‘Serious moment’: Most Republicans support strike as Dems demand answers<\/a><\/p>\nIndiana Republican Congressman Marlin Stutzman spoke on CNN Saturday in support of the attacks.<\/p>\n
“This is the moment that really needed to happen for a long time, and, you know, I think that the Trump administration is making the right call, of course, with the joint operation with Israel is one that we know has a great chance of being very successful,” Rep. Stutzman said.<\/p>\n
Democrats are demanding answers and calling for lawmakers to return to Washington, D.C. to vote on resolutions that would check President Trump’s power to wage war.<\/p>\n
“Iran has had a terrible regime, and they’ve been suppressing and oppressing their own people,” Illinois U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth said. “That said, President Trump is not living up to the promises he made to Americans. We were not under imminent attack when he launched his attack on Iran. He did not consult with Congress. And, he certainly did not adhere to his promises to American people of getting us out of forever wars.”<\/p>\n
Senator Duckworth says she’s going back to D.C. Saturday night and was told the administration will brief the Senate as early as Monday. She agrees Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear program, but says only Congress has the power to declare war.<\/p>\n
Illinois U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, calling the president’s conduct “rash and unpredictable,” saying in part, “A war in Iran with the goal of regime change could be another long-term military commitment with deadly consequences for thousands of American troops.”<\/p>\n
While the Trump administration has said civilians are not being targeted in the strikes, the Iranian news agency is reporting a girls elementary school was among those hit, killing at least 85 students. It is images like those, and history itself, that lead some to fear that Iran, already described as the world’s primary state sponsor of terrorism, could retaliate directly against the United States.<\/p>\n
“There are reports from our own, leaked by the FBI, that there already sleeper cells of the Iranians inside the United States,” Pape said. “Maybe that’s not true, we don’t know.”<\/p>\n
Federal officials and local police here in Chicago are saying so far there is no actionable intelligence to indicate an immediate threat. But, there is a heightened state of alert.<\/p>\n
ABC News contributed to this report.<\/p>\n
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