Pelosi and Democrats would endanger US troops with their attempt to micromanage Trump's response to Iran terrorism

Joseph Klein:

Democrats and their progressive allies, including in the establishment media, are continuing their “Great Betrayal” of the United States. They tried to sabotage efforts by President George W. Bush’s administration to support the U.S. forces fighting in Iraq against Saddam Hussein and Islamic terrorists. Now, we are witnessing Democrats, both in Congress and vying to run against President Trump in this year’s presidential election, treacherously helping the Iranian regime advance its 40-year war against Americans. The leftist media is right by their side.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is readying her Democrat-controlled House of Representatives to vote this week on legislation to tie President Trump’s hands in dealing with the blood-thirsty Iranian regime. Speaker Pelosi is peeved that she and her Democrat congressional colleagues were not consulted first before President Trump ordered the killing of Iranian terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani late last week. Too bad. She should run for president if she wants to become the commander-in-chief. In any case, she is a hypocrite.

As David Greenfield noted,

The same Democrats who are suddenly rereading the War Powers Act had no objection when Obama illegally decided to launch a regime change invasion of Libya under false pretenses while repeatedly lying about it being a war, lying about UN authorization, and lying about intervening to stop a genocide.

Pelosi said at the time that Obama had all the authority he needed to conduct attacks against Libya without having to go first to Congress for such authority. That’s curious since Obama’s action had no self-defense justification. It resulted in regime change and then a failed state. Four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, lost their lives in the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack unleashed as a result of the power vacuum that the Obama-Biden administration helped to create. No problem, according to Pelosi.

Yet President Trump’s decision to order a precise strike to take out a known terrorist with American blood on his hands, who was planning more murders of Americans, has Pelosi and her Democrat colleagues in a lather. They are writing another chapter in their disgusting saga of Great Betrayal.

Qasem Soleimani was the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. He directed the activities of various Iranian-backed Iraqi terrorist groups, including Kata’ib Hezbollah. This is the terrorist militia group that reportedly launched the rocket attack against an Iraqi base, which killed one American and wounded others. Kata’ib Hezbollah then led the assault on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Soleimani was met by this terrorist group’s leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at the Baghdad International Airport last Friday. President Trump took advantage of the opportunity to stop them in their tracks from carrying out any imminent plans they were harboring to kill many more Americans.

Major media outlets and Democrats hesitated to call Soleimani out for the brutal terrorist that he was. Indeed, after Senator Elizabeth Warren received blowback from her supporters on the left for initially referring to Soleimani as a “murderer,” she backtracked and described him blandly as “a government official, a high-ranking official for the government of Iran."

Speaker Pelosi sent a letter addressed solely to each “Dear Democratic Colleague," recklessly characterizing the Trump administration’s defensive strike against Soleimani and his terrorist henchmen as “a provocative and disproportionate military airstrike targeting high-level Iranian military officials.” She claimed that the airstrike, which was intended to save American lives from the threat of imminent attack planned by Soleimani along with al-Muhandis," endangered our service members, diplomats and others by risking a serious escalation of tensions with Iran."
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Pelosi has not made a persuasive argument for her position.  In fact, it would endanger the troops and might have allowed this murder to go free because of the cowardice of Democrats in Congress when it comes to protecting the troops in harm's way.  Her actions should be seen as the partisan hit job they are.  If she passes this travesty of an idea it is unlikely to pass the Senate and if it did she would not be able to override a veto.  On top of all that it is highly likely that it would be found to be unconstitutional.