Republican Senator Rand Paul told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Monday that he believes that Congress needs to approve a declaration of war with Iraq after President Donald Trump's termination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. 'I think killing a country's major general is an act of war,' said Paul.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Monday that he believes Congress must have a chance to vote on President Donald Trump's moves toward a war with Iran and has discussed a War Powers Resolution with co-sponsor, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine.
After telling Blitzer that Congress was looking at Kaine's War Powers Resolution, Rand said that he has always been in support of declarations of war, but that saying Soleimani posed an imminent threat to U.S. interests was incorrect. "Whether it's been a Democrat president, I've been a stickler that the way to make war rare is to make it to where you actually have to vote on it in Congress and that it has to be overwhelming," Paul continued."There have been times—where we were attacked on 9/11, virtually everybody voted to go after those who attacked us. Same way with Pearl Harbor."
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Monday that he believes President Donald Trump needs permission for his military actions against Iran.Paul said that Americans were not safer after Soleimani's death, with attacks by Iran against Americans being"much more likely."
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