* A number of moderate Democrats praised the Biden administration move, as some Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson, claimed it is 'long overdue'
* Isolationist Republicans and progressive Democrats were of a different mind, deeming the strikes a 'blatant violation' of the Constitution
The news that President Biden has launched airstrikes on Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen has divided Congress - though not along party lines.
Top Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson, claimed it was 'long overdue' and a number of moderate Democrats also praised the Biden administration's move.
'We must hope these operations indicate a true shift in the Biden Administration's approach to Iran and its proxies that are engaging in such evil and wreaking such havoc,' Johnson wrote on X.
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Update: Progressive Democrats fume over Houthi strikes as Republicans offer rare praise (BBC)
WNU editor: I do not see this debate happening .... Has Biden violated the US Constitution by bombing Yemen? (Al Jazeera). More here .... Biden's Yemen strike reignites Congress' battle over war powers (Politico).
The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act) (50 U.S.C. ch. 33) is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. The resolution was adopted in the form of a United States congressional joint resolution. It provides that the president can send the U.S. Armed Forces into action abroad only by declaration of war by Congress, "statutory authorization", or in case of "a national emergency
ReplyDeleteThe Houthis supposedly fired on American Naval ships. If they fired on an American flagged ship, it is the same as firing on an American Naval ship. There are American military personnel on every American flagged ship. If Congress pretends otherwise, they deserve to eke out a 4th world existence.
When Obama bombed Libya there was an United Nations resolution. Was there a congressional resolution?
If some people on the Republican side, fine. Then eat, sleep, and shower at Capitol Hill and pull 16 hour days until you get your quid pro quo order for a resolution or whatever.
To be a purist right now on a congressional calendar with recesses and what not is BS.
The Democrats against this. Where were they on Syria? Right, get Trump. So they did not complain then and are not complaining now.
Only 70& of typical traffic is going though the Suez Canal. The bigger and thus higher tonnage and profitable tolls or bypassing the canal Egypt is losing at least 30% of its revenue from the Canal. That is not a recipe for stability or world peace.
Does not matter. Biden Blinken and company did the least amount and most ineffectual missile strike they could muster. So the Houthis will be back and maybe in the last 3 months of the campaign season. Such are the wages of sin.
I mean Biden kicked the can down the road, which in Biden's case means not very far.
9:16 PM's remarks are spot on.
ReplyDeleteOther than Biden's usual ignorant, hypocritical blatherings, there is nothing extra-constitutional about the strikes on Yemen. If we had a competent, pro-US, pro-Western Civilization gov't leading the country, we wouldn't have to launch strikes on Yemen. And we wouldn't be in the precursors to WW3.
Old idiotic retarded pedophile, doing the same thing as Clinton, Bush and Obama, Democrats are no good, congratulations Trump showed the dirty and rotten side of Democrats, they just want deaths and more deaths...
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