1. United States
2. Va.
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Please support a resolution prohibiting further strikes on Iran. Please join AOC in calling for Trump’s impeachment. He must be held accountable. Trump’s bombing of Iran tonight, with no or very limited (partisan) Congressional consultation, is an egregious overstepping of presidential power, and an impeachable offense. Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States. Trump' s own intelligence apparatus had determined that Iran was not close to being able to deliver a nuclear strike on anybody, much less the US. We were not attacked. There was no existing treaty that Iran was in violation of, because Trump himself abandoned and withdrew from the Iran Nuclear Deal that the Obama Administration negotiated, which would have given more firm legal justification for use of military force if Iran had violated the terms. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 sought to limit the president’s ability to deploy the military to three types of situations: a declaration of war, specific statutory authorization, or a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces. The situation with Iran meets none of these criteria. Trump’s actions today were reckless and illegal, circumventing plausible diplomatic solutions and opting for overt and unauthorized military action that could imperil American soldiers and citizens in the coming days, months and years.