Dem. Senator (Coons): Attacks on Saudi oil refineries 'may call for military action against Iran'

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/461582-democratic-senator-attacks-on-saudi-oil-refineries-may-call-for-military-action

Sen. Christopher Coons (D-Del.) said Monday that the U.S. may need to use military force against Iran if intelligence reports determine Tehran was behind recent attacks on two Saudi oil refineries.

“This may well be the thing that calls for military action against Iran if that’s what the intelligence supports,” Coons said Monday on “Fox & Friends.” Coons said it “seems credible” that Iran is responsible for Saturday's attacks, arguing that the Houthis — the Yemeni rebels supported by Iran — don’t have the “sort of advanced drones that carried out” the strikes.

The Houthis claimed responsibility for the strikes, but U.S. officials have blamed Iran. Liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org criticized Coons's remarks about possible military action, calling the comments “reckless.”

“Senator Coons going on Fox and giving ammunition to Trump administration war hawks who are trying to push the U.S. into a costly, avoidable war with Iran is shameful and beyond dangerous,” MoveOn campaign director Justin Krebs said in a statement.

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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/sen-chris-coons-saudi-oil-attack-may-call-for-military-action-against-iran/

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[W_HAMILTON]

1. Coons is starting to piss me off.

I never had a problem with him before, but with his comments about Beto's gun comments, and now this...he is appearing on my radar now for all the wrong reasons.

[Celerity]

10. he also was one of the Democrats to cross over and vote to partially gut Dodd-Frank

He was a Co-sponsor of it

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=2&vote=00054#position

YEAs (67)

Democratic Caucus (17)

Bennet (D-CO)
Carper (D-DE)
Coons (D-DE)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Jones (D-AL)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Nelson (D-FL)
Peters (D-MI)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Warner (D-VA)

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[triron]

12. I have never felt comfortable with Coons.

He is a sellout to repukes sometimes.
His bs on Iran is just that.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Seemed very naive thinking he and flake would

Be heroes and stop Kavenaugh.

[dalton99a]

15. Coons chose Johnny Isakson (R-Ga) as his mentor when he joined the Senate.

[hlthe2b]

2. Sen. Chris Murphy on what is going on in Yemen and why we do not need to bomb Iran over oilfields

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212467975

I doubt there is a lot of consensus among the rest, either.

[YOHABLO]

3. Let the Saudis deal with it.

[Cosmocat]

7. Real tough guys hacking Koshogi up

Agreed, let them handle their own business.

[alwaysinasnit]

4. I am having a lot of trouble buying this administration's contention that it was Iran that did it.

It stinks to high heaven, much like Bush's "proof" that Iraq had WMD's.

[struggle4progress]

5. "We don't want Saudis to think we're upset that they butchered our journalist!"

[guillaumeb]

6. Recommended.

[Karadeniz]

8. This is ridiculous.

[leftstreet]

9. DURec

[GeorgeGist]

11. Since when does Senator Coons ...

work for Saudi Arabia?

[JCMach1]

14. Someone needs to educate the Senator about the current

State of drone technology and usage in assymetrical warfare...

[ecstatic]

16. Nope. Sorry. Not taking the word of a proven liar or his employees. nt

[notinkansas]

17. That. Can't. Happen.

It is too obscene an action to even consider.

[JonLP24]

18. No I don't agree

Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemen. The US shouldn't take Saudi Arabia's side in this war.