How can Republicans have the nerve to criticize Clinton for removing troops from Somalia?

Question

when Republicans in congress went along with Democrats in demanding that Clinton remove them? If there is not a declaration of war, the War Power Resolution of 1973 gives congress the power to remove them. These are FACTS!

HERE'S THE PROOF:

WAR POWERS RESOLUTION OF 1973
Section 5(c)
"Notwithstanding subsection (b), at any time that United States Armed Forces are engaged in hostilities outside the territory of the United States, its possessions and territories without a declaration of war or specific statutory authorization, such forces shall be removed by the President if the Congress so directs by concurrent resolution."
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/warpower.htm

H.CON.RES.170
Pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1544(c)), the Congress hereby directs the President to remove United States Armed Forces from Somalia by March 31, 1994 (unless the President requests and the Congress authorizes a later date), except for a limited number of members of the Armed Forces sufficient only to protect United States diplomatic facilities and citizens, and noncombatant personnel to advise the United Nations commander in Somalia.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c103:H.CON.RES.170:

H. RES. 293
"Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the House the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 170) directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from Somalia by January 31, 1994."
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c103:H.RES.293:

H.CON.RES.170
Title: Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from Somalia by January 31, 1994.
- Introduced to the House no 10/22/1993 and passed on a voice vote on 11/9/1993
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d103:HC00170:@@@L&summ2=m&

H RES 293, YEA-AND-NAY, 8-Nov-1993
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution
BILL TITLE: PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.CON.RES. 170; REMOVAL OF U.S. FORCES FROM SOMALIA

YES:
229 Democrats
160 Republicans
1 Independent

No:

3 Democrats
5 Republicans

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1993/roll548.xml

THE TRUTH GOES IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER FOR CONSERVATIVES.

CAN ANYBODY TELL ME WHERE I MENTIONED IRAQ???

I POSTED THIS QUESTION TO POINT OUT THE HYPOCRACY OF REPUBLICANS. THEY ATTACKED CLINTON FOR REMOVING TROOPS, BUT THEY WERE THE ONES WHO FORCED HIM TO DO IT.

Answer 1

Hey stop with all those truths. you truth has a known liberal bias.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I was the one called in to clean up the mess in Somalia. It was on MY recommendation that we pull the troops out. Look, the President at that time made it a point NOT to go before Congress and ask permission. He did not request it for Bosnia, Haiti OR Somalia. The CIA was providing intel to the Army. The "intel" they provided was more than slighly dated. The CIA was acting like a bunch of cowboys. Some of the first things they requested of me were asthma medication for one of their officers and hypertension medication for another. These folks, were their primary concerns at that particular moment. On behalf of the CIA, I will tell you that it is (was) extremely diffecult knowing much of anyting, concidering that Carter had gutted the CIA's budget and outlawed "spying." And neither Reagan nor Bush (senior) made an effort to ammend that oversight of sheer stupidity.
The horrible truth is, we had very little interest either economically or political in Somalia and the Republicans were aware of this. As for the Carter policy mistakes and the CIA, Bush (jr.) has at last addressed this issue. It is beginning to pay dividends in spades.

Answer 4

Just need to point out that congress did give a "specific statutory authorization" for the Iraq invasion. Though absolute falsehoods were used to convince cogress to do so, it still stands.

So, congress did not authorize troop deployments or hostile actions in Somalia where they did authorize it in Iraq.

Answer 5

Yes.
Clinton was a traitor. Still is. Good point.

That's what Sandy Berger was doing when he stole & destroyed classified documents to protect Clinton from Treason, from the 9/11 Commission Investigation.

Answer 6

The republicans are the ones that voted to defund the troops in Somalia.

Answer 7

Somalia was a mistake because they can't governed themselves.

The Kurds in Iraq are not causing any problems.

Answer 8

I would have to believe that if Congress can give authorization, they can take it away with the same authority

Answer 9

You are correct, the Republicans were correct in criticizing Clinton.

Answer 10

You forgot the part where Congress authroized force in Iraq

The House
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll455.xml

Senate
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237

Answer 11

lol, why are this cons yapping about Iraq when you're question is about Somalia????