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President Trump authorized military force against Iran Saturday night, and he is calling the the attacks a “historic moment” for the world.
The U.S. struck three Iranian nuclear facilities in those bombings, and there has since been Iranian retaliation at an American military base in neighboring Qatar.
Upper Peninsula Congressman Jack Bergman said on Sunday that Trump gave Iran chances to get back to the negotiating table.
“They chose not to,” said Bergman (R-Watersneet) told RRN News. “Instead, they chose to continue to do what they’re doing outside of international inspectors’ eyes to enrich uranium to the point of one singular goal: having a nuclear bomb.”n
Bergman says it’s our responsibility to stop Iran from being a sponsor of terrorism.
“We’re not going to let Iran continue to be that behind-the-scemes supporter of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, random terror cells,” Bergman said. “Because I’m the (House) subcommittee chairman on readiness, I have already scheduled a briefing for (Monday) in a classified nature so that I can see at a different level what the cause-and-effect and what the future threat is here in the United States.”And it’s that possibility, Bergman says, that is a big reason why these attacks were necessary, and why he supports Trump’s move “fully”.
“We’ve got to keep our citizens safe and secure, and one of the ways you do that is to make sure countries like Iran can’t launch any types of attacks on us,” Bergman said. “Whether it be with a nuclear weapon, whether it be inside our own borders with sleeper cells.”
Bergman says he has concerns about targets here in the Upper Peninsula, so he is going to Sault Ste. Marie to meet with the Border Patrol and Soo Locks next Saturday. His visit for the Army Corps of Engineers annual Engineers Day was already planned, but these events have given a different dimension to that trip.
“We have to look at, in the First District, where those points of friction could be, where Iranian groups, and sub-groups could do a minor attack (on the Soo Locks), but it would be a major attack for us because it’s in our arera,” Bergman said. “The Mackinac Bridge, it goes without saying.”
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries says President Trump has broken a promise he made to stay out of foreign wars. The New York Democrat criticized Trump’s decision to launch an attack on Iran without first getting the approval of Congress. Jeffries said the move goes against the Constitution. But Bergman says that kind of opposition only emboldens the Iranians by suggesting the American people are divided.
“Well, Japan didn’t have the authority to bomb Pearl Harbor either,” he said. “Thanks to my Democrat colleagues for walking away the needs of their constituents from a safety and security standpoint. The Iranians don’t have a plan other than to B.S, the world about what their true intentions are. Listen to the rhetoric for the past 45 years: Death to America, Kill the Infidel.”
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