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Democrats scramble to delay resolution to limit Trump’s powers over military after Iranian missile attacks

Jan 9, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

More interference by Democratic leaders in Trump’s execution of his duty to protect America. The Dems were just about to introduce a resolution “to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to lead the military into conflict with Iran,” but suddenly pulled back after the Iranian rocket attacks.

Pelosi informed fellow House Democrats on Sunday about the planned legislation:

Pelosi’s letter begins with the declaration that President Donald Trump’s airstrike last week targeting Iranian General Qasem Suleimani, leader of the terrorist Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC) Quds Force, responsible for the murders of hundreds of Americans and for recent attacks on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, was “provocative and disproportionate,” terms suggesting the attack was illegal under international law and could constitute a war crime.”

The Democrats have consistently undermined democracy by their full rejection of a duly elected President. Hillary Clinton laid the foundation when she insulted Trump’s supporters as “a basket of deplorables” during her presidential campaign in September 2016. That same disdain for Trump and Americans who support him continues. To merely wear a “Make America Great Again (MAGA)” hat has become taboo.

The American strike on Iran that killed Qassem Soleimani prevented another Benghazi attack — no thanks to Hillary Clinton due her own “deplorable” recklessness as Secretary of State. She then had the audacity to blame the attack on a YouTube video mocking Muhammad, and subsequently even denied making such statements later on.

The Democratic mission has been marked not only by its undermining of democracy, but also of American safety and interests. Add to that the Dems’ strategy of appeasement, facilitation of the jihad through the Iran deal, and alliances with the Muslim Brotherhood.

In keeping with the above, it is no surprise that the Democrats will continue to dig for ways to undermine Trump during a critical operation to limit the threat of the Iranian regime. A regime that has made no secrets of its ultimate goal of world dominion and which includes routine chants of “death to America,” and “death to Israel.” But when Iran attacked the US following announcement of Soleimani’s death, the malicious Democrats scrambled to delay  the resolution, no doubt only temporarily.

“Report: Democrats Pull Resolution Limiting Trump War Power After Iran Missile Attacks,” by Joel B Pollack, Breitbart, January 7, 2020:

Democrats have reportedly delayed the introduction of a resolution to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to lead the military into conflict with Iran — after Iranian missiles struck bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq Tuesday evening.

As Breitbart News reported, Pelosi informed fellow House Democrats on Sunday about the planned legislation:

Pelosi’s letter begins with the declaration that President Donald Trump’s airstrike last week targeting Iranian General Qasem Suleimani, leader of the terrorist Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC) Quds Force, responsible for the murders of hundreds of Americans and for recent attacks on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, was “provocative and disproportionate,” terms suggesting the attack was illegal under international law and could constitute a war crime.…

The letter goes on to describe a new resolution that would “limit the President’s military actions regarding Iran,” essentially signaling a surrender in the potential conflict before the Iranian regime itself had managed to respond.

Pelosi adds that the resolution “reasserts Congress’s long-established oversight responsibilities by mandating that if no further Congressional action is taken, the Administration’s military hostilities with regard to Iran cease within 30 days.” Under current law, the War Powers Act of 1973 limits the time that a president can lead a military effort, without formal authorization, to 60 days following a required presidential report to Congress when hostilities begin.

Politico reported Tuesday evening, however, that Iran’ attack had “scramble[d]” Democrats’ plans for the vote:

The real prospect of rapidly intensifying conflict with Iran complicates the Democrats’ plan to repudiate President Donald Trump for a deadly drone attack on Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani last week without notifying Congress. House Democrats say they are likely to pause, if not abandon, their plans for a war powers resolution…..

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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Jan 9, 2020 at 8:54 am

    “a YouTube video mocking Muhammad”

    Dear Christine,

    Thank you for all your excellent work. We owe you a lot.
    Would you permit a reader to draw attention to a detail?
    The youtube video “Innocence of Muslims” was low budget, self-evidently. Spoilt and vastly overpaid Hollywood “celebrities” find that insulting (to their egos). Muslim spokesmen craftily joined the disparagement, and called it insulting. Islam today treats any depiction of Mohammed as unacceptable, though there are plenty from earlier times. It gives imams another excuse to silence any criticism and call for the death penalty, free for anyone to apply, vigilante-style, for the film-maker.

    By a kind of sleight of hand the film’s content has come to be treated as mocking Mohammed. This is not correct: it does not mock. It was carefully constructed following exactly the descriptions of Mohammed in Islam’s sources. Usama Dakdok, Arabic-speaking Coptic Egyptian, has made a youtube video showing just that, with chapter and verse for everything depicted.

    Islam’s spokespeople can accurately claim to be insulted by the film: any depiction is considered insulting to Sharia’s divine rules. They cannot claim to be insulted by the acts shown in it: those are true to the canonical texts. That would be saying that Mohammed’s actions are insulting.

    The youtube video accurately depicts what is recorded in the biography of Mohammed.

    In goodwill.

