D2. Authorization for Use of Military Force

[AnthonyAú]

Platform - Green Party US
  I. Democracy
    D. Foreign Policy
      2. Authorization for Use of Military Force

• Our government does not have any moral or legal right, or any justification, to preemptively attack another nation.
  
  The only legitimate use of military force is to repel an actual attack on our nation.
  
  We demand that our government adhere to international law, including the Kellogg-Briand Pact, Nuremberg Charter and United Nations Charter, which prohibit any and all preemptive wars or first strikes with any and all weaponry, nuclear and non-nuclear.
  We demand repeal – not amendment -- of the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) passed by Congress in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and oppose any other measure purporting to 'authorize' preemptive or illegal military action.
  
  In passing the AUMF, Congress abdicated its exclusive authority under the Constitution to declare war.
  
  It further violated the Constitution and betrayed its responsibility to the American people by delegating to the president – one person – virtually dictatorial power to commit acts of war whenever he or she chooses.
  
  The 'system of checks and balances' has been replaced by Congress just signing the 'checks' to pay for war.
  
  The AUMF has been used to justify U.S. military actions in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Iraq, Kenya, Libya, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  
  Numerous studies have shown that the 'War on Terror' has created an ever-increasing number of terrorists, destabilized the Middle East and beyond, and created massive death and destruction.
  
  It serves to maintain the US in a state of perpetual war.
• Our government should establish a policy to abolish nuclear weapons.
  
  It should set the conditions and schedule for fulfilling that goal by taking the following steps: 
  
   ▪️Declare a no-first-strike policy. 
  
   ▪️Declare a no-pre-emptive strike policy. 
  
   ▪️Declare that the U.S. will never threaten or use a nuclear weapon, regardless of size, on a non-nuclear nation. 
  
   ▪️Sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Our pledge to end testing will open the way for non-nuclear states to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which has been held up by our refusal to sign the CTBT. Honor the conditions set in the NPT for nuclear nations. 
  
   ▪️Reverse our withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and honor its stipulations. 
  
   ▪️End the research, testing and stockpiling of all nuclear weapons of any size. 
  
   ▪️Dismantle all nuclear warheads from their missiles.
• We urge our government to sign the Toronto treaty banning the production, stockpiling, use and sale of land mines, and assist other nations in unearthing and disabling land mines buried in their lands.
• We urge our government to end all stockpiling of chemical and biological weapons and all research, use, and sale of such weapons; and sign the convention that will establish the decrease and inspection of all nations' stockpiles of such weapons, which the U.S. abandoned.

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• The U.S. must allow foreign teams to visit the U.S. for verification purposes at least annually.