6/21/19 Jon Schwarz on the AUMF and War with Iran

by | Jun 22, 2019 |

Scott talks to Jon Schwarz about the threat of war with Iran in retaliation for shooting down an American drone and allegedly attacking Japanese tankers in the Gulf of Oman. Mike Pompeo recently claimed that the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, intended to be used against Al-Qaeda, also authorizes the president to go to war with Iran if he wants to. Luckily—for the time being—there are enough people around Trump and among the democrats who strongly oppose war with Iran that he seems to have backed down. Discussed on the show: "2020 Democratic Candidates Counter Mike Pompeo's...

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White House: Drone May Have Crossed Into Iranian Airspace

by | Jun 21, 2019 |

An important paragraph buried down in the middle of this one in the Times: But a senior Trump administration official said there was concern inside the United States government about whether the drone, or another American surveillance aircraft, or even the P-8A manned aircraft flown by a military aircrew, actually did violate Iranian airspace at some point. The official said the doubt was one of the reasons Mr. Trump called off the strike. Close enough for government work.

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USA Almost Attacked Iran Tonight

by | Jun 20, 2019 |

I had a tip at 8 eastern that they were going to attack in one hour. Then the Tucker show started. Then the attack was called off. I'm willing to bet it was Tucker and Macgregor who stopped a war tonight. The New York Times says Trump had authorized the strike and planes were in the air before he changed his mind and called it off. Pompeo, Bolton and Bloody Gina Haspel were pushing him to do it.

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Neocons Never Die

by | Jun 20, 2019 |

They just keep writing for the New York Times. Via Andrew Bacevich, check out the ever blood-thirsty Bret Stephens get over Iraq War II with hardly any effort at all. The fight against the Sunni insurgency in the Anbar Province might continue to rage in 2019, but to Stephens it's all just ancient history: "A Pew survey from last November found that only 31 percent of Americans believed that “promoting and defending human rights in other countries” should be a leading foreign policy priority. "Promoting democracy? Seventeen percent. "Much of this is the hangover from Iraq, just as a previous...

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