'We're not at war right now': House Speaker Johnson makes stunning claim after Trump's barrage on Iran
Source: Independent
House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected the idea that the United States is at war with Iran despite President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth both saying the U.S. is at war.
The speaker delivered his weekly press conference, his first since Trump and Israel launched strikes on Iran over the weekend, and rejected the notion that the House needed to have a vote on the War Powers Act as the U.S. Senate was expected to later Wednesday.
Were not at war right now, were four days into a very specific, clear mission and operation, Johnson told reporters. Rather, Johnson maintained that Iran had declared war on the United States after the U.S. strikes that wiped out their leadership structure.
The claim comes despite the president's announcement of strikes on Iran alongside Israel. The White House and the Pentagon have dubbed the mission Operation Epic Fury.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/not-war-now-house-speaker-160948266.html
Putting your lips on Trump's ass has damaged your brain Johnson
Solly Mack
(96,780 posts)riversedge
(80,395 posts)twodogsbarking
(18,340 posts)twodogsbarking
(18,340 posts)relayerbob
(7,410 posts)ananda
(34,820 posts)then Congress can't abdicate its responsibility
in that regard.
Right.
mdbl
(8,505 posts)Kid Berwyn
(24,008 posts)Spineless weasel, FTR.
Ray Bruns
(6,202 posts)Ray Bruns
(6,202 posts)How did Mike Johnson say all that with Trumps dick in his mouth?
orangecrush
(29,868 posts)BattleRow
(2,236 posts)FakeNoose
(41,139 posts)
AZ8theist
(7,242 posts)
cstanleytech
(28,388 posts)Wonder Why
(6,790 posts)bluedigger
(17,426 posts)First time since '45, if memory serves. I guess our definitions of wartime activities differs.
BattleRow
(2,236 posts)struggle4progress
(125,954 posts)That's an act of war in anybody's book
in2herbs
(4,372 posts)going to get to volunteer to fight? I'm pretty sure non-whites won't volunteer (and I hope they don't.)
Uncle Joe
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killing everyone in his administration, we wouldn't be at war with said country because said country was just doing a "very specific clear mission."
I've heard of turning the other cheek but I can't imagine that even "Johnson's Baby Powder" would take the stratospheric road in that case.
Thanks for the thread Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Dan
(5,073 posts)On a fact finding mention on the ground.
chouchou
(3,059 posts)"On the other hand, we're not actually married"
sarisataka
(22,450 posts)The GOP members have neutered themselves. They may not have passed an Enabling Act but it is clear they are going to let Trump rule by fiat.
Aussie105
(7,803 posts)Not really a war as such, people aren't really being killed, things really aren't being bombed and blown up.
The dead are crisis actors who go home when the cameras are off, the buildings in rubble is just CGI.
George Orwell smiles!
The double talk is just his style.
It's operation 'slightly angry', not Epic fury.
Made for the evening news for US MAGA propaganda believer consumption.
Other sane media sources like Al Jazeera, BBC (UK), DW seem to think it's an undeclared war.
Trump and Johnson need a stiff word with them to get them to see things more clearly.
The question no one, not even George Orwell, asked directly:
Who benefits?
BootinUp
(51,127 posts)Ford_Prefect
(8,572 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(22,760 posts)LudwigPastorius
(14,530 posts)Do tell, Mikey...cause nobody else knows what that could be.
BigmanPigman
(54,980 posts)Aussie105
(7,803 posts)when he sent boots on the ground to Iraq to find WMDs that didn't exist?
It was only some 20 years ago.
BidenRocks
(3,119 posts)Ignoring the obvious or trying to sell us a load of crap?
We're not buying!
Ol Janx Spirit
(947 posts)I'm sure he will update his position once he's had a chance to get his opinion from the Administration and his pastor.
Besides, what part of "very specific, clear mission and operation" do we not understand?
I mean, "specific" can mean a lot of things. It is not a word that indicates any sort of precision--come on now.
"Clear" can mean almost anything as well. It's just a matter of perspective--and squinting. Don't forget the squinting.
So, if you squint, you can see clearly that we specifically attacked Iran because Iran was going to attack us because Israel was going to attack them because they were a week away from having a nuclear weapon in a year that could be launched from a missile that doesn't exist and has not been tested tomorrow and hit the United States with Shariah law and undermine the Christian Nationalist fever dreams of millions of Americans that claim to follow Jesus but cheer on cruelty to the very people Jesus would be trying to protect while worshiping a cruel, lying, cheating, grifting, pedophile who has 34 felonies and has been convicted of sexual abuse in a court of law.
See? It all makes sense....
MissHoneychurch
(33,618 posts)Guess, he can't answer with his typical "First I have heard of that. I need to look into it ... yaddayaddayadda "
What a spineless little man.