Today, our current chapter in world history just got far more tenuous…
Today, the US and Israel bombed a girl’s elementary school in Iran. At least 85 girls are dead between 7 and 12 years old. They were in class when the bombs hit. Backpacks and schoolbooks in the rubble.
The Iranian people are already suffering. These airstrikes will not deliver freedom.
The deaths of dozens of school children is harrowing proof that this ill thought and unauthorized act of war will only put innocent families in the crossfire… so Trump can pretend to be a wartime king on TV.
Trump bypassed Congress, violated the Constitution, and dragged us into a conflict we didn’t choose and will pay for with lives and money that should be going to families, schools, and healthcare.
This is what “freedom” imposed by bombs looks like. It is not the place of the U.S. to decide the future of Iran or any soverign nation. Only its people can do that.
Now tonight, Iran has sworn reprisal against both Israeli and US military bases.
Trump’s bombing of Iran is reckless and a direct threat to American and Iranian lives. Launching military strikes without congressional authorization or evidence of an imminent threat is not strength. It is a blatant abuse of power.
We are in deep solidarity with the everyday people of Iran. We grieve with everyone suffering. We oppose this war.
Our solemn Action For The Day is to tell our Members of Congress to use every lever in their toolbox to put an IMMEDIATE stop to this war.
Hagerty
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Blackburn
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Fleischmann
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Tim Burchett
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This group is always about action and we carefully avoid catastrophizing… but we all DESERVE to be angry and heartbroken tonight.
Take that emotion to the people we ELECT and PAY to protect and represent us here AND AROUND THE GLOBE.
Because they ARE NOT.
How many times have we begged them to pass a war powers resolution??
Yet here we are again.
Today… the most innocent of lives were lost because of THEIR failure to act.