Democrat after Democrat and Republican after Republican, came out to talk after the "briefing"...

[kentuck]

From the make-shift acting National Security Council, that is still left intact, to a couple of Generals from the Joint Chiefs, somebody gave Donald Trump the option of assassinating Gazem Suleimani.

But Republicans and Democrats were almost shaken from the briefing. They were very concerned about it. There was no "imminent threat" , they said. None were happy with the briefing.

One Senator, Mike Lee from Utah, said it was the "worst" briefing he had seen in his nine years in the Senate. He seemed very disappointed in what he saw from the acting National Security Council. ("disappointed" is not the word. He was more "angry" and "upset" that they were told to not "debate or dicusss" any future bombings of Iran, since it might embolden them)

It was a dangerous and provocative action, the assassination of Suleimani. Last night was a shot across the bow. It was a "monstrous blunder", a General on one of the talks shows called it.

And now, the Congress wants an explanation.

Speaker Pelosi is expected to present a bill to repeal some of the powers in the present War Powers Resolution. Perhaps it should be repealed in entirety?

The surprise may be that when the Resolution is passed to the Senate, it may get more support than anyone might now imagine?

[3Hotdogs]

1. Yeah, but Gropenfuhrer won't sign it.

[gratuitous]

2. See, if the reasoning isn't persuasive, this becomes a targeted assassination and a war crime

I don't expect Congress to do anything about it, but we need to hit that point and keep hitting it. Trump has committed a war crime. The United States used to be against that sort of thing. Some of the Trumplodytes might even remember that, if we remind them often enough.

Keep chopping wood.

[babylonsister]

3. Per Mike Lee et al, the reasoning wasn't persuasive.

A targeted assassination and a war crime...works for me, because that's what it was. On a whim no less.