    MC

    • FYI says

      Jan 9, 2020 at 10:33 am

      “islam today treats any depiction of muhammed as unacceptable”

      So what about islamic depictions of muhammed…. from islamic sources?

      1]Depictions of muhammed:If you Google Buraq you can see pictures of muhammed on his flying horsey :they come from centuries old islamic sources and this shows the nonsense of any islamic complaints today about pictures or drawings of muhammed being “islamophobic”.

      2]According to the koran’s own criterion of who had the right to be a prophet…muhammed,by virtue of the fact that he was NOT from the “children of Israel”{i.e Jewish} was NOT entitled to be a prophet.

      Jesus Christ satisfies this koranic criterion.
      muhammed doesn’t.

      “And verily WE gave the Children of Israel the Scripture,the command and the PROPHETHOOD”
      Koran 45 v 16

      Muhammed was not entitled to be a prophet:he was not from the Children of Israel on whom the right of Prophethood had been given.

      On this basis,according to the koran’s OWN criterion..muhammed was a FALSE prophet as he could not have been an authentic one since he wasn’t from the Children of Israel{i.e Jewish}

      Thus,according to koran 45;16,muhammed was not a true prophet.
      He couldn’t have been.

      3]islamic sources unwittingly ridicule muhammed..

      al tabari 6:111 muhammed admits to being a fraud
      Abu dawud 40:4731 What Ubaydullah saw..
      Sahih bukhari 54:7:2442 muhammed liked to wear Aisha’s dress..
      etc

      4]muhammed’s last days…

      His demise and the frankly comical manner in which he died{FAILING the Poison Test} and what he said about feeling his Aorta had been cut{ a statement according to the koran that only a FALSE prophet would say}is simply laughable.

      koran 69: v 44-46 allah’s test of a FALSE PROPHET
      { a false prophet would have his Aorta cut…}

      muhammed, a mass-murderer of Jews{Abu Dawud 4390}killed by a Jewish woman whose family he had wiped out :interestingly,in the Bible YHWH insists that {Deuteronomy 18 v 20} false prophets “must die for it”…which is precisely what happened to muhammed.

      Explained in detail on

      You Tube
      acts17apologetics who killed muhammed?

      “NO calamity befalleth save by allah’s leave”
      koran 64 v 11

      What a calamity befell mo!

  2. Malcolm (South Afric) says

    Jan 9, 2020 at 8:59 am

    Ayatollah Benghazi Democrats.

  3. Kilauea says

    Jan 9, 2020 at 9:52 am

    So now the Democrats have become the spokespersons for Iran by siding against the U.S. Ayatollah Pelosi needs to move into a retirement home over looking the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

  4. mortimer says

    Jan 9, 2020 at 11:24 am

    ‘SCRAMBLE … to DELAY’ … the title of this article says it all.

    The Dems are confused by their overarching concern to imply by all means fair or foul that Pres. Trump does nothing right!

    With all the instant experts denouncing the president for defending troops by taking out a hostile kingpin, the Dems and their cheerleaders forget the last 40 years of the mullahs chanting ‘Death to America’.

    Someone should do a compilation of anti-American hatred and rhetoric in Iran since the Islamic revolution forty years ago. This would reveal consistency of the hatred during that forty years.

    In any poker game, there is a moment when you have to call a player’s bluff. The Iranians do NOT want to start a self-destructive war … they have been bluffing all along.

  5. Wellington says

    Jan 9, 2020 at 12:07 pm

    Double standard on display again by the Democrats. When Obama bombed Libya, had Osama bin Laden taken out and al-Alwaki (the latter a US citizen), Democrats looked the other way. No problem. But now that Trump has (thankfully) taken out a truly evil human being in Solemani, all of a sudden the Democrats have a problem with this. No way if the scenario was exactly the same where the death of Soleimani is concerned but it was done by a Democratic President would the Democrats be in hysterics as they are now. Everything would be just fine and one Democrat after another would be on record saying that the Democratic President had the full authority to protect America and American citizens under Article II of the Constitution.

    Hatred for Trump has made Democrats en masse unhinged. It has also made them stupid, hypocritical and unpatriotic.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jan 9, 2020 at 4:18 pm

      Wellington says,

      “Hatred for Trump has made Democrats en masse unhinged. It has also made them stupid, hypocritical and unpatriotic.”

      100% true !

      Is likely that the Democrats were at least somewhat “unhinged / stupid / hypercritical / unpatriotic” even BEFORE the election of Pres. Trump – it just become a lot more obvious AFTER the 2016 election…

      • Infidel says

        Jan 10, 2020 at 12:49 am

        It is a good amendment, though: it would prevent a President Rashida Tlaib from unilaterally declaring war on Israel. Or any minion candidates who derive popularity by endorsement from the squad

  6. Jim says

    Jan 9, 2020 at 12:15 pm

    The Democrats and everyone else on the Left know that Sulemani was in IRAQ, attacking our embassy. When we killed him, we didn’t invade Iran to do so, we killed him IN IRAQ. What was he doing in Iraq? He was there attacking us. Therefore, it was appropriate to attack him.

