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Rep. Barbara Lee says Biden putting US on course to end forever wars with support for 2002 AUMF repeal cdavis@insider.com (Charles Davis) © Ahmed Hasan Ubeyd/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Debris are seen following a US-led coalition airstrike hits Headquarters of al Nusra Front in Aleppo, Syria on November 06, 2014. Ahmed Hasan Ubeyd/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
In 2002, Congress passed an Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq.
In 2020, the AUMF was cited by the Trump administration to justify killing Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
The White House on Monday announced its support for repealing the law.
When the Trump administration sought a legal justification for killing an Iranian general in Baghdad, it pointed to a measure passed by Congress more than 17 years earlier: the law that formally granted President George W. Bush the authority to invade Iraq.
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