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Also need to get a better idea of why the assassination happened in Iraq and included a prominent Iraqi. Seemed destined to damage/destroy our relations w/Iraq. Was that necessary, wise? nytimes.com/2020/01/03/wor…
2/So tonight the US apparently conducted another kill mission in Iraq, one assumes without Iraqi permission. Seems extraordinary.
3/Yikes.

I also want to say that some of the Administration's "they will treat us as liberators" talk particularly about Shi'a in the region sounds stunningly naive.
4/Video of Iraqi Prime Minister attending the services for #Souleimani this morning in Baghdad.
5/Isn't this what Iran wanted? To get the US out of Iraq? usatoday.com/story/news/wor…
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Serious question. If McConnell blocks requested witnesses, can what the Senate is abt to do be called a trial? Does it meet the Constitutional standard for one?

When lawyers argue in front of SCOTUS, w/no witnesses, it is called "arguments." Not a trial.

Is there an example in our legal system of something called a trial happening w/o witnesses? Isn't the whole point of a trial to hear from witnesses?

My question - can the House challenge the Constitutionality of McConnell's plan as something which fails to qualify as a trial?
Constitution requires a "trial" not "arguments" or debate. Trials have witnesses. Thus, McConnell has no choice other than to allow witnesses or he isn't meeting the Constitutional requirement to have a trial.
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1/In a piece I wrote a few weeks ago, I argued that Trump had softened his stance on Iran as part of a broader alignment of US policy with Russia's. ndn.org/blog/2019/12/l…
2/Bolton resigned over what he saw as Trump's growing appeasement of Iran. ndn.org/blog/2019/12/l…

Iran's recent aggression towards the US may have come from what they viewed as their partner Putin's influence over Trump.
3/Recall that @maggieNYT reported that part of what created the breach between Bolton and Trump was Bolton's unwillingness to defend the President's slavish attitude towards Putin.
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A trial without witnesses is like a democracy without voting.

Rs may have found that "Soviet" style trial they were looking for.

Outrage over what Rs trying to do here must get very very loud.
2/If you are looking to put pressure on 2020 Senate Rs, consider giving to:

AZ - @ShuttleCDRKelly
CO - @hickenlooper
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ME - @SaraGideon
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SC - @harrisonjaime

I will be donating to all six today. Will you join me?
@ShuttleCDRKelly @Hickenlooper @GreenfieldIowa @SaraGideon @CalforNC @harrisonjaime 3/So, Senate Rs, if we are going to invoke the 1998 Clinton Impeachment precedent, a reminder that in that investigation the President of the United States testified under oath, as did his staff.

Should be the standard here too.
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