NOT unique to any one group of people, this vile man actually dared to compare Christianity with today's islamic savages.
(See Obama's full speech at yesterday's Prayer Breakfast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU7RuilNq4w Article continues below.)
And still he bloviated on saying, "As people of faith, we are summoned to push back against those who've tried to distort our religion — any religion — for their own nihilistic ends.” “Our religion”... NO I do NOT think so as 'our' religion is NOT Obama's religion. Forgetting that our country is Judeo-Christian in both its beliefs and foundation and that his actions alone speak volumes that he shares NONE of those beliefs, it's his very own words that are what betrays him. Saying that while ISIL...again referring to the Levant where Israel does NOT exist...is "a brutal, vicious death cult that, in the name of religion, carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism," he still refuses to name the only religion today that does unspeakable acts in the name of their (false) god...again that being islam.
Jefferson knew islam's truth, yet today we have a president who still refuses to see islam as brutal and evil or even utter let alone think the words muslim islamic terrorists...and for that if NOTHING else it's time that people accept as fact that those words will NEVER cross this man's lips because (I believe) that Barack HUSSEIN Obama's true allegiances do indeed lie with those committing these most unspeakable of acts.
And adding to Obama's most grievous comments was his words that,“in our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.” Guess he forgot that slavery ended in America in 1865 but that slavery is ongoing throughout today's muslim world...and guess he also forgets that the Jim Crow segregation laws were championed by the Democrats and that it was the Republicans who championed its elimination.
And did you ever notice that the man who claims he's a Christian...even though NO church in America has a record of him ever converting from the islamic faith that he was raised in...loves to bash Christians and Christ every chance he gets...loves NOTHING better than to bash Christian history while speaking of how wonderful islam is. Guess what...islam is anything but wonderful as islam is islam is islam...it's one vile package with NO deviations from its perverted 7th century norm allowed.
And so the man who reminded the prayer breakfast attendees numerous times that violence rooted in religion is NOT exclusive to islam...and the man who equated Christianity to ISIS...proves once and for all that he is anything but Christian. And this man finished his speech by saying that he is "looking forward to welcoming Pope Francis to the United States later this year" (it was later announced that the Pope will address a joint session of Congress on September 24th ). I just hope that this Pope has the guts to slap Obama up his islam-loving, terrorist-condoning, Christian and Jew hating head.
And to that I say...amen.