Posted on 03/28/2025 2:18:38 PM PDT by RandFan
In an interview this morning with RS, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said there was clearly "no urgency" for U.S. military airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, now in their 13th day. Therefore, the administration should have gone to Congress for authorization and without it, those strikes are illegal.
Massie pointed to Vice President J.D. Vance's contribution to the now infamous signal chat which described the strikes as they were happening. "JD" as identified in the chat, which has been authenticated by the administration, among other points, said that "there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc.”
"(Vance's) contribution there was to prove that there was no urgency, and that there were no U.S. troops that were in imminent danger, that needed to be defended. Which is the instance in which you might allow the president to engage in hostilities — if it was in self-defense and urgent, and before they had time to come to Congress," Massie told RS. " But they obviously, based on that signal chat, had time to come to Congress, but they chose not to."
Massie said there may be some effort in the House to push for a War Powers Act vote or for defunding the U.S. military operations in Yemen
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He’s becoming Mitch McConnell 2.0
This guy is loathsome. We need to start finding his replacement now.
WOW 😳😯
I support Massie but don’t support the Houthis.
They shoot at Israel so Trump is supporting Israel
However, the Saudis fought the Houthis for many years like we are right now with heavy bombing using bombs considered violations of international law blah blah blah.
The Houthis kept shooting missiles at Saudi Arabia and the Emirates in retaliation.
All these attacks do is trigger Houthi missile fire, drone attacks on Israel.
Somebody might just want that to the be outcome because it was the predictable outcome from the beginning.
Now who is on trial for corruption in Israel and under investigation by Israel’s AG over his aides getting money from Qatar?
“Massie said there may be some effort in the House to push for a War Powers Act vote or for defunding the U.S. military operations in Yemen”
ok do it then.
Congress makes war the president is not a king and & doesnt gets to decide he commands the troops only
Dan Crenshaw has a deeper throat IMHO.
Thomas Massie casts lone Republican vote against US sanctions on Iran
Massie shares the same values as the squad does when it comes to foreign policy
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Cori Bush
This was in response to the first missile attack on a MANNED F-16. Not one but 3 SA-6’s. The pilot had 18 seconds to evade , tell me again about no troops being in danger.
if it wasn’t for superior countermeasures , we be burying a US Air Force Pilot.
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Where was the fighter jet location when the attack occurred?
If it’s in the Red Sea, a case can be made for a counter attack.
If it occurred over Yemen.......what else would you expect?
Well thought out moderate comment...
Then you disagree with Trump using the aliens enemies act to deport Venezuelan gang members.
The F-16 was over 50 miles from the coast and over the Red Sea
They shoot at Israel so Trump is supporting Israel
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Now, all of this makes sense.
Massie is like taking a shot of tequila, it was pretty nice at the beginning but later you regretted it.
The F-16 was over 50 miles from the coast and over the Red Sea
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Thanks, I was unaware of this.
The other side will say:
“We thought it was an Israeli jet.”
They touched our boats. That makes it time for them to die. As long as it’s not “proportional”.
Massie just wants to be on meet the press this Sunday.
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