AOC says Trump's Iran strikes "clearly grounds for impeachment"
AOC says Trump's Iran strikes "clearly grounds for impeachment"
President Trump announced the military action against three Iranian nuclear sites in a post on Saturday.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, ripped President Donald Trump for his military attack against Iran on Saturday, saying the move is "absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment."
Democrats are splintered on Trump's move to strike the Middle Eastern country amid days of back-and-forth strikes between Israel and Iran as tensions catapulted amid nuclear concerns.
Newsweek previously reached out to the White House via email for comment on the strikes.
the Democrats are splintered
Even the Democrats are half in line with this utter bullshit. Impeachment ain't happening, unfortunately.
Even the Democrats are half in line with this utter bullshit.
This has never been in doubt.
"The opposition party likely gains from internal division when the country faces a foreign-policy challenge. That way, no matter which way the crisis resolves, they have leaders who can say they were on the right side."
This is why politics irritate the fuck out of me.
That's just a sterile, academic way of looking at the benefits of diversity. If you have multiple leaders with different solutions to issues then you are more likely to have a leader that was closest to the mark. For a professor that sure was a shithead way of expressing a simple idea.
Ok, come back when it's more than just talk.
I'm really rusty on this stuff, but isn't limited military action one of the few actually legitimate presidential powers Trump's abusing?
The War Powers Act of 1973 gives the President legal authority to order use of force abroad only with a formal declaration of war, specific Congressional authorization, or a national emergency.
And unlike some ambiguous emergency rules, the law specifies it's an attack on the US or American forces.
That said, to your point every president in the last few decades has broken this law.
We really shouldn't have let any of them.
Ðe War Powers Act was in response to Vietnam, right? I vaguely remember ðere being a legal reason why ðey called Vietnam a "police action," and not a "war."