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Biden orders airstrikes on Iran-backed militias near Iraq-Syria border

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"At President Biden's direction, U.S. military forces earlier this evening conducted defensive precision airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region," Kirby said in a statement Sunday. "The targets were selected because these facilities are utilized by Iran-backed militias that are engaged in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks against U.S. personnel and facilities in Iraq."

Kirby said the U.S. acted within its legal rights and said the airstrikes were a matter of self-defense.

"The strikes were both necessary to address the threat and appropriately limited in scope," Kirby's statement said. "As a matter of domestic law, the President took this action pursuant to his Article II authority to protect U.S. personnel in Iraq."
 
No surprises here. I fully expect President Biden to do whatever he feels is necessary to protect US personnel abroad.
 
MamboDervish said:
No surprises here. I fully expect President Biden to do whatever he feels is necessary to protect US personnel abroad.
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I gotta root for the Freedom Fighters on this one.
 
Will Dems in Congress threaten to impeach because of the violation of the War Powers Act?


Will Pelosi put the Wars Powers Resolution back on the table to limit Biden's powers?

Transcript: Impeachment and War

The full episode transcript for Article II: Inside Impeachment, Impeachment and War.
www.nbcnews.com

Look how fast the Left turns hawkish when it's Biden dropping bombs.

Will the House vote to restrain Biden's Iranian war powers?

House Votes to Restrain Trump’s Iran War Powers (Published 2020)

The debate over the resolution reignited a fierce dispute over Congress’s role in matters of war and peace, and highlighted deep disagreements over President Trump’s policy on Iran.
www.nytimes.com
 
Did you even bother to read those links?
 
MamboDervish said:
No surprises here. I fully expect President Biden to do whatever he feels is necessary to protect US personnel abroad.
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Would you be as supportive if Trump had done the same?
Many would say that this is an incitement to Iran.
 
Sagittarius83 said:
Many would say that this is an incitement to Iran.
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(S/I/T) Trump has already caused greater friction with Iran. Iran has become more aggressive because of it. The only option now is to stand up to Iran and hopefully reach diplomatic talks between the US and Iran, in which appears more difficult to achieve.
 
PeacefulWarrior said:
That would be Freedom Fighters, fighting for their freedom.
I admire and support them.
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I would support freedom fighters if they are indeed acting for the will of the people they claim to be fighting for and not for their own political viability.

Sometimes I wonder how many in Iran actually supported Khomeini or how many in Vietnam actually supported Ho. How many people in the US confederacy supported Davis. And frankly I wonder how many revolutionary Americans actually supported the American Revolution.
 
Yes, more difficult to achieve, unless Biden admin follows the lead of the Obama admin, roll over, play dead, and give Iran everything they want.
 
Iran has had tensions with the US since the Carter administration. The US has routinely been called the Great Satan for four decades.

I recognize that Trump has become the convenient Emmanuel Goldstein for the 21st century but Iran has called for the annihilation of Israel and would love to have nukes to accomplish this. I fully supported the sanctions.

But my question was if Trump had done exactly what Biden did would he have been as forgiven or would he have been vilified as creating another provocation?
 
Sagittarius83 said:
Iran has had tensions with the US since the Carter administration. The US has routinely been called the Great Satan for four decades.
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There's been tension with Iran since the early 1950s, but the more serious US military actions/conflicts in the Middle East began as a result of both Bush Admins that attracted more back and forth tit for tat frictional strikes between the US and Iran inside the Middle East.

Sagittarius83 said:
I recognize that Trump has become the convenient Emmanuel Goldstein for the 21st century but Iran has called for the annihilation of Israel and would love to have nukes to accomplish this. I fully supported the sanctions.
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Did you support the US-Iran Agreement of 2015?

Sagittarius83 said:
But my question was if Trump had done exactly what Biden did would he have been as forgiven or would he have been vilified as creating another provocation?
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The problem with (S/I/T) Trump has always been untrusting when it comes to his motives for doing anything. Being what you asked, if he had done what Biden had just done, I'd be semi-ok with it while waiting for (S/I/T) Trump's other dumbass shoe to drop. Like I said, it's a true trust issue, when it comes to (S/I/T) Trump.
 
Great, this is the 8th President... in a row... to drop a bomb over there for whatever reason.

Go on, tell me more about how this has made things better over there or over here.
 
You are correct about rightly elected president Mosaddegh in 1953 (a shameful act by the US) but the new government was not hostile to the US.

I am speaking of the 1979 government to this day.

How do you feel about Iran as a nuclear power or do you believe them when they say that is not their intention?
 
eohrnberger said:
Yes, more difficult to achieve, unless Biden admin follows the lead of the Obama admin, roll over, play dead, and give Iran everything they want.
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Well this is just plain bullshit. Obama's agreement with Iran was multilateral, including even our NATO allies, and also included oversight by UN nuclear inspectors. The rest of the civilized "western" world wanted to resume trade with Iran, and threatened to simply drop their sanctions against it. It would have made absolutely zero sense to go it alone against Iran, getting nothing in exchange for our isolated sanctions, while they opened up their markets and started buying cars from France again.

All the inspectors reports indicated we had a successful nuclear weapon development deterrent against Iran up until Trump's breaking the agreement.
 
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