In a rebuke of his own party’s rhetoric, congressman Eric Swalwell said this weekend, “Now is the time for values-based arguments against war with Iran,” adding: “NOT process (‘Come to Congress’) ones.”
His point is well taken, but I’m skeptical that the opposition to the strike is focused on the machine that made it inevitable, instead of focused on Trump individually.
Don’t worry, guys! If some country bombed, let’s say for example, 2 of our buildings in NYC, would we treat that as act of war? Nah… probably not. Surely we’d just shrug and move on with peace negotiations!
I also heard that when just a single harbor was bombed, that too was considered an act of war?
No we would do the right thing and blame the religion that those people ostensibly used to justify their terrorism that about ~1 billion other people practice who don’t commit terrorism, become super Xenophobic about it and violate the privacy of countless Americans who practice that religion (or I guess could be mistaken for doing so by idiots?) and completely avoid thinking about what motivated the acts of terror or what the intentions of the attack were (which was to get us to do exactly what we did to a T).
"I don’t know if this is technically a war,” Senator Lindsay Graham said of the un-war in Iran on Meet the Press on Sunday.
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But it is not just Trump loyalists who are playing word games. Democrats also have a hard time calling this what it is, with the party’s top officials using terms like “Military attack,” “military operation,” “military assault,” and the like.
Sen. Chuck Schumer says the strikes are “risking wider conflict”; Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says the operation has “brought us to the brink of a possible war.”
What a revolting display of writhing human invertebrates.
Obviously it’s a ‘special military operation’.
Or a special police action to fight the Nazi’s?
Controlled opposition in full effect.
Turns out Killing All The Brown People was a bipartisan consensus.
War is peace, don’t you know?
Republicans like to call what is developing in Iran a “специальная военная операция” or more commonly known as Special Military Operation comrades.
It’s just Sparkling Conflict.
Yes yes, of course the US can do all the war stuff, including war crimes, but unless our sacred institutional leaders all agree to call it a war and then sign the sacred war parchment after the master of arms holds the staff of truth then obviously it’s not a war. Great stuff, very compelling world we live in.
Oh, not technically a “war” but a submarine just sank one of their battleships in international waters. That sounds like a war to me.
This is either a war or an international war crime and you have to remove him plus Hegseth from office.
Decide you fleckless sycophants.
I saw that dumbass Anna Paulina do a bunch of semantic games over “boots on the ground”. It was a real WTAF moment.
