One of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) first order of business in the new year is to take steps for the House to vote on a resolution to hinder President Trump’s military actions against Iran.
Democrats are outraged with President Trump for not seeking Congressional approval with his order to kill Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in an airstrike last week.
The airstrike followed the pro-Iran demonstrator’s attack earlier last week on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq which caused damage to outer parts of the embassy compound.
Importantly, U.S. intelligence believed Soleimani traveled to Baghdad to initiate additional attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Speaker Pelosi sent a letter to Democrats to introduce a War Powers Resolution, saying the attack was a “provocative and disproportionate military airstrike targeting high-level Iranian military officials.”
The Hill reports:
Pelosi told Democratic members in a letter that the House will introduce a vote on a “War Powers Resolution” mandating that the administration’s military hostilities with regard to Iran would cease within 30 days if no further congressional action is taken.
Speaker Pelosi and other Democrats criticized President Trump for not seeking Congressional approval.
Speaker Pelosi says President Trump carried out the U.S. airstrike that killed a top Iranian commander in Iraq without the consultation of Congress. https://t.co/3FeHQykkJN
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 3, 2020
Soleimani was an enemy of the United States. That’s not a question.
The question is this – as reports suggest, did America just assassinate, without any congressional authorization, the second most powerful person in Iran, knowingly setting off a potential massive regional war?
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) January 3, 2020
Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal demanded “a full explanation.”
Trump Admin owes a full explanation of airstrike reports—all the facts—to Congress&the American people. The present authorizations for use of military force in no way cover starting a possible new war. This step could bring the most consequential military confrontation in decades
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) January 3, 2020
Commenting on the Trump administration and the airstrike, Blumenthal told CNN, “There’s no clear path here. No apparent strategy.”
"There's no clear path here. No apparent strategy," says Sen. Richard Blumenthal on the Trump administration's actions in the Middle East. "The administration seems to be lurching from day to day… that's classically the way wars begin. Tragically, and unfortunately." pic.twitter.com/fGERgp5Dt8
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) January 4, 2020
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren suggested the president’s decision was driven by his interest in distracting Americans from impeachment.
Elizabeth Warren on the Qasem Soleimani strike: "I think that the question that we ought to focus on is why now? Why not a month ago and why not a month from now? And the answer from the administration seems to be that they can't keep their story straight on this." #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/z1stQEjuOu
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) January 5, 2020
Liberal activists also commented on the airstrike.
Not surprising, former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick made the airstrike about racism against “Black and Brown bodies.”
Kaepernick took to social media to bash America calling the attack an act of “American imperialism” against “besieged Black and Brown” people worldwide.
There is nothing new about American terrorist attacks against Black and Brown people for the expansion of American imperialism.
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) January 4, 2020
America has always sanctioned and besieged Black and Brown bodies both at home and abroad. America militarism is the weapon wielded by American imperialism, to enforce its policing and plundering of the non white world.
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) January 4, 2020
However, former Homeland Security head Jeh Johnson, under former President Obama, supported President Trump’s decision.
Former Obama-Biden DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson debunks a Democrat talking point:
"[Soleimani] was a lawful military objective. The President under his Constitutional authority as Commander in Chief had ample domestic legal authority to take him out." pic.twitter.com/pL5M6PFyeg
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 5, 2020
From impeaching and seeking to remove President Trump from office to a War Powers Resolution, Pelosi and other Democrats continue to fight the president and his America First agenda.
