Liberals defending Hitler in 1941, not much has changed...
Posted on 01/05/2020 11:21:22 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump officially notified Congress on Saturday of the drone missile strike that killed a top Iranian general in Iraq, in a move that checks off a key legal box but left Democrats with even more questions about the president’s motives.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the notification is classified, so the details can’t be made public. She called that a “highly unusual” move that shields an important conversation from public view.
“This document prompts serious and urgent questions about the timing, manner and justification of the Administration’s decision to engage in hostilities against Iran,” the California Democrat said.
The missile strike assassinated Qassem Soleimani, who as head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is blamed for orchestrating terrorist attacks and insurgencies that have cost American lives.
Few Americans defend the general.
But Mrs. Pelosi called killing him “provocative, escalatory and disproportionate.”
“This initiation of hostilities was taken without an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Iran, without the consultation of the Congress and without the articulation of a clear and legitimate strategy to either the Congress or the public,” she said.
The administration says it had the power to conduct the strikes under the 2002 AUMF approved by Congress to permit then-President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq.
White House and Defense Department officials say Soleimani was actively plotting more attacks that could have killed Americans.
No specifics have been revealed.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The Democrats in Congress are going to bitch no matter what.
And by revealing to them the justification he undercut their arguments. And yet their tongue is held by the confidentiality.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
I do think she has lost it.
Dems are crazy.
Iran has been waging an asymmetrical war against America for the last 40 years.
Plus...
In May of this year The Guardian had an article about Suleimani‘s very public plan to wage proxy wars against the West.
Makes you wonder WTH these pearl clutches worrying about Suleimani‘s death escalating into a war have been.
We are already there.
What is the over/under?
Leaked by rats in 3...2...1...
Perfectly fine with me. Let the President, the military, and Pompeo run the war. It’s their job.
Or not, which would mean they took it seriously and President Trump was justified.
We'll know by their leaks, or lack of.
-PJ
Liberals defending Hitler in 1941, not much has changed...
That all changed on June 22, 1941, when their beloved Soviet Union was attacked.
“And yet their tongue is held by the confidentiality.”
Shifty Schiff will find a way to leak it!
The Schiffheel will make up his own version of it and read THAT into the Congressional Record.
“”She called that a “highly unusual” move that shields an important conversation from public view.””
Must be she doesn’t remember saying something similar about the president’s call to Ukraine last year...he called her bluff, didn’t he? He’s a better poker player than she is!
Yep - it probably includes intelligence sources that would suffer if fully disclosed....Nancy knows this and also agrees that they can’t even be leaked w/o causing damage to the leakers too so she bloviates that he’s hiding something with full knowledge that the truth is safe.
Hopefully he provided individually identifiable copies to each member of congress. Watermarks or font patterns. If one of these were to make it to the press, the traitor could be identified and held accountable.
Plus - Nancy intimated that “he’s hiding it from Congress and the People” which might indicate only a small number of them have access...easier to whittle it down to potential sources ...
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