Posted on 01/05/2020 6:25:01 AM PST by EyesOfTX
It’s all so predictable and tiresome, but exactly what we should expect from these people. – The Democrats and their corrupt toadies in the nation’s fake news media are pushing a ridiculous narrative in the wake of President Trump’s order to take out Iranian Revolutionary Guard terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani with a drone strike at the Baghdad International Airport. It is a narrative that is doomed to become an epic fail.
The narrative basically goes like this: President Trump should have consulted congressional leaders in advance of taking any action. His failure to do so creates a constitutional crisis and may be a “war crime.” He also must provide a more specific, detailed public explanation for the reasons why he decided Soleimani had to be taken out, including the public revelation of the intelligence information relied upon. The detestable hack Chris Wallace is in fact pushing this very narrative on Fox News Sunday in his interview with Sec. State Mike Pompeo as this piece is being written.
All of which is just another steaming pile of smelly horse manure brought to you by your friends at the Democrat/media/Deep State Axis of Disinformation.
First, on the question of some presidential “obligation” to notify congressional leaders in advance of a drone strike on Islamic terrorists: That all went out the window when the Democrat Party’s leaders clearly began to demonstrate they have a higher loyalty to the terrorist than they do to our country. Let’s all remember this from May, 2018:
Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 ✔ @JackPosobiec #BREAKING New photos emerge of 3 Iranians who held secret meeting with John Kerry yesterday in Paris
View image on TwitterView image on TwitterView image on Twitter 11.3K 8:15 AM - May 13, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy 10.8K people are talking about this Remember? Former Obama Secretary of State John Kerry spent days in Paris meeting with Iranian leaders, advising them on ways to thwart President Trump and his official U.S. foreign policy. And Kerry is far from the only Democrat who has been engaged in this kind of subversive activity during the Trump Administration.
President Trump, in this instance, actually had an obligation to U.S. national security NOT to inform any Democrat in advance of taking this action for the simple fact that he knows without any doubt that no Democrat in Washington can be trusted any longer with U.S. national security secrets. He knows that within 5 minutes of informing a Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi of a pending action, that information would have appeared on CNN or at the New York Times or Washington Post websites.
Yes, presidents in the past – you know, back when Democrat leaders were actually loyal Americans – have traditionally tried to inform congressional leaders of both parties in advance of significant military actions, but there is simply no governing legal authority mandating that he do so. As we noted here a few days ago, Barack Obama his own self authorized hundreds, if not thousands, of drone strikes on terrorist targets during his eight years in office without notifying anyone in congress, and no Democrat ever expressed any concern about it.
For the very same reasons mentioned above, if President Trump’s action was a “war crime,” then what of Obama? What about George W. Bush and Bill Clinton? Sorry, Dems, that cat don’t flush.
Then there this contention about the President having some obligation to offer a more detailed explanation of the reasons behind the strike on Soleimani, including the somewhat stunning contention that he must release the highly-classified intelligence information he relied upon in making his decision. This from the same political party that still refuses to release the transcripts of all of its Soviet-style impeachment witness interrogations, mind you.
The Administration, through Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the President himself, has already laid out its reasons for taking action in general terms. More specific, detailed information about Soleimani and his myriad terrorist actions over the past few decades can be found in the guest piece published here Sunday morning (Quassem Soleimani, the IRGC, and why the “General” had to die).
Obviously, the President has zero obligation to the Democrats or anyone else to publish highly-classified intelligence information that would without any doubt at all put U.S. or Israeli intelligence sources in severe danger (which may actually be the goal behind these Democrat requests). But Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw, himself a veteran of several tours in the Middle East as a Navy Seal, may have handled it better than anyone in response to a tweet by the despicable Democrat clown Eric Swalwell:
Dan Crenshaw ✔ @DanCrenshawTX Ok, I’ll take this one:
1. They just attacked our Embassy 2. War Powers Resolution 3. Disrupt their systematic escalation of violence against us and ensure they know attacks will be met with consequences.
Pretty simple. https://twitter.com/repswalwell/status/1213245328712855552 …
Rep. Eric Swalwell ✔ @RepSwalwell Replying to @RepSwalwell The President must show Americans whatever specific intelligence he has to support his action; a legal justification for acting without proper congressional authorization for military force; & a strategic rationale w/ a concrete plan for dealing with its inevitable consequences.
25.6K 10:14 PM - Jan 4, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 7,547 people are talking about this Oof.
Note that Swalwell also demands that the President inform the public – and thus the Islamic terrorists who run Iran – in advance of his “concrete plan for dealing with its [turning Soleimani into a fine, pink mist] consequences.”
Yeah, that’s just stupid, dude. Not happening.
Bottom line: The Democrat/media/deep state Axis of Disinformation is pushing a stupid, shameful, epic failure of a narrative in the wake of a killing that any American with functioning synapses in their cranium will continue to celebrate.
Losers, all of them.
That is all.
Didn’t the media also “warn” us of consequences when we took out Bin Laden? Of course, they never complained about Obummer doing that like they are now with Trump.
Anyone who sees this RAT behavior as “new”, should remember that we were successfully tracking Islamic Terrorists until good ol’ Senator Patrick (Leaky) Leahy spilled the beans in a televised new conference.
I understand that there is an ongoing investigation to determine if and how much the Democrat Party and MSM are associated with the USA.
What failure?
They won’t lose any market share to competitors (if there’re competitors)
“Former Obama Secretary of State John Kerry spent days in Paris meeting with Iranian leaders, advising them on ways to thwart President Trump and his official U.S. foreign policy. “
Kerry has a history as a private citizen of showing up uninvited on the enemy side of the table, whethern Vietnam or Iran. Perhaps he was in the car with Suliemani when Suliemani was sucking on that hellfire. I can’t think of a better way of enforcing the Logan Act
Carter,
Kerry,
Leahy’s treachery.
On Display.
Such coordinated evil in this country. What a great phrase from the article. Updating my tagline:
Axis if disinformation is a good term. Yesterday, the headlines read “Trump condemns Secretary of State John F. Kerry meetings overseas to gather information.”
I’ve spoken to several liberals about this ... NONE of whom realized that the Iranian general we killed was in Iraq leading the storming of our Iraqi embassy.
They didn’t know the two things were connected. They thought we just murdered an Iranian leader in vengeance and that’s an evil act of war. Most didn’t know that storming an embassy WAS an act of war, either.
. . . and are reaching new heights/depth of batshit lunacy. This from a reporter who appears to have had sexual fantasies about Suleimani:
"Suleimani, a flamboyant former construction worker and bodybuilder with snowy white hair, a dapper beard, and arching salt-and-pepper eyebrows, gained notice during the eight-year war with Iraq, in the nineteen eighties".
She forgot the bit about his curly chest hair.
Mother of God, what's wrong with these people?
Salami was obviously a huge cog in Satan’s plans to disrupt the world. Satan’s anger is reflected by his minions on earth.
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