Ohmar, Lee, Kaine, announce war powers resolution to prevent war with Iran

[Mountain Man]

Are you calling the Iraqi Prime Minister a liar?

Oh, no! Anything but that!

[Sparko]

Are you calling the Iraqi Prime Minister a liar?

He said that's what his meeting with Suleimani on the morning of the assassination was going to be about.

Well he sure was gullible, wasn't he?

[Sparko]

Seer you are so gullible I feel embarrassed for you. Unnamed sources telling the media that the guy was Totally A Bad Guy who was Totally Going To Do Bad Stuff, and you take that seriously? How do you make it to the end of each day without being conned out of all your money?

The sources are the US Military, and we have known he was "Totally a Bad Guy" for many years. Obama had him sanctioned for Terrorism long before Trump blew him up.


Obama Sanctioned Soleimani for Attempted Terror Attack in Washington, DC

https://www.breitbart.com/national-s...ashington-d-c/

[Sparko]

"secrecy"

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You're a complete lunatic. You're just asserting that the top congresspeople who have been getting classified briefings for years, would randomly just go out and break the law by leaking a key state secret. And basic on nothing except your own lack of braincells.

Weren't you just chiding Seer about unnamed sources?

[Cow Poke]

Seer you are so gullible I feel embarrassed for you. Unnamed sources telling the media that the guy was Totally A Bad Guy who was Totally Going To Do Bad Stuff, and you take that seriously? How do you make it to the end of each day without being conned out of all your money?

Star, have you spent even 5 minutes trying to find out who this man is, and what he has done? Is your hatred for Trump so intense that you have to de-demonize a terrorist?

[JimL]

Translation: "I'm not a constitutional scholar; I just play one on the internet."

In fact, the Constitution gives the President of the United States the authority to use military action without informing Congress and without formally declaring war. Just because the Democrats call it "an act of war" because one of their terrorist buddies was taken out doesn't make it so.

https://thefederalist.com/2017/05/04...king-congress/

If General Mattis had been assassinated by Iran would you consider that an act of war?

[Bill the Cat]

If General Mattis had been assassinated by Iran would you consider that an act of war?

Has General Mattis plotted with terrorist cells to carry out attacks specifically on civilians?

[seer]

If General Mattis had been assassinated by Iran would you consider that an act of war?

If he was killed in the mist of a conflict then no. And that was a conflict with Iran as an enemy.

[Bill the Cat]

Trump is legally required to inform congress of such actions.

Stay in New Zealand, you ignorant leftist. Trump is under NO compulsion to notify Congress of military strikes against lawful combatants.

[Cow Poke]

If General Mattis had been assassinated by Iran would you consider that an act of war?

No, it would be a major escalation in a war we're already in.

[rogue06]

"secrecy"

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You're a complete lunatic. You're just asserting that the top congresspeople who have been getting classified briefings for years, would randomly just go out and break the law by leaking a key state secret. And basic on nothing except your own lack of braincells.

Saying to someone that you can expect "big" action on Iran "soon" is hardly the same thing. In fact it isn't even close. Given Trump's past actions the first thing to expect is increased sanctions. And of course we wouldn't know when, just the nebulous "soon."

As for "top congresspeople" releasing classified information... One of the leading Democrats in the Senate, Patrick Leahy, has long been known as "Leaky Leahy" because of his habit of doing just that. In 1987 he leaked the Reagan administration's operational plans to topple Muammar Gaddafi to the MSM which forced the cancelling of the operation. His leaking got so bad that eventually he was forced to step down from the Senate Intelligence Committee where he was the top Democrat.

And then of course there is Adam Schiff who regularly released information deemed classified in his attempt to get Trump.

Further, it isn't always the elected official but someone on their staff. Sort of like what we saw during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings which resulted in two Democrat Senate staffers being convicted of leaking information with one, Jackson Cosko^[1], being sentenced to four years behind bars.






1. Not sure exactly who he was working for at the time but he's been a senior staffer for Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer as well as Sheila Jackson Lee, a member of the House Judiciary Committee.

[Starlight]

Trump is under NO compulsion to notify Congress of military strikes against lawful combatants.

The second most powerful person in leadership in a country is not a "lawful combatant" by any stretch of the imagination, mr dung-for-brains.

[rogue06]

Star, have you spent even 5 minutes trying to find out who this man is, and what he has done? Is your hatred for Trump so intense that you have to de-demonize a terrorist?

Soleimani is joining a long list of bloody handed monsters revered by the left. He is being enshrined with the likes "Uncle Joe" Stalin (who Star still claims was a right winger ) and Mao. I'm old enough to remember all the leftists running about carrying the latter's Little Red Book and spouting quotes from it in response to virtually everything (the Beatles even mocked folks like that in one of their songs).

[rogue06]

The second most powerful person in leadership in a country is not a "lawful combatant" by any stretch of the imagination, mr dung-for-brains.

Under Iran's just declared "rules" he is. They just said that "military targets" (and that would include generals) are fair game.

[lilpixieofterror]

The second most powerful person in leadership in a country is not a "lawful combatant" by any stretch of the imagination, mr dung-for-brains.