House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has announced that the House will have a floor vote on Thursday on a War Powers Resolution that aims to limit President Trump’s unilateral actions against Iran and reassert Congressional authority over the matter.
The resolution would rebuke President Trump for killing Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani without authorization, calling it a “disproportionate” act that endangered US troops, diplomats, and others.
More importantly, the resolution notes that there has been no Congressional authorization for striking Iran, and directs the President to stop engaging in hostilities with Iran until there is specific authorization from Congress.
House Republican leaders are dismissing the resolution, saying that there is no chance of it becoming law, nor any requirement for the president to comply with it. The administration has similarly dismissed the idea, saying that having informed Congress of the attack is all they needed to do.
Those wishing to contact their representative to express support for preventing a war on Iran can find the contact information here. If you are unsure who your representative is, the contact information can be found here.
“The Democrat-authored resolution would reassert congressional authority”
so does that mean all the current undeclared war will be over?
You’re being rhetorical, but they pretend the rest is authorized.
There have been attempts to retire the war on terror authorization, including a statement from Obama to retire it also. I think you know why it is still there.
cough cough libya
Good. Ya, Obama mistake, which he has admitted. The book hasn’t been written, or shown, as to the period of the arab spring.
The arab spring was primarily caused by the influx of millions of refugees into countries whose infrastructure could not handle the strain. (Ironic that the US is infused with fear of immigrants that fill up their bloated grocery stores). These refugees were from Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. When confronted with multiple societies in civil unrest, the Obama decision was to intervene heavily in some, Libya mostly, Syria some, and minority in others. Thankfully, trump was not potus at the time. Certainly, confronted with such challenges, the right was going to chastise the administration no matter what choices were made. With Iraqi civil unrest this month, the trump administration answered with assassination of 2 nations political leaders. Who knows how it would respond to unrest across the entire mideast.
Obama was stuck with having to respond to the refugee crisis caused by the gop wars in the middle east. It is akin to blaming the janitor for the mess.
Looks like the US needs a new janitor to attempt to clean up the mess from the current GOP administration. Sure glad their lobbies got lots of goodies.
i honestly don’t know what you are talking about.
the arab spring has nothing to do with the refugee crisis, it started from
wikileaks revealing all the corruption on the tunis government, which
led to a man burning himself infront of the capital, which then turned
in to nation wide protest, that then spread to other countries.
obama did not side with protesters in libya, he sided with al qaeda who had
no capacity to threaten the libyian state so we bombed it until a few
hundred men in pickup trucks could storm the capital.
you can find reporters at the time talking about how there were more reporters on the front lines then fighters.
” It is akin to blaming the janitor for the mess.”
Obama ran on escalating the afganistan war.
his mess
obama tried his hardest to not comply with the Bush SOFA that had all us troops out of iraq by 2011
his mess
Syria (the last uprising lasted 2 months) but thanks to obama caring about
refugees a group of jihadist that was running out of ammo in 2011
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/syrian-rebels-running-out-of-ammunition-as-government-presses-offensive/2012/03/22/gIQA05CNUS_story.html)
managed to hold on to parts of the syria for a decade.
Interesting you don’t think millions of war refugees dont affect anything, but Wikileaks do…..
I never said Obama didn’t own his mistakes, in fact it’s in my first sentence.
yes i think that the war in libya and supporting jihadist in syria had zero to do with the amount of refugees in Europe, and both conflict only exacerbated the problem.
yah you said he owned his mistakes then you gave wrong reason for them.
and if your concerned about trumps assassination campaign you should be more hard on the person who normalized and legalized executive assassination programs
The refugee problem in Europe was caused by the civil wars across the Mideast caused by the arab spring. Arab spring was caused by the flight of war refugees from the US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and from Palestine. Two separate instances. Note that Turkey’s prime interest in northern Syria, is the return of a million Syrian refugees, whom also include refugees from Iraq etc.
Ahh the imperial Senate is giving emperor palpatine some empty push back.
Only empty because there are too many GOP jackbooting around.
If only there were a dem veto-proof congress….
A complete waste of time and unnecessary. What had to be done was done.
Empty exercise. Even if the Senate passes a similar resolution, the Orange One will veto it, and there won’t be enough votes to override his veto. We have at least one more year of bigly criminality.