Tim Kaine: Congress ‘Would Rather Criticize’ Obama than Pass ISIS AUMF

‘It isn’t up to the United States to set the terms for who the leader of a country is’

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KAINE: "You know, bottom line, Congress would rather criticize the president saying you don’t have a strategy. They don’t want to be held accountable. Pepper the witnesses with questions and vote yes or no. It’s bipartisan in both houses. I have not been able to convince my colleagues this is a war that tactically we’re doing what we need to do, but Congress hasn’t authorized the war. In Syria we have international questions, I think, about the legality of the war."

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