Rep. Scholten and Senator Slotkin refuse to condemn the US bombing of Iran

The US bombed Iran last night in a cruel act of aggression. Yes, the Trump Administration bombed Iran without Congressional approval, but most members of Congress have refused to condemn the bombing, like Rep. Scholten and Senator Slotkin.

Around midnight of last night, Rep. Hillary Scholten posted these comments on her Facebook page:

Iran must never be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons. 

As the president takes action without congressional approval, my thoughts are with our troops. The American people deserve a voice—through Congress—before our troops are sent to serve in another endless war.

Rep. Scholten leads with an ideological comments that Iran can never obtain nuclear weapons. What arrogance! Scholten is reflecting a standard US imperialistic narrative that certain countries cannot have nuclear weapons, but the US and a few other imperialist nation can possess nuclear weapons. What is glaringly omitted from Scholten’s comments is that she fails to mention that the US is the only country that has used nuclear weapons, weapons that were dropped on civilian populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.

In addition, Scholten’s demand that Iran never be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons is taken from the AIPAC playbook, which you can read in the AIPAC statement in support of the Trump Administration’s bombing of Iran. This makes complete sense, since Rep. Scholten has been loyal to Israel and AIPAC, ever since she first took an AIPAC paid-for trip in the summer of 2023. 

Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin also released a statement after the Trump Administration bombed Iran, stating:

I expect a full, classified brief on the strikes in Iran, and the strategy and force protection plans, as soon as possible.  

In the meantime, tonight I’m focused on the safety of the over 40,000 U.S. forces in the Middle East, and their loved ones back home, concerned about retaliation and what comes next.

While it’s too early to know the results, a successful strike by our capable military wasn’t the primary question. 

The real question is: what happens the day after? A strike can have major repercussions for safety and stability across the region. As someone who served in Iraq and saw up close the loss of blood and treasure over 20 years, I don’t want to be embroiled in another drawn out conflict, and neither do the American people.

This is exactly why our founders built a role for Congress on issues of war and peace — to ensure questions of real consequence are answered before American men and women are engaged in war.

There is not one single word of condemnation in Senator Slotkin’s statement. Like Rep. Scholten, she focuses on the safety of US military personnel, to the exclusion of the Iranians who were killed in the US military bombing of Iran. 

Senator Slotkin also wants us to think that just because she was in the US military in Iraq that she some how doesn’t want the US to be “embroiled in another drawn out conflict.” The US was not embroiled in a conflict in Iraq, the US bombed the shit out of Iraq and engaged in a military occupation of that country for years, resulting in over a million dead Iraqis. 

Rep. Scholten and Senator Slotkin are not only cowards, they are complicit in the US bombing of Iran, just as they have both been complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinians.