'We're not at war right now': House Speaker Johnson makes stunning claim after Trump's barrage on Iran

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Independent

House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected the idea that the United States is at war with Iran despite President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth both saying the U.S. is at war.

The speaker delivered his weekly press conference, his first since Trump and Israel launched strikes on Iran over the weekend, and rejected the notion that the House needed to have a vote on the War Powers Act as the U.S. Senate was expected to later Wednesday.

“We’re not at war right now, we’re four days into a very specific, clear mission and operation,” Johnson told reporters. Rather, Johnson maintained that Iran had declared war on the United States — after the U.S. strikes that wiped out their leadership structure.

The claim comes despite the president's announcement of strikes on Iran alongside Israel. The White House and the Pentagon have dubbed the mission “Operation Epic Fury.”



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Putting your lips on Trump's ass has damaged your brain Johnson

[Solly Mack]

1. Snort

[riversedge]

17. AGREE

[twodogsbarking]

2. Operation Epic Failure.

[twodogsbarking]

3. Mr. Dictionary, could you give us the definition of "child rape"?

[relayerbob]

4. Maybe we should call it a Special Military Operation

[ananda]

5. What a dance. If we're not at war...

then Congress can't abdicate its responsibility
in that regard.

Right.

[mdbl]

6. Another "Believe what I say not what you see" moment from Johnson the jerk.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Spoken like the true mindless weasel he is.

Spineless weasel, FTR.

[Ray Bruns]

9. I know, right? I have never seen one so spineless in my life.

[Ray Bruns]

8. We're not at war right now, we're four days into a very specific, clear mission and operation,"

How did Mike Johnson say all that with Trump’s dick in his mouth?

[orangecrush]

14. ...

[BattleRow]

15. Well Johnsons mouth is larger than the other johnson.

[FakeNoose]

22. Stormy Daniels can explain this

[AZ8theist]

29. We don't need Stormy to explain Trumps dick. Trump himself told us all how big it is:

[cstanleytech]

10. Operation Snow Flurry with the goal of trying to evade explaining the missing Epstein files.

[Wonder Why]

11. If they don't admit it's a war, there are no war dead. Like the million casualties of Russian "Special Operation"

[bluedigger]

12. A US submarine sank an Iranian frigate with a torpedo.

First time since '45, if memory serves. I guess our definitions of wartime activities differs.

[BattleRow]

16. Redefining a little bit pregnant?

[struggle4progress]

27. +

That's an act of war in anybody's book

[in2herbs]

13. If we're not a war and we don't have a draft, but we're putting boots on the ground, who is F45

going to get to volunteer to fight? I'm pretty sure non-whites won't volunteer (and I hope they don't.)

[Uncle Joe]

18. By that logic if another nation destroyed the White House even worse than *rump already has

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killing everyone in his administration, we wouldn't be at war with said country because said country was just doing a "very specific clear mission."

I've heard of turning the other cheek but I can't imagine that even "Johnson's Baby Powder" would take the stratospheric road in that case.

Thanks for the thread Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

[Dan]

19. Mr. Johnson, please take your ass-kissing self to Iran

On a fact finding mention on the ground.

[chouchou]

20. I'll tell my husband: "Yes darling, we had a wedding 29 years ago and we've said our vows"

"On the other hand, we're not actually married"

[sarisataka]

21. Congress may as well adjourn until after the midterms

The GOP members have neutered themselves. They may not have passed an Enabling Act but it is clear they are going to let Trump rule by fiat.

[Aussie105]

23. George Orwell would be proud of the doubletalk happening today.

Not really a war as such, people aren't really being killed, things really aren't being bombed and blown up.

The dead are crisis actors who go home when the cameras are off, the buildings in rubble is just CGI.

George Orwell smiles!
The double talk is just his style.

It's operation 'slightly angry', not Epic fury.
Made for the evening news for US MAGA propaganda believer consumption.

Other sane media sources like Al Jazeera, BBC (UK), DW seem to think it's an undeclared war.
Trump and Johnson need a stiff word with them to get them to see things more clearly.

The question no one, not even George Orwell, asked directly:

Who benefits?

[BootinUp]

24. Mike's middle name is "Hubris". nt

[Ford_Prefect]

25. Mike has no soul since he sold it to Vlad and Donald.

[Ferrets are Cool]

26. So? Kegsbreath and the Pedo in Chief are lying to us? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, tell me it's not true.

[LudwigPastorius]

28. "...a very specific, clear mission..."

Do tell, Mikey...cause nobody else knows what that could be.

[BigmanPigman]

30. We're at "conflict", not "war". Didn't you know?

[Aussie105]

31. Anyone remember who the explainers and apologists were for Bush

when he sent boots on the ground to Iraq to find WMDs that didn't exist?

It was only some 20 years ago.

[BidenRocks]

32. It's just a flesh wound!

Ignoring the obvious or trying to sell us a load of crap?
We're not buying!

[Ol Janx Spirit]

33. To be fair: he hasn't watched the news and really doesn't know what the President did....

I'm sure he will update his position once he's had a chance to get his opinion from the Administration and his pastor.

Besides, what part of "very specific, clear mission and operation" do we not understand?

I mean, "specific" can mean a lot of things. It is not a word that indicates any sort of precision--come on now.

"Clear" can mean almost anything as well. It's just a matter of perspective--and squinting. Don't forget the squinting.

So, if you squint, you can see clearly that we specifically attacked Iran because Iran was going to attack us because Israel was going to attack them because they were a week away from having a nuclear weapon in a year that could be launched from a missile that doesn't exist and has not been tested tomorrow and hit the United States with Shariah law and undermine the Christian Nationalist fever dreams of millions of Americans that claim to follow Jesus but cheer on cruelty to the very people Jesus would be trying to protect while worshiping a cruel, lying, cheating, grifting, pedophile who has 34 felonies and has been convicted of sexual abuse in a court of law.

See? It all makes sense....

[MissHoneychurch]

34. He has actually an opinion on that?

Guess, he can't answer with his typical "First I have heard of that. I need to look into it ... yaddayaddayadda "

What a spineless little man.

[retread]

35. So when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor it was "a very specific, clear mission and operation," not an

act of war???

[Attilatheblond]

36. Give him a break. From his perspective and position, all he could see is polyps

and crap