Omar, Ocasio-Cortez Call Trump's Latest Iran Comment A 'War Crime'

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David Rufful
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President Trump’s decision to order a military drone strike to take out the world’s number one terrorist ruffled Democratic feathers, but his latest comment about Iran has some Democrats accusing him of committing a war crime.
Democratic congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar both took to Twitter to accuse the president of committing a war crime… for simply sending a series of tweets.
Trump’s tweets were written in response to Iran, who is threatening retaliation for the U.S. killing its top military commander.
“Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recently hundreds of Iranian protesters,” Trump said in an initial tweet.
“He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations,” he continued. “Iran has been nothing but problems for many years.”
Trump then offered the Iranians a warning: “Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!”


Trump is not going to sit idle and allow American troops, its citizens, or its allies of being victims of Iran any longer. Enough is enough, he has made very clear.
The Washington Examiner adds:

Tensions between the United States and Iran have boiled over in the days following an airstrike ordered by Trump after Iranian-militants surrounded the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Thousands marched through the streets of Baghdad on Saturday, chanting, “Death to America.”
Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Congress had a “moral and legal obligation” to prevent war with Iran after Trump attacked top military leaders in Iraq.
Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated that “revenge awaits,” and Gen. Gholamali Abuhamzeh claimed Iran had 35 targets ready to attack, including the Strait of Hormuz.

Democrats in the House of Representatives, however, are against Trump’s decision.
“This is a war crime,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response to the president. “Threatening to target and kill innocent families, women and children – which is what you’re doing by targeting cultural sites – does not make you a ‘tough guy.'”
“It does not make you ‘strategic.’ It makes you a monster,” she added.


“The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes on Twitter,” Omar added. “God help us all!”


Here’s how some people responded to the congresswomen, via Twitchy:

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