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Without congressional approval and in clear violation of America’s Constitution, President Biden on Sunday ordered two bombing raids on Syria and one in Iraq killing soldiers and civilians.
The Pentagon mouthpiece, John Kirby, said the strikes were “necessary, appropriate, and deliberate” and essential to protect U.S. troops stationed in Iraq. He also said, “the United States acted pursuant to its right of self-defense.”
The Associated Press reported that Iran-backed factions in Iraq called for revenge over the airstrikes and said in a joint statement that they will “avenge the blood of our righteous martyrs against the perpetrators of this heinous crime.”
A spokesman from the Iraq Foreign Ministry said the airstrikes will disrupt the security in the region. As we reported back in March, in an article titled, “ISRAEL STRIKES SYRIA—U.S. JOINS THE FIGHT,” Biden signed off on airstrikes in Syria in response to rocket attacks against U.S. personnel and coalition forces in Iraq.
Mary Ellen O’Connell, a law professor at Notre Dame and expert on the lawful use of force, said the strikes ordered by Biden were a “grave violation of international law.”
When President Biden was asked about the airstrikes when he returned to the White House from Camp David, he told the Presstitutes, “I’ll talk to you tomorrow.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blessed the airstrikes and said they were “targeted and proportional” and “Protecting the military heroes who defend our freedoms is a sacred priority.”
Mahmoud Abdelwahed, who works for Al Jazeera, called the airstrikes by the U.S. “significant.”
“The PMF [Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces] say that they will attack American military facilities with missiles,” he said. “Politicians affiliated with the PMF have also been tweeting, saying the United States only understands the language of force.”
No Nuke Deal
The airstrikes were ordered while the Biden administration tries to revive talks about the 2015 Iran nuclear deal after recent setbacks, including the presidential election win of hardliner Ebrahim Raisi.
The Washington Post reported that there have been six rounds of negotiations in Vienna and there have been no breakthroughs. The paper reported that Raisi has shown no interest in holding talks with the U.S.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Yair Lapid, the Israeli foreign minister, on Sunday and Lapid expressed “serious reservations” about the Biden administration’s desire to return to the nuclear deal.
“Israel has some serious reservations about the Iran nuclear deal that is being put together in Vienna,” Lapid said from a hotel in Rome, where the two were meeting. “We believe the way to discuss those disagreements is through direct and professional conversations, not in press conferences.”
TRENDPOST: The White House claims that Article II of the U.S. Constitution gives Biden the right to bomb anyone and any nation he wants at any time. However, Article II stipulates that when a war is launched the president is the commander in chief. It does not empower the president to launch wars.
In fact, Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, states only “The Congress shall have Power…to declare war.”
Thus, Biden’s bombing is in direct violation of the Constitution, yet the mainstream media swallow the White House lies and refer to those who were killed by Americans, who are fighting the U.S. invaders, as “militants.”
Also absent from the coverage by the Presstitutes is that the White House mouthpiece Kirby’s statement that “the United States acted pursuant to its right of self-defense,” is an outright lie.
America had invaded and occupied Iraq on former President George W. Bush’s lie that Saddam Hussain had weapons of mass destruction and has illegally invaded and occupied parts of Syria on former President Barack Obama’s demand that it’s President, Bashar al-Assad, “has to go.”
TRENDPOST: In our 26 January article, “BIDEN PRESIDENCY = OBAMA 2021,” we pointed out that defense chief Lloyd Austin occupied a seat on several corporate boards including Raytheon Technologies, one of the country’s largest military contractors.
And Avril D. Haines, the director of National Intelligence, served as the Deputy National Security Advisor in the Obama administration, which, according to Democracy Now!, authorized drone strikes to “carry out targeted extrajudicial assassinations.”