We must do more than just stop war with Iran.

We must firmly commit to ending U.S. military presence in the Middle East in an orderly manner.

We must end our involvement in the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen.

We must bring our troops home from Afghanistan.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) January 3, 2020

the Constitution. I tend to think Tulsi is right about that.

And now I look forward to seeing her follow up by proposing an additional article of impeachment to include this latest lawless action. It would be an obvious follow-up question for any reasonably alert reporter, then I noticed this was an interview on Fox & Friends.

Waiting on Tulsi for the obvious next step, but until then, this was a pretty good statement.

...that can or will be enforced. The Senators are either ignorant and cannot learn from experience — or they are gaslighting the Left for votes and funding, as usual. The worthless constitution has not stopped any of our heinous foreign wars, especially those that execute Israel's foreign policy.

That's the danger of a population that worships an obsolete incomplete slave-owners constitution written on the ass of a sheep with a feather pen, that nobody knows how to read. Oh, wait... the Citizens United judges will tell us what it really means.

"This was very clearly an act of war by this president without any kind of authorization or declaration of war from Congress, clearly violating the Constitution," said Gabbard.

Sad. She's high on dupe.

This is a war-profiteer operation. There is no other cause. Those profits come out of the pockets of the American people. Resistance is a felony. They will have nothing to show for it but growing dystopian desperation. The US constitution has worked absolutely perfectly to bring all of us to this point in time: both the 1 percent and the disposable, throw-away people. You only need to read the flimsy thing and compare it to a modern constitution to see how the American people got shafted, lost their generational sovereignty, and ended up with revokable rights.

But killing a regular soldier or officer is not.

This was a really dumb strategic move by Iran. They put their best general in harm's way. Under the AUMF, the US military has had the approval of Congress to take whatever military action it deems necessary in Iraq since the Iraq war began. Iran gave the US military carte blanch to take out it's best general.

Sometimes countries and movements are really taken down by the removal of their leader. (Think of MLK and the Civil Rights movement -- never the same after his death). And this assassination may well put a huge damper on Iran's influence in the Middle East for awhile. If you are Putin, you have to think that putting this general's life in such jeopardy was a really dumb move. And maybe Jinping is thinking the same thing. Who wants to be allies with stupid?

If this guy was the general people are saying he was, his replacement is not likely to be anywhere nearly as good as he was. Iran may be playing the long game, but it may not be nearly as effective going forward.

Did I think Trump called the shots on this? Not at all. This was a Bay of Pigs move by the military/CIA that I think would have occurred without his consent. Maybe Trump considered what happened to JFK when JFK added some restrictions to the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Before Iran can ramp up any more shit, it will have to do some serious regrouping. I am not convinced this means war at all. But I could be absolutely wrong.

I just wish we would get out of the middle east, as I am as anti-war as it gets, but I have long lost any illusions that any of our civilian leaders can control our military/deep state.

As somebody else here put it eloquently, that is not how our chain of command works.