President Donald Trump tweeted that his social media posts “serve as notification” to Congress that the U.S. will retaliate against any attack from Iran — and the House Foreign Affairs Committee wasn’t having it
The Twitter exchange came the same day that Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he had the presidential authority to act against Iran as he saw fit — and also threatened Iraq with sanctions if the country was hostile to him. The president also said Iraq would need to pay the United States back before the U.S. could even think of leaving: “We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that’s there. It cost billions of dollars to build. Long before my time.
Other lawmakers lambasted the president’s “notification” tweet. Rep. Mark Pocan, a Wisconsin Democrat,Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has insisted that the strike against Soleimani reduced risk and made the world “a safer place,” claiming the intelligence community had assessed that "the risk of doing nothing was enormous."
Later Sunday, aboard Air Force One, Trump told reporters that the U.S. could counter the Iraqi parliament’s move if the Iraqis are not polite about the situation: “If there’s any hostility, that they do anything we think is inappropriate, we are going to put sanctions on Iraq, very big sanctions on Iraq," he said.
Trump also said "we may discuss" releasing intelligence related to the Soleimani strike, and he addressed backlash to hisof targeting 52 Iranian sites — some of them culturally significant — if Iran retaliated for the general's death. The president stood by his threat on Sunday, even though it could be considered a war crime under international laws.
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