'History has proven her right': Barbara Lee's anti-war push succeeds on Iran

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'History has proven her right': Barbara Lee's anti-war push succeeds on Iran
The veteran liberal Democrat helped unite her caucus on legislation to restrict Trump's authority to attack Iran.
By SARAH FERRIS
01/10/2020 12:57 PM EST
Updated: 01/10/2020 01:10 PM EST


Longtime anti-war dissident Barbara Lee’s name wasn’t on the resolution the House overwhelmingly approved on Thursday to halt hostilities with Iran. That distinction went to Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a freshman Democrat who served multiple tours in Iraq as a top-level CIA analyst.

But it was the 73-year-old congresswoman who had helped push the Democratic caucus over decades to unite and hold President Donald Trump’s presidential military powers in check, according to interviews with nearly a dozen of her colleagues.

“The historical and current credit needs to be given to her,” Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said. “Even if it was a Democratic president, even if it was Obama, it was her courage and her consistency to say, ‘This is a role for Congress.’”

“More times than not, history has proven her right,” he added.

It was Lee who, in 2001, stood alone in a bruised and angry America to oppose post-Sept. 11 warfare. A generation later, the California Democrat is helping to lead a party-wide crackdown on the expansion of Trump’s presidential war powers.

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Barbara Lee is great

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She always walks the walk