The US House of Representatives will vote to repeal a 2002 law authorizing the Bush administration to use force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, a move that a number of Democrats have said is long overdue.
Why it Matters: Previous attempts by Democrats to repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) — and to revise the 2001 AUMF, which has been interpreted to allow the military to hunt down Islamist terrorists all over the world for two decades — have failed amid opposition from the Pentagon in both the Obama and Trump administrations due to the war against the Islamic State (IS).
