Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Maugh.

Remember our Congress here? We defer. Do you believe the House passage of the No War

against Iran Act yesterday will effectively curb Trump's ability to take military action

without congressional approval?

So this has always been a kind of gray area.

So we passed two resolutions. One was ending the 2002 AUMF, the authorization to use military

control. That's why we got into Iraq, right?

That was widely seen as we got in, that was, there was 2000 and the 2001 AUMF, which

is fighting al-Qaeda and terror. So we're fighting under that. The 2002 AUMF was largely seen

as set out to take out the Saddam Hussein regime.

Is the one Biden's always having to explain his vote for, right?

That, so he's, yeah, so, uh, Barboli is about the only person to vote against. That is

a representative, Barboli from Oakland.

Oh, no, I'm thinking of the one that many, like 27 Democratic senators voted for, to give

Bush or something.

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm talking in the House. Yeah. So in the House, Barboli, representative

Barboli was, was the only person to vote against, that if I recall correctly.

And, um, no, I think that's the one that was right after Afghanistan.

That's the thing.

I think more people were for the Iraq war, right? Because by then they had sold it as,

so that's what we were, we were for the 2002.

Okay.

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