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Home Front: Politix
Kaine introduces resolution to block war with Iran
2020-01-05
[The Hill] Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Friday introduced a resolution to block President Trump from further escalating hostilities with Iran.

The resolution is privileged, which means Republicans cannot block it from reaching the floor, and comes the day after the surprise drone strike that killed Iraninan Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s elite Quds Force.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed "forceful revenge" against the U.S., and the Pentagon announced Friday that it will send 3,000 additional troops to the Middle East.

Kaine’s resolution requires that any hostilities with Iran must be explicitly authorized by a congressional declaration of war or a specific authorization for the use of military force, though it does not prevent the United States from defending itself from imminent attack, according to a summary of the measure released by his office.
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  When a Paki origin nuke goes off in New York or DC, creatures like Kaine will immediately call for a handicap on the next prexidential erection because 12 million or more reliable dem voters died as a result of dem policies.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-01-05 21:14  

#8  So when they nuke us there will be a law that prevents us from doing anything about it?

Does Kaine want us out of Syria too? Out of Iraq? What happens when ISIS gets out of control again? Does he want us out of ME altogether? What happens when Iran smokes the Soddies again? (We know that Kaine doesn't care if they smoke the Juice.)
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-01-05 20:22  

#7  Kaine surrenders!
Posted by: Airandee   2020-01-05 12:58  

#6  Make him personally read the entire list of Americans Diplomats held hostage by the Iranians on the Senate floor first. See if he has the stones to do it.
Posted by: magpie   2020-01-05 12:03  

#5  Maybe get him to offer up a resolution to get the last of the Clinton-Kaine signs and bumper stickers taken away...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-01-05 11:37  

#4  More likely to be effective if you can get it thru the Persian Parliment.
Posted by: Mercutio   2020-01-05 09:21  

#3  K not C?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2020-01-05 05:07  

#2  Any congresscritter ever introduce a bill to block war with our indigenous natives 1792-1892?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-01-05 02:33  

#1  Never gonna pass the Senate.

But we don't need to go to war with Iran. Just keep it from making money and nature will take care of the rest.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-01-05 01:55  

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