Rashida Tlaib accuses president of starting unnecessary war with Iran

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Here's what she had to say in response to the US air strike that killed an Iranian general in Iraq. “We cannot stay silent as this lawless President recklessly moves us closer to yet another unnecessary war that puts innocent lives at risk at home & across the globe. Congress alone has the authority to declare war, & we must reclaim our responsibility & say no to war with Iran,” posted Tlaib on Twitter.

First of all, Trump didn't declare war on Iran. If you want to get technical, Iran declared war on the US by utilizing the now deceased general to organize terrorist attacks against US military personnel in Syria and Iraq. Trump authorized the air strike in retaliation to a recent attack on a military base that resulted in one American dead and several others wounded. The president was acting under authorization granted by Congress in 2002; H.J.Res.114 - Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002. This law has not been rescinded by Congress.

Now let's get really technical here and look at the drone strikes ordered by Obama during his eight years in office. Obama embraced the US drone program, overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency. A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen during Obama’s two terms, compared to 57 strikes under Bush. Between 384 and 807 civilians were killed in those countries, according to reports logged by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. https://www.thebureauinvestigates.c...r-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush Many of Obama's drone strikes were conducted by the CIA with authorization granted by Obama. Did Congress authorize Obama to conduct these strikes? No. Was Obama obligated to inform any Congressional members prior to a strike? No. What authorized Obama to conduct these strikes was the Presidential Policy Guidance; a document created by members of his administration and signed by him. Did congressional members of the Democratic Party express outrage of Obama's drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, Syria, and Somalia? No.

President Trump did away with the PPG and replaced it with his Principles, Standards, and Procedures document. The PSP establishes a requirement that strikes will not take place if there is a likelihood of civilian casualties. Obama's PPG didn't really care if a strike would result in civilian casualties. Essentially Trump is conducting strikes against high value targets utilizing the same methods as Obama, but with greater care to eliminate civilian casualties. So why are Democratic Party members of Congress so upset with a strike in Iraq that killed an Iranian general who was known to be organizing terrorists attacks against American citizens in Iraq and Syria? The answer is simply they hate Trump that much.
 
There is certainly a good chance that Iran will retaliate but, if you have the chance to take out someone like this guy with his history of terrorist actions, you take it. Obama and Bush had opportunities in the past but failed to pull the trigger. Trump did the right thing and it was legal.
 
Yesterday the USA Today was the worst. They had a picture on the front page that was rubble...red stained fabric... men digging through all the mess.

The headline reads: TRAGEDY IN THE RUBBLE. Above that was a red highlighted inset box with white writing...SHOW OF FORCE A USA NETWORK INVESTIGATION

To the left of the photo was a slim news story column with the headline Tension between US, Iran escalate

The photo was from 2008! Got it... Bush bad,

"Scores of civilians dead and 60 children.... Got it horrible ...Children CHILDREN!

It was set up to look like Trump did it... it was a story of how a raid that was seen as unjust, was investigated and on and on.

I pointed it out to one of my young employees (her boyfriend is in the Marines) She said yeah, my boyfriend says everyone always says World War III is imminent, but it is not.

She is the demographic that would, and probably still will vote for a democrat... but dating this young man in the military has opened her eyes a little. She still gets a news feed on her phone from MSNBC I think... so her news is slanted, but she is aware of current events.

She knows Soleimani is a bad one and it was good they took him out.
 
Trump Is NOT Obama

“Perhaps it would have been a better idea to send him (Soleimani) $1.7 billion in unmarked bills, in pallets on planes in the dead of night, so he could kill more Americans?” Ted Cruz rips the Obama Administration

Let’s not forget how Iran was enriched after billions in sanctions were removed, thanks to Obama’s Iran nuclear deal. Let’s not forget Obama’s outrageous ransom payment to that theocratic nation.

Four American hostages were released after Obama delivered $1.7 billion in untraceable cash on pallets. Let’s not forget that he allowed Iran to make currency exchanges for dollars, thus allowing them access to west’s financial system and billions of dollars more. Was any of this money funneled into Iran’s proxy wars of terror? Of course it was.

Obama’s weakness, stupidity, and fawning generosity only encouraged and emboldened Iran to advance their interests in the Middle East by means funding forces such as Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels in Yemen. They also assigned their own Quds Force, which is part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, to engage in nefarious activities outside their own border. According to Wikipedia, the Quds Force reports directly to the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei. General Soleimani, who was obliterated by Trump’s missile attack, had led the Quds force. The general was responsible for hundreds of American deaths over the past two decades. Now Khamenei wants revenge.

Regardless, Obama’s actions helped finance Iran’s terrorist activities, which led to the deaths of more Americans in the Middle East.

Let’s not forget that.

—Ben Garrison
https://grrrgraphics.com/trump-is-not-obama
 
What gets me is not a word from the media that this Iranian was in BAGDAD. Iraq, not Iran. As I understand it, he had no legitimate reason to be there, yet the media hasn't pointed that out.

Had Trump attacked him in Iran, I'd have an issue with it, but this guy was in the country where his teams were attacking foreign nationals. That spells TARGET.
 
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