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Rand Paul urges Congress to declare war on ISIS – CNN.com

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN

updated 10:34 AM EST, Mon November 24, 2014

Washington (CNN) -- Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul wants Congress to formally declare war for the first time since World War II.

Paul, who is expected to launch a 2016 presidential bid, plans to introduce a resolution when Congress returns in December to declare war against ISIS, also known as the Islamic State. The resolution would also end the 2002 authorization that led to the Iraq war and set an expiration date for the 2001 measure that gives the President the authority to go after al Qaeda terrorists, the two measures the Obama administration has used as backing for the U.S. bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria against ISIS.

The U.S. contends that ISIS is an offshoot of al Qaeda.

Paul's resolution is just one of several circulating on Capitol Hill that would give Obama specific authority to combat ISIS, though Paul's is reportedly the only one that would formally declare war.

The Kentucky Republican's resolution would also pin the war to a one-year timeframe, requiring the President to come back to Congress within a year to get the authority to pursue a U.S. campaign against ISIS.

Paul's call to action comes just two weeks after he called the U.S.'s war against ISIS "illegal," writing in a Daily Beast Op-ed that "it must be declared and made valid, or it must be ended."

Obama said three weeks ago that he would seek the backing of Congress to continue waging war against ISIS, while asserting that he does have the legal authority to continue the U.S. military effort against ISIS.

Paul has sought to shed the perception that he is an isolationist, and the resolution also reinforces his profile as a firm backer of the need to rein in presidential authority.

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11.24.14

The Kentucky senator, seeking to define himself as a foreign-policy heavyweight ahead of 2016, will introduce a measure in the Senate next month declaring war on the terror group.

The most important part of Rand Pauls assessment of questions of war, the Kentucky senator told The Daily Beast this fall, is how you go to war. Now hes putting that assessment into action with a plan to introduce a declaration of war against ISIS in the Senate next month.

The move is part of Pauls ongoing campaign to position himself as a foreign-policy heavyweight ahead of the Republican presidential primaries, when he is expected to mount a campaign for the nomination. But it may simply be dismissed as a tit-for-tat gesture as Republicans complain of executive overreach in the aftermath of President Obamas executive order on immigration.

As Obama is hit with charges of overstepping his power, Pauls resolution could be perceived as an attempt to strike back in another conflict: the now 200-year-old war between the executive and legislative branches of government. The senators resolution would turn on its head the traditional process by which presidents lead the United States into conflict and Congress says, Sure, why not?

In a draft of the resolution obtained by The Daily Beast, Paul states that the organization referring to itself as the Islamic State has declared war on the United States and its allies and that ISIS presents a clear and present danger to United States diplomatic facilities in the region, including our embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, and consulate in Erbil, Iraq.

The Obama administration has justified the bombing campaign against ISIS by claiming that it is enabled by the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force in Afghanistan, passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq. Pauls resolution would terminate the latter and place an expiration date on the former, one year after the passing of his resolution.

Perhaps most surprisingly, Pauls resolution will allow for limited use of boots on the ground as necessary for the protection or rescue of members of the United States Armed Forces or United States citizens from imminent danger [posed by ISIS] for limited operations against high value targets, and as necessary for advisory and intelligence gathering operations.

No. 1: Always go to Congress. We cant do things unilaterally. This used to be the presidents position in 2007, when he ran for office.

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