Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, ripped Donald Trump for his military attack against Iran on Saturday, saying the move is “absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
Ocasio-Cortez ripped the president’s action on X, formerly Twitter, and wrote, “The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
On the other hand, Senator John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, came to Trump’s side and wrote on X, “As I’ve long maintained, this was the correct move by @POTUS. Iran is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism and cannot have nuclear capabilities. I’m grateful for and salute the finest military in the world.”
I think it depends. If Iran can be tenuously linked to AlQuaeda, then it’s legal.
Edit, I’m downvoted by people who don’t even know the laws of their country that have been (ab)used by every one of their presidents for the last 20 years…
Eh… We know that Iran was harbored AlQaeda, wouldn’t be hard to claim that they’re still doing it. I bring this up from time to time… While I was deployed to Jalalabad, we never had issues with the locals. Everyone that ever bombed that FOB while I was there was coming over the Iranian border and mortaring us from the mountains, then retreating back to Iran.
Sometimes we could get air assets up quickly enough to handle them before they got back to the Iranian border. But we couldn’t follow them into Iran. Many… many requests were made to Iran to stop this. Didn’t stop until the base was closed down due to the pull out.