    I have come to the conclusion that while some Democrats are just plain cowards, others try to steer America in a cowardly direction purposely in order to hurt our reputation and encourage more attacks on America. In this case, the cowardly thing to do would have been to let Sulemani attack us and do nothing in response.

  7. James Lincoln says

    Jan 9, 2020 at 4:25 pm

    According to the feature article:

    “Democrats scramble to delay resolution to limit Trump’s powers over military after Iranian missile attacks.”

    Interestingly, Democrats are also “scrambling to delay” delivering the articles of the impeachment of Pres. Trump to the Senate. That’s after stating that the president was an “imminent threat.”

    The Democrats are looking more and more ridiculous – as Pres. Trump keeps winning for America.

  8. Infidel says

    Jan 9, 2020 at 5:26 pm

    I’m actually for this resolution, if it becomes permanent law. In other words, it would work against a Dem president just as much as it would a GOP president. So if a President Bernie or an AOC declares war on Israel, such a move would prevent them as well, just like it would have prevented Trump. And given the story recently about how Obama threatened to shoot down any Israeli attempt to bomb Iran’s nuke facilities, don’t put that beyond the Dems

  9. Flip says

    Jan 9, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    “Provocative and disproportionate” are useless words because neither can be defined. The purpose of self-defense is to end the threat by doing whatever is necessary to make your enemy surrender. It doesn’t matter how “disproportionate” it is. The only risk is under-reacting, which is exactly what we’ve been doing for 40+ years.

  10. Flip says

    Jan 9, 2020 at 9:24 pm

    Their entire way of thinking about the jihadist threat is mistaken. The war powers acts have these 30 and 60 day cutoffs with each discrete nation or party, but in fact this is a multi-headed hydra in many nations and with many state-supported proxies. It’s all one war of self-defense against the jihadist movement.

  11. Nelson. M says

    Jan 10, 2020 at 4:03 am

    IT IS NOW THE TIME for this to be put to an END. it is obvious that THE SO CALLED democrat are ANTI-DEMOCRACY. The essence of democracy is NOTHING BUT PARTISANSHIP the majority of the population is governing. Now the majority of the Americans have spoken and they want TRUMP as their President, but Nancy, Adam Skiffy, Jerrold fatty acid Nadler, the dog tail Eric swell-well and all their Cronies are refusing to accept a DULY and DEMOCRATCALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT. and DUMBS are supporting them? they are all sick. Pelosi, Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Sleepy Joe Biden and Adam Skiffy their interest is not in America but in these OIL and GAS countries like Ukraine and Iran. THEY BLOCK TRUMP TO KNOW WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON IN UKRAINE AND NOW WANT TO BLOCK AND LIMIT TRUMPS POWER SO THAT HE WILL NOT DAMAGE THEIR ASSETS IN THESE COUNTIES. these people never think for the good of the American people ALL THIS TIME THEY HAVE BEEN PRETENDING working for the American people, however, SINCE TRUMP TOOK OVER THEY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED. IT IS CLEAR IN EVERY CORNER, IN EVERY PLACE THAT THEY HAVE BEEN LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THEY MAKE YOU BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE FOR AMERICANS. ( one hand is giving you a cookie and the other hand behind the back hiding all the Gas and petrol money. GET THIS OLD CRAPS OUT OF CONGRESS, in November you make sure that they DONT get a chance to do what they did in the Mid Term elections, and rig the elections. VOTE ALLOF THEM OUT OF CONGRESS.
    end of an Era for Pelosi and Skiffy Adam The Iranians spokespersons.

  12. Lorraine E Blazich says

    Jan 10, 2020 at 8:50 am

    The congressional democrats have become a monster which is fighting to exert complete control over our president and the senate. They already completely control every aspect of the lying corporate media and now are wilding bullies demanding that both our president and senators obey them. It is too bad that they don’t have time to do their job as our congressional representatives. Perhaps they should be ordered to refund over three years of their salaries because they have devoted all of their time to exclusively working to remove our duly elected president.

  13. Mike says

    Jan 10, 2020 at 11:02 am

    Hello Iran leaders,

    Please give Pelosi a prize , a distinction , something equivalent to the Nobel prize in Westen Civilisation, for her support of your cause . I would be so thankful to you if you could do so .

    NB : If there is none existing , create one kind of : Friends of Islam or a Aslan Statue for her great contribution to Iran ‘s views expansion in 2019 .Everybody knows that for 2018 , it was John Kerry !

  14. Giacomo Latta says

    Jan 10, 2020 at 12:40 pm

    Is someone going to ask the half-wit Pelosi if the killing of 63 Canadian innocents by Iran was a ”disproportionate” response or just about right?

  15. Giacomo Latta says

    Jan 10, 2020 at 12:44 pm

    Now that Pelosi knows the state of mind of button-pushers in Iran, is she still at peace with giving them nuclear capabilities?

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