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Trump mocks Democrats' push for notice before further military action on Iran
NBC "News" ^ | January 10, 2020 | By Shannon Pettypiece and Monica Alba

Posted on 01/10/2020 6:26:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: mylife

Everyone knows including the scumbags at NBC that if Trump had informed the rats Salami would still be alive.


21 posted on 01/10/2020 7:01:33 AM PST by gibsonguy
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The enemedia would NEVER reveal anything that would place American lives in danger.

Oh, wait....
22 posted on 01/10/2020 7:07:41 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: RandallFlagg

“The enemedia would NEVER reveal anything that would place American lives in danger”

The “Enemedia”....Clever and fitting nickname.


23 posted on 01/10/2020 7:30:23 AM PST by Hurricane
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To: Hurricane

BTTT


24 posted on 01/10/2020 7:32:54 AM PST by Hurricane
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To: Hurricane

I invented it because of their behavior during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=enemedia


25 posted on 01/10/2020 7:38:21 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: Da Coyote

“Tell a Democrat, tell the enemy.”

And its no recent development.

During WW2 Rep Andrew May (D-KY) was chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee.
During a junket to Hawaii in 1943 he was briefed by the naval station at Pearl Harbor. When he returned to DC he held a press conference and disclosed that US subs were escaping Japanese depth charge attacks by diving deeper than the Japanese thought the subs could go. The press ran with the leak and soon after the Pacific sub fleet suffered a string of 10 submarine losses.
Admiral Charles Lockwood stated “I hear Congressman May said the Jap depth charges are not set deep enough. He would be pleased to know that the Japs set them deeper now.”

Congressman May also lobbied the Defense dept for the Garsson brothers who were awarded military contracts to supply 4.2 inch mortar shells even though they had no munitions experience.
Unfortunately for US troops the Garsson brothers produced shells with defective fuzes causing some to explode in the tube or even before they were dropped into the tube.

For his efforts on behalf of the Garssons and other “irregularities” May lost his reelection race in 1946.
In 1947 he and both Garsson brothers were convicted of war profiteering.
The jury took only two hours to return the guilty verdict.
May was pardoned by President Harry Truman.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_J._May


26 posted on 01/10/2020 7:49:46 AM PST by oldvirginian (I know not what course others may take but as for me Give me Liberty or give me death)
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To: RandallFlagg

Looks like “Niggardly Eisenflower” beat you to that by about a year


27 posted on 01/10/2020 7:59:14 AM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Pollster1

There woulda bin a hang’in if the leaker, er Traitor, were caught.

Also could you imagine is the leaker pasta long-expected casualty counts. It’s pretty easy to assume the allies understood there would be stacks of American, Canadian, and British fallen across northern France. But they were in it to save the world.


28 posted on 01/10/2020 7:59:27 AM PST by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever. my)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just to be clear, The War Powers Act is 100% UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

That is all...


29 posted on 01/10/2020 8:03:07 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: 1FreeAmerican

Actually, I did an extensive search back then.
I was the very first person to use that word online anywhere in 2003.
I didn’t post it to Urban Dictionary until 2014.


30 posted on 01/10/2020 8:03:16 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pelosi would not even answer a call from VP Pence when missiles were fired from Iran at Americans in Iraq. She said to an aide she would call him back later!


31 posted on 01/10/2020 8:13:33 AM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
If there are troops already there, the president doesn’t need Congress to act in their defense. It was Congress that put them in Iraq in the first place.

That's the most succinct defense I've heard yet. That makes perfect sense.

32 posted on 01/10/2020 8:15:07 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One only needs to point to the Kenyan from Indonesia warning Iran of the previous attempt to take out the general by Israel.


33 posted on 01/10/2020 8:30:14 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: mylife
Needs the Kenyan from Indonesia for that
34 posted on 01/10/2020 8:33:14 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RandallFlagg

Remember that. Was in total disbelief. He had a good gig.


35 posted on 01/10/2020 8:37:17 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1215393456589279233

WATCH: In 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder argued that the targeted elimination of a “senior operational leader” of a terrorist group or country who “presents an an imminent threat of violent attack” is NOT an “assassination,” it is SELF DEFENSE.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-eric-holder-speaks-northwestern-university-school-law

Holder in 2012: “the Constitution does NOT require the President to delay action until some theoretical end-stage of planning – when the precise time, place, and manner of an attack become clear. Such a requirement would create an unacceptably high risk”


36 posted on 01/10/2020 8:40:40 AM PST by maggief
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Suppose some insane foreign power attacks the US? The president needs to act swiftly, strategically, and often without telling the media (which will tell the democrats which will tell our enemies.)

The dems hope something happens. Then, when Trump responds, they will use that in Articles of Impeachment II.

If Trump didn’t do anything, they would make an issue out of that. Do not underestimate the hypocrisy of the democrats (excrement be their name.)


37 posted on 01/10/2020 8:43:22 AM PST by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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To: silverleaf

*** joy ride over NYC retracing the fi ***

Victory Lap


38 posted on 01/10/2020 9:18:02 AM PST by Surrounded_too
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

By law, he has 48 hours, after the fact, to inform congress he did something in response to an attack upon US citizens and/or properties. He did that. He can remain in there, if we were and aren’t, for 60 days without congress’s okay. It hasn’t reached that point yet. So what’s the real problem?

It is that the War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act) (50 U.S.C. 1541–1548) is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president’s power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. It acrtually failed because of the way it is written and it would conflict the Constitution if it were written without a leeway of immediate conflict needs as determined by the commander.

If this is the case, and it looks like that is what the house wants to do, then there is no need for a president and congress will run the whole thing. And since there can’t be two entities trying to interpret the Constitution, a document the house has been sidestepping since they started liberal control in the early 50’s, then the senate will have to go.

Seems to me this is one of the major reasons the civil war started.

rwood


39 posted on 01/10/2020 9:47:56 AM PST by Redwood71
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