Omar and others Critical of Biden and Syria

[RMNIXON]

Ilhan Omar, other progressives question Biden's 'legal rationale' for Syria airstrikes





Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said Friday she was concerned about the White House’s "legal rationale" for launching airstrikes in Syria a day earlier without congressional approval.

"We in Congress have congressional oversight in engaging in war and we haven’t been briefed yet and we have not authorized war in Syria," Omar told CNN.

Omar had retweeted a resurfaced 2017 post from now-White House press secretary Jen Psaki that had questioned the Trump administration’s "legal authority" for conducting airstrikes against the "sovereign" country at the time.

"Great question," Omar responded to the four-year-old tweet in light of the Biden administration’s military action announced Thursday.

"Her question was important when it was a different administration and that question still remains with this administration," Omar told CNN's John King. "Our ability to engage in constitutional actions does not diminish when the party in power is ours."

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle criticized the strike, including Republican Reps. Nancy Mace, R-S.C.; Jim Banks, R-Ind.; Rand Paul, R-Ky.; and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.; and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.; and Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; and Tim Kaine, D-Va.

"While the President has a responsibility to defend the people of the United States, our Constitution is clear that it is the Congress, not the President, who has the authority to declare war," Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said in a statement Friday, adding in a tweet he was "very concerned by last night’s strike by U.S. forces in Syria."

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I don't question the legality of the strike at all.

I simply worry that this could escalate into another boots on the ground confrontation. I worry about American lives not Muslim Terrorists.

[Jeb!]

Well, if Islamist Omar is criticizing you on foreign policy, you're probably doing something right.

[RMNIXON]

Well, if Islamist Omar is criticizing you on foreign policy, you're probably doing something right.

I actually prefer the occasional bombing to Nation Building failure when the savages in the ME will never take to that anyway. That is the real problem, not permission from far lefty Peaceniks and Muslims in the Congress.

[Peter1469]

Interesting. She of course is only concerned because Muslims were on the receiving end of the munitions.

They were targeted because they are Iranian proxies.