Calling for the same, calling for the house and the senate to come back from break to grant president obama for iraq and syria, in the first 45 minutes this morning should congress return from break to the end vote on policy 285880 and 2025853882 for independence for iraq and afghanistan veterans if you want to way in 2025853883. On social media reach out to us on twitter at cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan and email journal on cspan. Org and they took the vote in the Guardian Newspaper of bombing to start in hours as they backed the war, 524 for the resolution, 43 against and a little this morning from patrick winters saying the over all tone of the sevenhour debate was questioning and dubious and warned any strategy does not address isis in syria or the proxy war between i ran and the sunni on the other was incomplete and also questions on whether iraqs army has the political well to defend communities from isis assault in the uk. Here in the United States some members of Congress Calling for congress who are currently on break, campaigning for the november elections to come back and debate on iraq wars or resolution on for iraq and syria, tom cole was one of those members of congress. In fact, the story that appeared in the washington time a few days ago highlights this. The author of that story who joins us on the phone, she is a capitol Hill Reporter for the washington times. Good morning to you. Good morning. Could you talk a little bit about this story and what representative cole was calling for. Saying he should Call Congress back because its part of their responsibilities to be home and campaigning on break right now while these strikes are going on. And he basically wants the president to Call Congress back to d. C. Is he the only member of Congress Calling for this kind of thing or are there others and does that break down on partisan lines of who is calling for this type of action . There are actually several members of congress who do want to come back to d. C. , some of the republicans, it does vary across parties and there are democrats and republicans calling for the same thing and repetitive cole and president obama should call us back and most of the democrats are saying that its boehners responsibility and the speaker never should have let congress go home without a vote on these strikes. Where does the speaker stand on calling the congress back and debating this issue . He actually has said earlier in the week that there is not going to be a vote in the lame duck. He is not planning on voting until 2015 because he doesnt think its appropriate to have this debate when there are all these potentially outgoing members of congress and thinks you should wait to get the new class of people. Jacqueline, what exactly would congress, what are they looking for this debate . What are they looking to talk about and what is the end result if congress were to come back and do this very thing . Well, they have already voted on whether or not to arm and strain the Syrian Rebels and passed that so that is no longer an issue for them. The issue is really these strikes in syria and iraq on some things the iraq authorization in the early 2000 still extends but most agree that obama cant just go to war, that there is now no more immediate and present danger so they do need a new authorization to strike in syria. And just to be clear, even for the calls of these individual members of congress to come back, there is no indication from leadership that this is going to happen. No. I mean, i think exactly the opposite, the perspective in leadership has been we will wait a while to do this. From the washington times, jacqueline is the capitol Hill Reporter for the publication and saying congress should come back and debate new authorization for iraq and syria and ms. Klimas thanks for your time. Thank you. For the next 45 minutes we would like to get your thoughts on if congress currently on break should come back and debate on this issue, should vote to give the authorization to president obama, a new authorization for policy in iraq and syria and to get your thoughts on it as well. We divide the lines four ways this morning for Typical Party lines for democrats, 2025853880. For republicans 2025853881. For independent 2025853882. And those of you who are iraq and afghanistan veterans who have that perspective and want to give your thoughts on congress and they should offer another debate on this type of policy, 2025853883. You heard our guest on the phone saying that both sides of the aisle debating on this kind of act and progressive caucus put out the statement on the 25th of this month saying that Speaker Boehner should recognize the gravity of the situation and call members of congress back to washington to vote on the on going military actions in iraq and syria. Congress needs to fulfill constitutional duties by having a debate and vote on use of military force that is tailored to the specific actions and military authorization from a decade ago should not justify war policy today and aware of any expanded military campaign and voices should be heard through their elective representatives. First up on the phones from arkansas this is robert on our independent line. Robert, good morning. Yes, good morning, pedro. And ill say three yeses, yes, congress should call back to session right now, yes, they should vote to approve the air strikes and the military in syria and iraq and, yes, they should vote positively, vote yes to authorize the military action. Thank you. Before you go, why do you support the action . Why do you support approval . Well, its like what several congressmen have said already, Congress Needs to exercise its constitutional duty and to help the president exercise his constitutional and commanderinchief duties. Chris, on our democrats line youre next, good morning, go ahead, please. How are you doing . Fine thank you. Congress should come back and dont wait for the president to tell you to come back, you know where your job is. Backup the country because if you just let it go, you dont know what these guys are capable of. Why wait for a disaster before making a move. So you would support if they came back and voted and debated and authorized and you would support that . Absolutely because these guys you dont know who is coming back. You can have all the security in the world, all it takes is one person to hurt thousands and look what happened with alqaeda. Clinton and all these guys had a chance to grab him. Osomabinladen and they let it go and we know how it ended up. We know extremist, you got to flush them out and all there is too it. Current actions in iraq and syria are done under use of military force, this was pass in 2001 and a little bit about it it was enacted after the september 11 attack and the main source of congressional authorization for the war on terror and it grants the president the quote authority under the constitution to take action to deter and prevent acts of International Terrorism against the United States. Thats the current authorization and current activities are going under and some say they need new acts and congress coming back to debate just that. North carolina democrats line and this is arnold, hello. Good morning. Lisen i think they should come back and debate, have a vote and should not be up staged by the British Parliament. I mean, it is shameful we got, you know, that we are leading all this thing and the british come in and just say, hey, we want to vote on it and they took a vote on it and they was up standing citizens of britain and here we dont have the up standing citizenship in our congress. You know, i think if they vote i think they should vote against it because that is my opinion because america has tolerated violence terrorism through it and within side it so long to look like hypocrites talking about terrorism. At the bundy ranch that the armed protesters, i mean armed protesters with multiple kind of an automatic weaponry made the police leave there and not too many months later the same protesters or some of the same protesters went to las vegas, nevada and gunned down two Police Officers. I mean, they didnt be head them but they gunned them down eating their lunch. That is arnold from North Carolina and dan from texas republican line, good morning. Good morning. I believe congress should come back in but in fairness to all the attacks on Speaker Boehner i dont see attacks by the left wing media or anybody coming on your shows on cs pchl cspan talking about the senate and i believe they should come back and the president for the first time in office he showed some form of uncowardness acting toward what we should do. But i find it hard to follow him because i dont know whether he is doing this out of political reasoning or for actual security of the nation, thank you. Fleet wood and asking if congress should be called back to debate on iraq and syria policy. Yes, sir, good morning. Good morning. I think congress should come back after making all that noise about how many times they asked president obama was on vacation should come back. This is the most important thing we are about to get involved in is war. And for congress not to come back and support the president on Something Like this, its just like i dont understand what our politics are. Our politics are supposed to be about unity as far as what we are going to go in a situation like this. How would you back or i guess what would you be looking for the debate, would you support the president s actions . I support his action. Im a vietnam veteran and i dont like war at all. I think a war is something that we should try to avoid at all costs but sometimes you have to do some things and i think that you need to back it in the whole United States on this kind of action. He asked for it and we ought to give it to him. Even as members of parliament we are debating this issue outside of parliament and there were protesters and photos by will oliver by press photo agency that appear in the New York Times, people carrying signs dont bomb iraq and David Cameron making his case in the house of commons yesterday on this resolution. Here is a little bit from his statement yesterday. In the space of a few months isil has taken control of territory which is greater than the size of britain and making millions selling oil to the assad regime and already attacked lebanon and boasts of designs right up to the turkish border. This is not a threat on the far side of the world. Left unchecked we will face a terrorist counter face on the shores of the mediterranean and bordering a nato to attack our country and our people. This is not the stuff of fant y fantasy. Its happening in front of us and we need to face up to hit. If you go to the section of the Financial Times this morning, they write about the decision on incoherent strategy for combatting isis and they got together and wrote days of cross political bargaining saddled with an incoherent posture and fighting isis over iraq and not syria ties commanders hands in the field and raises questions about britain reliability when fighting starts. That is in uk. Should Congress Come back and debate new authorization for activities in iraq and syria and democrats line and jerry you are up next, hello. Good morning. Good morning. Listen, yes, i think they should come back and do their job. I mean, come on, that is what they are getting paid for and plus in addition to that there should be a war tax put on the people of the United States and we should be supporting it and have a little skin in the game. Its not just the military that has the responsibility. The tax could by dont care if its 1 a year on somebody who doesnt have nothing and people who have more should give the most and should be a