Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has harshly criticized President Trump’s decision to eliminate Iran’s top terror chief, Qasem Soleimani, yet he apparently had a different view when President Obama took out al-Qaeda’s Abu Yahya al-Libi, a move Schumer called “bold & decisive” at the time.
Schumer didn’t like Trump’s “decisive” military strike, which took out Iran’s top terror chief, who reportedly approved of the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and was in the middle of planning more attacks on American diplomats and U.S. service members.
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.@chuckschumer, please tell the #American people what the difference is between what @realDonaldTrump did to #Soleimani and to what #Obama did to get you to praise him?
Chuck Schumer Praised Obama's 'Bold & Decisive' Strike on Terrorist https://t.co/gEIT3cPDsn
— 🇺🇸Conservative🇺🇸 (@ConservetiveOne) January 6, 2020
‘This president has made a mess of foreign policy’
Schumer said Friday on the Senate floor, “The administration did not consult in this case, and I fear that those very serious questions have not been answered and may not be fully considered. Among those questions: What was the legal basis for conducting this operation? And how far does that legal basis extend?”
Schumer warned against “endless war” on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, where he continued to bash the President.
“Let’s face it — this president has made a mess of foreign policy,” Schumer said. “North Korea, they’re much stronger than they were when he started. In Syria, he messed up. Every encounter he has with Putin, he loses. So I’m really worried, and that’s why Congress must assert itself.”
“I don’t believe the president has authority to go to war in Iraq without congressional approval,” Schumer went on, calling Trump’s foreign policy “erratic and unsuccessful thus far.”
“I’ll do everything I can to assert our authority. We don’t need this president either bumbling or impulsively getting us into a major war,” he added. “The reason the Founding Fathers said Congress had to okay it is because it’s a check on a president who’s doing so many wrong things.”
But Schumer had a different attitude about American presidents and war just a few years ago.
‘Bold & Decisive’
In 2012, President Barack Obama ordered fa U.S. drone strike that killed senior al-Qaeda figure Abu Yahya al-Libi.
Schumer tweeted, “Killing of Abu Yahya al-Libi is a huge blow to al Qaeda & evidence that President Obama’s bold & decisive drone strike policy is working.”
Killing of Abu Yahya al-Libi is a huge blow to al Qaeda & evidence that President Obama’s bold & decisive drone strike policy is working
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 5, 2012
Needless to say, a number of Twitter commenters mocked Schumer’s hypocrisy.
“Chuck. What’s the difference,” one asked. “So blatantly biased.”
“Bold and decisive, you don’t say? @realDonaldTrump,” another wrote.
“What happened, Chuck?” asked one commenter.
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As BBC reported of Obama’s strike in 2012, “The White House says Libi’s death deals a heavy blow to al-Qaeda’s operations as he played a critical role in the group’s planning against the West. ‘There is no-one who even comes close in terms of replacing the expertise al-Qaeda has just lost,’ one US official said.”
The official salso said that al-Qaeda’s leadership “will be hard-pressed to find any one person who can readily step into [Libi’s] shoes.”
Yet now, Schumer believes the President did the wrong thing.
Isn’t funny how Democrats determine right and wrong merely by who sits in the White House?