Posted on 02/26/2021 6:10:50 AM PST by caww
The US military on Thursday struck a site in Syria used by two Iranian-backed militia groups in response to rocket attacks on American forces in the region in the past two weeks....."Up to a handful" of militants were killed in the strikes, a US official said.
The strikes, which mark the US military's first known action under President Joe Biden, swiftly drew criticism from a Democratic lawmaker. The site was not specifically tied to the rocket attacks but Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said he was "confident" it was used by the same Iranian-backed Shia militias that had fired rockets at US and coalition forces.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the strikes took place "at President Biden's direction" and were authorized not just to respond to the recent attacks against American and coalition forces but also to deal with "ongoing threats to those personnel."
"Specifically, the strikes destroyed multiple facilities located at a border control point used by a number of Iranian-backed militant groups, including Kata'ib Hezbollah and Kata'ib Sayyid Al Shuhada," Kirby said.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that Biden had authorized the strike on Thursday morning, after he had recommended the president take action.
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I heard on NewsMax that there is a report out that Kamala was not informed of this incident. NewsMax did say they did not know if this was true but that this is circulating.
$64 hundred dollar question...as my mom would say!
Yes I realize that I’m just passing the message. Glad you felt the need to shoot me.
Likely through some backdoor, the Zero and VJ are in charge again.
False flag operation by Deep State and/or Cabal?
They’re obviously in disarray trying to make it appear Bidens in charge when those who need to know have no idea who really is in charge. I suspect there’s a power struggle we’re not seeing.
Biden may have put his X on the ORDER but “others” were making the call.
I predict a sort of committee of Pelosi and Schumer for “political” cover and Sec. Austin for military cover.
As Trump said during the debates: “They’re going to run all over you, Joe.”
Who didn’t know he was demented - before the election.
Yet 10s of millions - despite blatant voter fraud - voted for this idiot.
Not In My Name, not n my name will the President attack a country we are not at war. I do not care what fancy words are used, a military strike at another country is an act of war.
You are 100% correct.
Well they’d love to P*ss Putin off as well, plus see Assad out. So it’s really just the continuation of Obama/Hillary push for regime change in Syria.
Yet 10s of millions - despite blatant voter fraud - voted for this idiot.
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Maybe 30-35 million, the rest being stolen from DJT voters or faked.
Is this the same Iran that Biden wants to help with their nuclear program?
Yep!
who’s to say it’s Irans militants?
“Not In My Name, not n my name will the President attack a country we are not at war. I do not care what fancy words are used, a military strike at another country is an act of war.”
Dead commoners are of no consequence to permanent Washington. There is big money to be made from these types of wars.
The site was not specifically tied to the rocket attacks but Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said he was “confident” it was used by the same Iranian-backed Shia militias that had fired rockets at US and coalition forces.
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So what did we strike? Yes I’m biased but there’s no way of knowing what just happened. Here we have the SecDef admitting that they hit something that WAS NOT tied to the recent rocket attacks on Erbil or Balad Air Base but we dropped ordinance on that something anyway.
We have dangerous amateurs in the White House and Pentagon, right now.
And Liz chainee. Don’t forget liz.
Interesting response.......
Rep. Ro Khanna, a California ‘Democrat’ on the House Foreign Affairs Committee..... “There is absolutely no justification for a president to authorize a military strike that is not in self-defense against an imminent threat without congressional authorization. We need to extricate from the Middle East, not escalate.”. “The president should not be taking these actions without seeking explicit authorization instead of relying on broad, outdated” Authorization for Use of Military Force laws, Khanna said. “I spoke against endless war with Trump, and I will speak out against it when we have a Democratic president.”
It explains in the article
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