Biden Blasted For Resuming Iraq War, Minimum Wage War At Home On Hold

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Wage war: Biden blasted for picking a fight in Syria, letting minimum wage slide at home

26 Feb, 2021


 
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Progressives are feeling shafted by Joe Biden, after the president shied away from fighting the Senate for a minimum wage hike, but launched missiles at Syria.

 

The Democrats' proposed $15 national minimum wage increase cannot be included in President Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 stimulus bill, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled on Thursday. The Pentagon said that the attack was launched at 6 pm eastern time on Biden's order, and resulted in the destruction of "multiple facilities" believed to be run by Iranian-backed militias in eastern Syria. The Pentagon spun the assault as a "defensive precision strike," saying it was in retaliation to rocket attacks on the US and coalition troops in Iraq.

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During his election campaign, Biden many times said that he stood against the "Iraq war", the moment it started. But facts are saying something else.

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However, it appears not everybody bought that narrative. People online were quick to remind Biden and his staffers of previous statements denouncing such incursions as dangerous escalations that encroach on Syrian sovereignty. Online sleuths dug up a tweet by Biden's current spokesperson Jen Psaki, denouncing the Trump administration's missile strike on Syria in April 2017 as illegal. "Also what is the legal authority for strikes? Assad is a brutal dictator. But Syria is a sovereign country,"

Wage war: Biden blasted for picking a fight in Syria, letting minimum wage slide at home — RT USA News
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