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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Unwritten rule of the seas for hundreds of years.
Trust me :)
Good question. Likely not,
Massie makes sense when you understand his massive Jew-hatred drives him.
We’ve nailed the Houthis. Now let’s get the Blowfish.
LOL.
Massie is a Dem mole.
I doubt it. Massie tends to be a JERK and isn’t much of a CONSERVATIVE, nor even slightly MAGA.
That is interesting on this issue you agree with him considering it’s a fringe position especially here where I am getting so much heat for posting against
VP Vance opinion questions strikes in the Suez where 3% of American shipping flows. EU flow is 40%. Outside foreign entanglement like Ukraine and Suez interferes with MAGA.
Not really. I despise neocons and you don’t hear any of them complaining, do you?
I don’t like jumping out of the gate with the military. Already the first “leak attack” on the new admin was regarding this.
Yeah and it’s a nothing-burger but lame media turn it into a big deal
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Like they give a sh*t
I was going to make a thread but thought better of it because FR is very pro -this action .
The who said what to whom is a nothing burger. WHO CARES.
Sorry. It drives me crazy.
It was good to see JD Vance questioning things though
As if we should appease an attacker and not defend our assets, interests and people when it's only 3%.
Is that the Massie doctrine.
Wow, No!
Yup.
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