Discussion: NYT: Mattis Wanted Congress' Approval For Syria Strike, But Was Vetoed By Trump

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Hang in there, Mad Dog. And don’t go native. We need a sane American on the inside.

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“Mattis reportedly pressed for congressional approval because he thinks it’s important to maintain the appearance of public support for military operations.”

When you know there’s not likely to be overwhelming real support, at least try to maintain the appearance of support. That’s how you make general, I guess.

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I wonder if he phrased it that way himself.

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Article I Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the sole power “to declare war.”

This is just more evidence that the Constitution does not matter anymore except for the NRA’s interpretation of the Second Amendment.

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Too bad modern media will collapse in the fiery exchange, or historians studying the demise of the nation once called the U.S. would be able to read similar accounts of how Mattis and several other ex-Generals tried to wrestle the football away from Trump before he could access the codes.

Would be funny if it wasn’t so frighteningly plausible.

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Mattis seems to be the only one among the misanthropes, miscreants, and malcontents of the Trump administration who shows any interest in maintaining appearances. The rest are just in it for the grift and don’t care what it looks like.

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Meh, what does Mattis know that a real estate developer who cant even put sprinklers in his building doesn’t. Besides, trump has an advisor like Bolton in his corner, and we all know his track recor…

Sorry guys I need to find a nice quiet corner and rock back and forth to calm myself.

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To think that someone with the nickname “Mad Dog” may be the only sane person in this administration is very telling.

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Some rules only apply to Democratic presidents:

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Is there another looking glass way past the first through the looking glass? Because we’re in an alternate universe that shouldn’t even be reachable from the one we used to live in.

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I call BS. If Mattis really had wanted he Congressional approval he demanded one. Does he really wants us to believe that Trump twisted his arm until he agreed to attack.

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So lets sum things up a little.

drump wanted to do something because he needed the distraction.

Mattis didn’t want to do a strike since 1 its illegal and 2 a small strike wouldn’t do much to change the landscape and there is a lot of risk involved.

Bolton wanted to do a large strike because… well because the guy is a nutjob who wants to start WW3.

drump also doesn’t want Russia to be that mad so it had to be something small.

What a fine mess we have going on.

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Mattis reportedly pressed for congressional approval because he thinks it’s important to maintain the appearance of public support for military operations.

hits pause on this match replay

okies, back to Rusev Day

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I think Mattis didn’t want to do the strike and tried to use the Congressional apporval as way to have it not happened.
The upsides of the strike in terms of what is going on in Syria is very limited but the potential downsides was huge.

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last week, he claimed article 2 was good enough for the attack.

thas on ‘45’s’ shoulders.

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Do you really think Mattis would be still be in office if he went on TV and said the strike that just happened was illegal?

Why don’t you kill the whole family?

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nope and then there’s this again

However if this current story is true (and ‘gubmint twittah’ will say something different), then it says a lot, because Mattis recognized the stakes in just relying on Article Two.

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so yeh, Mattis might have gotten this AUMF

added/reminder

okies, back to “did D-Bry really get kicked in the head last night?” already in progress

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