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 Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, accused President Trump's administration of pursuing war with Iran as tensions mounted in the Middle East and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed the rogue nation for an assault on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.
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 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she's "very concerned about a slide towards war with Iran" and highlighted that President Donald Trump "has to come to Congress" for authorization before taking military action against Iran. Pointing to this week's attacks on tankers in the Gulf of Oman, the Republican president told Fox News on Friday that "Iran did do it." But Warren, the two-term progressive senator from Massachusetts who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is skeptical.
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 Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas slammed former top Obama adviser Ben Rhodes for questioning U.S. claims that Iran attacked oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz and downplayed the threat from the regime.
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 Handout via ReutersPARIS—Who was it who blasted two tankers in the Persian Gulf on Thursday? Whodunit?
The Trump administration says it must have been the Iranians. Trump told Fox & Friends on Friday the attack has "got Iran written all over it." And Iran says it must have been somebody else. And because both sides have such long records of deceit and, really, no regard for the truth, we the public and the press find ourselves sliding toward war with no firm grip on the facts.
Gosh, that feels familiar: a plunge into "unknown unknowns." But the information situation is much worse today than when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld uttered that delphic phrase amid the vanguard of lies that preceded the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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