Sanders: 'if Congress wants to go to war, let Congress have the guts to vote for war'

[bluewater]

Bernie Sanders, campaigning in Iowa, says 'if Congress wants to go to war, let Congress have the guts to vote for war'

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders opened a campaign event Saturday calling for immediate Congressional action to stop President Donald Trump from launching the U.S. into a war with Iran.

His comments came a day after he called the “assassination” of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani “a dangerous escalation” and a step toward “another disastrous war in the Middle East.”

Trump authorized a drone strike Thursday night on a convoy that included Soleimani as it left a Baghdad airport. Soleimani headed Iran’s elite Quds Force. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, Soleimani was planning attacks on American diplomats and military service members in Iraq and the surrounding region. The government has not detailed those plans.
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Sanders said a first course of action when the Senate returns from its current recess next week should be to restrain Trump from “plunging our nation into yet another endless war.” He and U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., are introducing legislation to restrict federal money from being used to fund offensive military action against or in Iran.

"Our founding fathers gave the responsibility over war not to the president, but to Congress," Sanders said. "That is very clear in the Constitution. And in my view, Congress must, must act in the face of a president who has shown time and time again that he cannot be relied upon to tell us the truth or to make well thought out decisions."

Sanders said Saturday Congress needs to reassert its responsibility to authorize war, and called for the body to take that authority back. Sanders last year introduced a bipartisan resolution invoking the War Powers Act to end U.S. involvement in Saudi Arabia’s war against Yemen. Trump vetoed it.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2020/01/04/bernie-sanders-says-congress-must-assert-war-powers-after-qassem-soleimani-killed/2805285001/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Congress? Congress doesnt have any say anymore in anything, hell we dont even

have the traitors tax returns.

We will go to war no matter what Congress wants, this is the New America.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. The republic is gasping for air and

Nero is warming up his fiddle.

[pangaia]

6. Exactly. Bernie and Nancy and all the rest , as great as they all are,

are basically now powerless..

And I have no idea what the answer is....

It is ALL ON REPUBLICANS.


THIS is what everybody must ram home minute after minute.
REPUBLICANS ARE TRAITORS destroying American democracy !!

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread bluewater.

[George II]

3. This is interesting:

Sanders said a first course of action when the Senate returns from its current recess next week should be to restrain Trump from “plunging our nation into yet another endless war.” He and U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., are introducing legislation to restrict federal money from being used to fund offensive military action against or in Iran.

Will he actually BE in the Senate next week when they return from their current recess? The last time he was there was on June 28, more than six months ago. He's missed the last 238 votes out of a total of 428 this session. That's 56%.

It should be noted that Ro Khanna is national co-chair of Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign.

[pangaia]

7. Actually, he is not by any means the only member of congress to miss a pile

of votes while campaigning...

[George II]

9. I believe all the other Senators who are/were running found their way back to DC on occasion.....

....to cast votes. None had 200+ consecutive no-votes. But they ALL should be doing the jobs for which they're getting $174K, or they should resign.

[pangaia]

11. You are right on both counts...

[ritapria]

5. Bernie teamed up with Republicans to stop US involvement

in the Genocidal Saudi war against Yemen …….Our media don't give a damn about this grave humanitarian crisis ...This War Powers Resolution Initiative was passed by the Senate with a margin of 56 - 41 …. Bernie's bill was vetoed by Trump …. Leaders Lead ...Followers parse every word - lest the chattering class be offended ….

[George II]

10. "Chattering class"? REALLY?

[NYMinute]

8. I am waiting for Sanders to introduce a bill to stop Trump from starting a war

otherwise, it is all just politically motivated hot air.

[billpolonsky]

12. Ya whatever

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/01/04/qasem-soleimani-bernie-sanders-khanna-bill-would-limit-iran-action/2812727001/

[Joe941]

13. This is true leadership.

[Hortensis]

14. :) Or the usual false equalization against Democrats.

"Congress."

How is it that his supporters never admit that he's kept hold of his golden ring by voting WITH all those evil corporatist Democrats for going on 30 years? The few times he deviates are usually either to serve his big donors or to align with other Republican positions.

And then he claims Democrats are really just like Republicans and responsible for Republican crimes. Aren't there some words for that kind of behavior?