war tax. Not just 1 volunteer army responsibility. Should Congress Grant the president new authority on iraq and syria . Absolutely and they should come back and do their job and vote on this. They should put some skin in the game. I dont know what they are doing, why they are on vacation, whether they are campaigning or whether they are having these town hall meetings, that is fine. But they also probably are not working really very hard, come on, they need to go back and do their job. David is from madison heights, michigan joining on the democrats line. Good morning and thank you for taking my call. I definitely think that they should be called back. I dont think the president should call them back. I think the speaker of the house should call them back. Its quite obvious republicans cant keep us safe anyway. But the i ronic thing and id like to make a very quick point, if failure boehner called back congress to vote to get rid of obamacare, they would take planes, trains and everywhere to get there immediately. But when america has a crisis like right now and is threatened all over the world, Congress Plays their games. Republicans, wake up and keep us safe. Get back to washington. Thank you very much. Hi mish. On that report off of twitter adds this to the conversation this morning saying of Course Congress should come back and debate the pros and cons of going to war and vote on it before the election. And voters should demand it. We will hear next from elizabeth in farmington, michigan, democrats line, hello. Thanks for taking my call and im glad i am sharing the air waves with other people who think they should come back, i would like them to come back and debate this and at least give a voice to those of us who would rather see them find alternatives. There were plenty of us that were against the iraq war and wanted to see some communication and discussion like we used to do. Get to a table, face each other, find out what our terms are and quit treating this like we are back in the stone age. And this is our only choice. Thank you. Thats elizabeth, again, if you are just joining us we are asking that the body currently on break for the november election should come back and debate new authorization for iraq and syria and if you want to give your thoughts like many have given the lines to call are on the screen. For those iraq and afghanistan vets want to give thoughts as well 2025853883 and many have given opinion they should come back and opinion whether an authorization should be extended and you can do both of that calling us on the lines this morning. Its not only republicans calling for debate and discussion on this very issue. Democrats as well. Earlier this week here in washington d. C. At the center for American Progress tim cane on the Armed Services committee talked about the need for a vote on military action in iraq and syria, im sorry. Here are some of his statements. When we initiate military action we are asking young men and women and some not so young men and women to risk their lives and some will be killed and some will be injured and some will be captured and some will see those things happen to their comrades and some who none of those things happen to because of what they do to others will come back with challenges of Mental Health that may follow them for the rest of their lives. Thats what we are asking these thousands of virginia people from the institute and not ask but order them to do when we initiate military action. What right do we have to ask that sacrifice of anyone if we are not willing to have that tough debate, contentious though it may be and stand before our public and vote yes or no. Back to the phone lines, this is theresa from illinois. Our independent line, hi. Hi. I think that congress should come back and vote, no, for the simple fact that, first of all, Congress Just came back in august and now they are on vacation again so they need to come back and do their job and they should vote no because the americans, british and france created these people. First they went to libya, gave them weapons and over through gadhafi in a barbaric way and complaining them to coming to americas. Is that good whether they think these people would do. They wanted them to over throw assad but it didnt workout like that. Now they in iraq with the oil fields, the british and the american oil companies, now they want to bomb them. I just think that our Service People should not be used to fight wars for these oil companies. If the country is in danger, yes. But this is not a danger. This is Corporate America going over trying to take oil from other people and i just dont think our servicemen and women should be over there. What do you think of activities stemming from 911 stemming from 2001, 2002 . It should not stand today because it would the whole 911 when they went to iraq i just think that that was the answer. I dont think that it was what they said it was and i dont think it should stand now because we have the American People have to stand up and be educated as to what our government is telling us and if you look at history as all the stuff that this country plans from britain out of all people talking about terrorism and the terrorism those three cast upon the world its a joke. Jerry up next, from chicago, Illinois Democrats line. Jerry from chicago, hello. We will try calvin. Calvin is from delaware, independent live, good morning. Calvin go ahead you are on. Yes, hello. My name is calvin, im from brooklyn but live in newark and this whole isis crisis is really a Propaganda Campaign that is bei being instigated by the powerful elite and this is just a smoke screen to basically sensati sensationalize and prepare us for another u. S. Attack and we know from 911 what our government is capable of doing. The truth is out there, people. We need to wake up and understand that the truth is out there. This is m