Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) filed cloture on March 14 on a bill that would repeal the 2002 and 1991 Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (AUMFs).
This comes as the 20th anniversary of the March 19, 2003, invasion of Iraq approaches.
The 2002 AUMF allowed the U.S. military to go into Iraq following reports that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The United States captured him in 2003 and he was executed in Iraq in 2006. The 1991 AUMF allowed U.S. forces to enter the Gulf War, where Hussein’s forces were driven out of Kuwait.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced the bill, which was introduced by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.), to the full Senate on March 8….