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Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) on Thursday threatened to impeach President Obama if any U.S. troops are killed in Syria.

“If one of our troops goes to Syria and is killed, I will introduce articles of impeachment against the president,” Jones said.

“No president, Democrat or Republican, should have the authority to bypass the Constitution and the will of the American people and bomb a foreign country because he does not like the leader of the country,” he said.

Jones’s threat came at a press conference where a bipartisan group of libertarian-leaning Republicans and liberal Democrats — including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — pushed for legislation to bar Obama from arming the Syrian rebels without congressional approval.

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GOP Rep. threatens to impeach Obama if American troops are killed in Syria

By Jeremy Herb - 06/27/13 11:31 AM ET

Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) on Thursday threatened to impeach President Obama if any U.S. troops are killed in Syria.

“If one of our troops goes to Syria and is killed, I will introduce articles of impeachment against the president,” Jones said.“No president, Democrat or Republican, should have the authority to bypass the Constitution and the will of the American people and bomb a foreign country because he does not like the leader of the country,” he said.
Jones’s threat came at a press conference where a bipartisan group of libertarian-leaning Republicans and liberal Democrats — including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — pushed for legislation to bar Obama from arming the Syrian rebels without congressional approval.
The bills come after the White House said last month that it would provide military assistance to the rebels because it concluded that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces had used chemical weapons.
Jones and the other lawmakers frequently cited the 2011 U.S. intervention in Libya in their concerns with potential military action in Syria. In Libya, the Obama administration took part in the NATO military campaign that ousted Moammar Gadhafi from power without approval from Congress.
They stressed their bill was as much about forcing Congress to approve any military intervention as it was about expressing opposition to U.S. intervention.
But the other lawmakers on the bill at the press conference — which included Reps. Chris Gibson (R-N.Y.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Rick Nolan (D-Minn.) — weren't so eager to talk impeachment.
When asked if they agreed with Jones, Gibson said he was most concerned about forcing Congress to have a real debate on what to do in Syria. Welch said that Obama had shown admirable restraint thus far in Syria. Paul ducked out of the press conference at that point and didn’t give his opinion.
Jones has previously raised the issue of impeachment over Syria, introducing a sense of Congress resolution last year that said the use of military force without authorization from Congress was an impeachable offense.
The two-year civil war in Syria, where more than 100,000 have been killed, has split Congress in a manner that doesn’t fall along party lines.
Conservative and libertarian Republicans have joined liberal Democrats to express opposition to U.S. intervention. In addition to the legislation from Paul and the House lawmakers, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) also introduced a bill this week requiring congressional approval before any U.S. military aid is sent to the rebels.
Lawmakers opposed to intervention in Syria say U.S. involvement will only exacerbate the conflict, and they warn U.S. weapons will wind up in the hands of Islamic militants fighting alongside the secular opposition.
“There’s a certain irony to this,” Paul said Thursday. “Now we will be arming forces who are actually associated and fighting on the same side as al Qaeda.”
Hawkish Republicans and Democrats, however, have criticized the Obama administration for not doing more to intervene. A group of senators including Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) have called on Obama to create a no-fly zone in Syria.
They say the U.S. will not put U.S. troops in Syria, but can use a no-fly zone to give the rebels a safe area in the country to organize and gain the upper hand in the conflict. They also dispute the notion that the U.S. can’t provide weapons to vetted opposition groups rather than Islamic militants.
It’s unlikely that the bill from Gibson, Jones, Welch and Nolan will get a vote in the House. The Defense authorization bill that passed in the House earlier this month urged the president to “consider all courses of action to remove President Bashar Assad from power.”
Gibson introduced an amendment to remove the language, but it was defeated 123-301.


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“If one of our troops goes to Syria and is killed, I will introduce articles of impeachment against the president,” Jones said.

Why is he going to wait until one soldier is killed? Talk is cheap but so far they are all just cutting bait.

Obama is arming organizations that are listed as Terroist. That alone is reason enough for impeachment.

Congressman Walter Jones is one of the best members of Congress. How I wish he were President or Speaker of the House!

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Congressman Walter Jones Introduces Resolution to Prohibit Use of War Power in Syria without Congressional Approval

By Global Research News
Global Research, June 28, 2013
US Congress. Website of Congresswoman Walter Jones
Region: USA
Theme: Law and Justice, US NATO War Agenda

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) introduced a resolution to prohibit the use of war power against Syria without congressional authorization. H. Con. Res 40 emphasizes that declaring and appropriating funds for war is a power of the legislative – not executive – branch. Should the president choose to implement military force against Syria without congressional approval, that decision would constitute an impeachable offense under Article 2, Section 4 of the Constitution.

“We cannot continue to spend American money and risk American lives overseas without a vote of approval from Congress,” said Jones. “For too long, the legislature’s responsibility to authorize military force has been overlooked. It is time that we uphold the Constitution, which makes it clear in Article 1, Section 8 that Congress alone holds the power to declare war. A breach of that principle by the president would unquestionably be considered an impeachable offense.”

See the full text of the resolution at the link below.

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