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US carries out air strikes in Syria targeting Iranian backed militia structures

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Going to direct warring is an escalation.

I imagine the so-called progressive "Democrats" aren't going to say or do shit about this.

What should “progressive Democrats” do in your fantasy world? Call for solidarity with the dictatorship in Tehran? Storm the Capitol Building? Screech about how much they hate the folks in the military and then wonder why they can’t ever manage to get elected President? :rolleyes:

The US has been carrying out air strikes against Syrian militias and insurgents such as ISIS for years now.
 
So now the US is directly warring in addition to indirectly warring. And since it's a "Democratic" administration, "liberals" are okay with it.
Actually it looks like more of the same from the past twenty years
 


Nice try to conflate a a much larger and direct attack upon Syrian government facilities in the absence of legal justification and any coordination with American allies in the region with a proportional military response to a nonstate revolutionary militia facility or facilities in coordination with US allies and prior notification given to the the Syrian government and other state actors currently operating in the region. Your BS is duly noted.
 
The hypocrites who were outraged that Trump attacked Syria are really gonna have to pull some impressive mental gymnastics to go rah rah over this. I hope they stretch first.
 


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........ The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) (Pub.L. 107–40 (text) (pdf), 115 Stat. 224) is a joint resolution of the United States Congress which became law on September 18, 2001, authorizing the use of the United States Armed Forces .........

.........The only representative to vote against the Authorization in 2001 was Barbara Lee, who has consistently criticized it since for being a blank check giving the government unlimited powers to wage war without debate.[4] Lee has initiated several attempts to repeal the authorization. Business Insider has reported that the AUMF has been used to allow military deployment in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Georgia, Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iraq, and Somalia.[5] ............

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On June 29, 2017, a group of libertarian Republicans and Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee approved Barbara Lee's amendment to end the 2001 authorization within 240 days. This would have forced debate on a replacement authorization, but the amendment was removed from the bill by the Rules Committee, and the AUMF remains in effect.[12][13]

In 2018, Senators Tim Kaine and Bob Corker proposed several updates to the AUMF.[14]

In November 2019, the AUMF was supposed to be grounds for the occupation of Kurdish-controlled Syrian oilfields, as the Trump administration sought legal authorization to maintain a presence in the area.[15] ...........


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Just breaking . . . apparently ordered by Biden . . .
Was wondering how long it would take for his addled mind to remember his warmongering days and want to repeat them.
 
Was wondering how long it would take for his addled mind to remember his warmongering days and want to repeat them.

The funniest part, of course, is that he’s still far more intelligent than Donnie Draft Dodger and all his mouth breathing cultists..... put together.
 
I have to go with Joe Biden on this one.

The Iranian backed militias were lobbing rockets at our troops.

If our troops have to be there, then we have a obligation to support and protect them them 100%
 
Commie Joe is merely backing a Communist Kurdish militia in Syria, the PPK; Horrible Harris is just lying to deflect from Democrats' real agendas. He will desist from backing them as soon as Red China pays him off and gives another relative of his some serious millions; the PPK is anti-Iranian and in bed with the Red Chinese, so naturally he will dump them when an 'appropriate sum' is agreed on.. He's an extortionist and shakedown artist, like most of the DNC notables, like Obama. Hillary, Al Gore, Al Sharpton, Jackson, etc.
 
Commie Joe is merely backing a Communist Kurdish militia in Syria, the PPK; Horrible Harris is just lying to deflect from Democrats' real agendas. He will desist from backing them as soon as Red China pays him off and gives another relative of his some serious millions; the PPK is anti-Iranian and in bed with the Red Chinese, so naturally he will dump them when an 'appropriate sum' is agreed on.. He's an extortionist and shakedown artist, like most of the DNC notables, like Obama. Hillary, Al Gore, Al Sharpton, Jackson, etc.

Yawn. Oh look, another unhinged Trump cult rant about “commies”. Your impotent rage is hilarious bud.
 
May want to dig a little deeper...
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No you're right, we acted like it was our job to overthrow Mossadegh, just as we did with Hussein. This led to the conditions that saw the current regime taking power. My point still stands though, we destabilized Iraq, Iran came in and filled the vaccuum. Remember the Iran-Iraq war?

There was a reason we supported Saddam Hussein against Iran, so this just buttresses my original point. If Saddam hadn't been there we'd be looking at a new Persian Empire, the only reason Iran has gotten as far as it has was because of our idiot president at the time.
 
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Commie Joe is merely backing a Communist Kurdish militia in Syria, the PPK; Horrible Harris is just lying to deflect from Democrats' real agendas. He will desist from backing them as soon as Red China pays him off and gives another relative of his some serious millions; the PPK is anti-Iranian and in bed with the Red Chinese, so naturally he will dump them when an 'appropriate sum' is agreed on.. He's an extortionist and shakedown artist, like most of the DNC notables, like Obama. Hillary, Al Gore, Al Sharpton, Jackson, etc.
More horseshit than I'm used to reading this early in the AM. Do you often get everything wrong? Or is this an exception for you?
 
No you're right, we acted like it was our job to overthrow Mossadegh, just as we did with Hussein. This led to the conditions that saw the current regime taking power. My point still stands though, we destabilized Iraq, Iran came in and filled the vaccuum. Remember the Iran-Iraq war?

There was a reason we supported Saddam Hussein against Iran, so this just buttresses my original point. If Saddam hadn't been there we'd be looking at a new Persian Empire, the only reason Iran has gotten as far as it has was because of our idiot president at the time.*
*-And the CIA/MI6 1953 coup of Mossadegh to an extent, of course.
 
Didn't the "fledgling democracy" (LMAO) Iraq tell the US to get out of their country?
Why are we still there?
Something about FrEeDuMbZ$™?
 
Didn't the "fledgling democracy" (LMAO) Iraq tell the US to get out of their country?
Why are we still there?
Something about FrEeDuMbZ$™?
We'll be there forever. Just over a month into office and Joe is lobbing rockets in the middle east. We're not going anywhere anytime soon.
 
I have to go with Joe Biden on this one.

The Iranian backed militias were lobbing rockets at our troops.

If our troops have to be there, then we have a obligation to support and protect them them 100%


But our troops dont "have to be there".
Iraq has told the US to leave, years ago. The US never had any business there to begin with.
The so called "contractor" was one of those hired blackwater type mercenaries.
I gotta root for the Freedom Fighters on this one. 👍
 
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