Trump failed to tell Congress before he attacked Obama's Iranian friend

The President has full power to order a strike on an enemy of the U.S. in case of "a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces." Iran killed Americans and attacked our Embassy. Trump was within every right to proceed without notification of Congress which could have taken too much time and put other American lives at stake. KylieFan is only quoting part of the WAR Powers Act to fit his/her liberal agenda as usual.

There's been tit-for-tat between both sides in Iraq -- including U.S. strikes on Iran-backed militias in Iraq, killing dozens, which was the proximate cause of the storming the U.S. embassy:

"The embassy protest erupted Tuesday, two days after U.S. airstrikes killed at least two dozen Iran-backed fighters in Iraq.Demonstrators shouting 'Death to America!' smashed their way into the embassy compound and set fire to a reception area as U.S. combat helicopters swooped over the complex"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/01/02/us-embassy-baghdad-attack-damage-fort-bragg-deployment/2793781001/

Clearly, these Iraqi demonstrators were sympathetic to Iran, but were they literally ordered by Iran? Probably not. This is not what a well-designed military operation looks like.

The military maneuvers ordered to directly defend the U.S. embassy and its personnel *are* justified as a national emergency created by an attack upon the United States. No one is saying Trump couldn't do that.

However: I've seen no evidence that assassinating Iran's #2, who was miles away, by drone was a necessary act that directly saved American lives. This part of the response was retaliation pure and simple. And it represents a major escalation.

Your opinion doesn't matter. According to the War Powers Act, he was well within the powers of his office to act. So go dry your eyes and then re-read the War Powers Act. Without a strong military stance, we would be toast. Don't let your political affiliation rot your brain.

The same people that claimed Assad 'gassed' his own people now claim Iran is responsible for this. Doubt.jpeg

HA HA!

taking out the leader won't defeat them. they'll just get a new leader. probably someone worse

Tell Germans that after the demise of Hitler? Several other terrible despots come to mind. I see a flaw in your statement.

germany wasn't the same as isis. hitler took himself out once he realized he wasn't winning. the taliban (and all those other terrorist groups), on the other hand, have their leaders taken out and the groups still hold.

Isis is barley hanging on. It may take several hits, but you can annihilate a terrorist group or cripple them so badly they can't regain footing. Ignoring a hornets nest while it is small is the danger here. Surely you don't think you should turn a cheek when this monster was responsible for killing many Americans already and intel reported he was planning on many more attacks that would kill far more? He was planning on attacking our warships and a housing facility for our troops! No way Trump could allow that to occur. If he did, lefties would be hollering he should have done more given the intel he was provided with.

The real reason this is wrong is that it is a blatant violation of the War Powers Act, let alone the Constitutional requirement that Congress must declare war which so many presidents have ignored. Not only was there zero congressional debate, Congress wasn't even informed.

The fact that Trump did this just a couple weeks after being impeached is just icing on the cake

what cake... Pelosi won't give the articles of impeachment to congress because she knows Trump won't be impeached because that whole thing was BS, so... Also if Trump would have told anyone, the enemy would have been informed and it wouldn't have been successful. Many American lives could have been lost hadn't Trump done that.

You don’t get to skirt U.S. law and constitutional requirements because of the vague risk that some Americans might die.

That’s the reason we have procedures in place to ensure careful deliberations before acts of war are taken. To ensure more Americans don’t die later.

Not skirting. Well within power to do so! Go back and read, but take your liberal glazed glasses off first!

He wasn't skirting, and it was well within his power to do so. American lives would have been lost if he had done this, you don't think he was justified for attacking. They attacked our embassy libtard. That isn't justified, good thing Trump did some action because I'm sure your lord and savior Nancy Pelosi wouldn't have done anything when stuff needed to get done. The thing about Trump is, he doesn't do BS, he gets things done whether liberals like it or not, and look at the product, our economy is booming, so how about you stick to watching Kylie all day and night and maybe something useful may have been accomplished.

Already answered this in my comment above which I guess you didn't read or you glazed over:

"The military maneuvers ordered to directly defend the U.S. embassy and its personnel *are* justified as a national emergency created by an attack upon the United States. No one is saying Trump couldn't do that.

"However: I've seen no evidence that assassinating Iran's #2, who was miles away, by drone was a necessary act that directly saved American lives. This part of the response was retaliation pure and simple. And it represents a major escalation."

The strike on the general was a different animal entirely compared to the defensive actions taken at the Embassy.

assassinating? I think you've been brainwashed by CNN, that military leader was endangering American lives and when he was killed, it was in retaliation to his attacking our embassy. You libtards are too naive, you just think the worlds a happy little rainbow and nothing bd will happen. But let me sum up some facts and logic for you

People

Do

Bad

Things

so we must retaliate and do bad things back to them so we don't get harmed. Now stop defending a terrorist and start being American. Unless you want to join them commie.

Yes, that's why it was absolutely necessary to go into Iraq to save those poor baby incubators from being smashed!!!!! WAY worse than the wmds that threatened the world.

I’m sorry you dislike the word “assassination,” but that is what it was and it is foolish to pretend otherwise.

Soleimani was not the only Iranian involved in planning and carrying out attacks against Americans. So: Do we kill them all? Even on Iranian soil? Including Iran’s President and Supreme Leader? Where does it end? And why do you think escalating a conflict into a hot war will save Americans?

The better option to keep Americans safe would have been to stick with the JCPOA. Now under Trump we’re in a cycle of retaliation with an unclear end and without Congress being consulted at all.

The American public does not support a full-scale war with Iran, nor do virtually all of our allies around the world.

So your saying we should do nothing who plan to attack the Americans, which means you probably think that America shouldn't have joined the Allies in WWII after Pearl Harbor?

Well, Kylie, I don't think your opinion ranked high enough for our Nations Security to rest upon

Neither did the mounds of “intelligence” leading up to the Iraq War in 2003.