Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) joined Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation to speak on the attacks of the two tankers last week in the Gulf of Oman. Cotton said, “These unprovoked attacks on commercial shipping warrant a retaliatory military strike.”
Brennan asked the Senator if he believes the President could attack Iran without getting authorization from congress first, to which Cotton replied, “Yes, Margaret. Going back to President Washington and all the way down to President Trump, the fastest way to get the fire and fury of the U.S. military unleashed on you is to interfere with the freedom of navigation on the open seas and in the air.”
Cotton referenced an inconclusive, grainy, black and white video released by U.S. Central Command last week as proof the Iranians were responsible for the attack, “Everybody can see with their own two eyes, those Iranian sailors going up to a ship and taking a mine off of it.”
The Senator repeated another unsubstantiated claim the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made, “they’ve increased their support on attacks on American troops by supporting a Taliban attack in Afghanistan.” The attack in question is a car bomb blast that occurred on May 31st, targeting a convoy of U.S. troops. The Taliban took responsibility immediately after the attack, and Pompeo offered no evidence that Iran was involved. The Taliban using car bombs against U.S. troops is nothing new.
Brennan did not challenge Cotton on any of these claims, instead she changed the topic to recent comments by Trump about possibly listening to foreigners if they have any dirt on his political opponents.
When can we do a military strike on pencil necked Israel-Firster Tommy Boy Cotton ? That’s what I’d like to know.
Took the words right out of my mouth, Vic. I would add only that if Iranian operatives in the U.S. seek to avenge any fulfilled and horrific wet dream of Senator Tom Cotton’s, they first pay the Senator a visit before considering any other retribution on American soil..
Mr. Cotton is free to join the Israeli Army.
And once he does that, pencil-necked Cotton can stay there and lose both his Senate seat and US citizenship. That guy’s a total lunatic anyway, and the people who elected him have low IQ’s.
That boy Banjo Tommeh Cotton, he one sick puppeh.
Tom Cotton is a bought and paid for Zionist lackey who sold his soul to tyranny, corruption and mendacity when he was elected. He is a Likudnik, and represents the ever anti-American Sheldon Adelson.
Aren’t they all?
The significant part is that he seems to be pretty lonely on this in Congress.
The real alarm will start if Pompeo goes to the UN general assembly to present a case for war against Iran.
Senator Tom Cotton Calls For Strikes Against Iran
Who let Senator Tom Cotton picken crazy out of his straight jacket?
We’ve seen this all before – in the run up to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
The Iran war is a done deal. It’s just a question of when and how it gets started – and whether an attack on Lebanon’s Hezbollah is in the cards first. And no one can stop it.
Cotton is always thirsty for war, and he’s always wrong, wrong, wrong. But i guess being a boot licking toady for arms contractors means never having to say you’re sorry.
Tom Cotton, the geeky BU#T boy of BiBi. Someone should remind him he swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the USA. 🙂
This is hardly news.Tom Cotton is another Lindsay Graham or John McCain.