Ben Rhodes
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I am suggesting, though, that the legal authorization...
The authorization to use military force for all these counterterrorism activities is still in place from 2002.
End that.
And if the president needs to take action against some terrorist cell, make him go back to Congress and make a case again.
Like bring a bunch of this infrastructure home.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Bush told them that there was a that was a law enforcement approach.
And then remember, John, the the last ad of the of the 2004 campaign, there were like some wolves in a forest or something.
And that was to scare us.
Yeah.
The Dick Cheney.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But here's the thing.
This is where I lose patience.
The Democrats.
We act like the politics are frozen in time from that John Kerry election.
I mean, when in fact, Americans have been telling us, Barack Obama ran in 08 as an anti-war candidate.
He ran in 2012 as the more dovish candidate to Mitt Romney.