“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), asked for the legal justification for launching a military attack without seeking authority from Congress, shrugged off the question in a Friday press conference.”
Ah, here is our Senate Majority Leader once again demonstrating the leadership for which he is so famous.
Now fuck off, Senator.
I will feel much better about this attack if we could show that it was indeed the work of the Syrian government. Since the previous one turned out to be the work of terrorists aligned with al Qaeda, there is enough doubt about this one that we need more than just someone’s say so. It is quite possible that a Russian bomb dropped by a Syrian plane hit a cache of gas that some terrorist group had stored somewhere. We just don’t know and we have no reason to think that people like al Qaeda or ISIL aren’t working on creating a poison gas capability.
When reporters corrected him, noting that President Obama sent two AUMF proposals to Congress, McConnell argued they didn’t count because “they were so restrictive.”
So he is saying they refused to give Obama permission to act in Syria, because he wasn’t acting for an expansive enough amount of power? “Look if you aren’t willing to ask for the authority for a prolonged series of nuclear bombardments and a full amphibious assault to rival D-Day, we aren’t going to authorize you to make target surgical airstrikes.”
Have any Republican Senators accused our so-called President of “wagging the dog” in order to distract from concerns about his involvement with Russia, like they did with Bill Clinton in the 1990s?
It’s pretty clear to me that Trump’s pro-Russia, OK-with-Assad rhetoric is what emboldened Assad to carry out the chemical weapon attack. Adding to the lives lost in the chemical weapons attack itself, Trump’s missile strikes apparently killed a number of civilians, including some children. At best, the missile strikes dissuade Assad from launching any more chemical attacks in the near future. So, best case scenario, all those lives were lost and we return to the status quo…a high price to pay for the remedial education of an ill-prepared, erratic President. And it’ll be an even higher price if it doesn’t turn out to be the best case scenario…which these things almost never do.
It is all good, don’t worry be happy, it was the plan all along, everything is under control, did we say it’s all good. Right!
Trumping along…America is so great now!