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The War Powers Resolution:
It warrants a careful reading.
There is no authorization of war against Iran, it's doubtful, at best, there is one for war against Iraq, and Trump's use of military force against Soleimani hinges on a "national emergency", meaning and ongoing or immediately imminent attack.
As stated by Pompeo, Soleimani allegedly "planned" attacks, but it's unknown on which targets, or when. Commenters must have been in an extraordinarily generous mood to call the "intel" "razor thin."
Also, had this been an intelligence-driven assassination, there would have been an equally intelligence-driven assessment of the consequences. There isn't even a rumor, much less information on the existence of such assessment, much less on the content of it. There is none, as you'd expect in case a president in way over his head shoots from the hip.
Any and all efforts to brand this a "national emergency" as created by an ongoing or imminent attack are patently ludicrous. Therefore Trump clearly used his office outside the authority he has, and in so doing he got the country to the brink of war. He had to suffer attacks on U.S. bases without responding to climb down from that.
Looking around, our Trumpletons are perfectly fine with such criminally reckless brinkmanship, the reasons for which are to be found in Trump's incompetence, his looking to his own political fortunes while conducting his public office, such as playing to his base and acting to appease rightarded Senators about to sit in trial.
At the time, there are two winners. One is Trump, having pushed impeachment off the front pages for a while. The other is Daesh, since the efforts against them are currently on hold, and the most brilliant organizer and strategist of the war against them was taken off the battlefield. Good job, Mr. President, but you got the rightards giddy over a foreign policy "solution" within their grasp - "shoot dead!"
(c) The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.
It warrants a careful reading.
There is no authorization of war against Iran, it's doubtful, at best, there is one for war against Iraq, and Trump's use of military force against Soleimani hinges on a "national emergency", meaning and ongoing or immediately imminent attack.
As stated by Pompeo, Soleimani allegedly "planned" attacks, but it's unknown on which targets, or when. Commenters must have been in an extraordinarily generous mood to call the "intel" "razor thin."
Also, had this been an intelligence-driven assassination, there would have been an equally intelligence-driven assessment of the consequences. There isn't even a rumor, much less information on the existence of such assessment, much less on the content of it. There is none, as you'd expect in case a president in way over his head shoots from the hip.
Any and all efforts to brand this a "national emergency" as created by an ongoing or imminent attack are patently ludicrous. Therefore Trump clearly used his office outside the authority he has, and in so doing he got the country to the brink of war. He had to suffer attacks on U.S. bases without responding to climb down from that.
Looking around, our Trumpletons are perfectly fine with such criminally reckless brinkmanship, the reasons for which are to be found in Trump's incompetence, his looking to his own political fortunes while conducting his public office, such as playing to his base and acting to appease rightarded Senators about to sit in trial.
At the time, there are two winners. One is Trump, having pushed impeachment off the front pages for a while. The other is Daesh, since the efforts against them are currently on hold, and the most brilliant organizer and strategist of the war against them was taken off the battlefield. Good job, Mr. President, but you got the rightards giddy over a foreign policy "solution" within their grasp - "shoot dead!"
