Nearly all congressional Democrats opposed the U.S. military operation against Iran.By Dinah Bucholz, Jewish Breaking NewsDemocrats and Republicans on the Hill reacted much along party lines to the Iran strikes, with very few dissenters.Republicans praised the strikes, listing Iran’s crimes and citing the threats they pose to the region, the United States and beyond.Senate Majority Leader John Thune said that Iran’s threats “posed a clear and unacceptable threat to U.S. service members, citizens in the region, and many of our allies,” and credited Trump for “taking action to thwart these threats.”Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has been one of the most vocal Republican leaders supporting strikes on Iran since the crackdown on protesters in Iran began in early January.He had expressed confidence that President Donald Trump would keep his word to the Iranian people and retaliate against the regime for initiating what critics of Iran have described as the most brutal crackdown in history, and he has been proven right.Graham said that the operation had “been well-planned” and crowed that “the murderous ayatollah’s regime in Iran will soon be no more. The biggest change in the Middle East in a thousand years is upon us.”The “butcher’s bill has finally come due for the ayatollahs,” said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), listing the crimes of the Iranian authoritarian regime.Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said, “President Trump understood what the weak could not bring themselves to say: that peace is not found in appeasement — it is won.”Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), known for their isolationist stance, opposed the U.S. military operation against Iran.Massie said, “I am opposed to this war.” He said that it was unlawful for the president to engage in a war without congressional approval and that he would work with Democrats to thwart it.Paul concurred, citing James Madison on war powers and saying that the power to authorize war lies with Congress, not with the president alone.Nearly all congressional Democrats opposed the U.S. military operation against Iran.House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) criticized Trump for the strikes, demanded a clear explanation and said the operation “has left American troops vulnerable to Iran’s retaliatory actions.”Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) decried the strikes as unnecessary, calling them “a war of choice with no strategic endgame.” Referring to past conflicts in the Middle East, he said that such a conflict “almost never ends well.”Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) criticized Trump for using unauthorized powers to call for the strikes, saying that Trump had apparently not learned the lessons from past conflicts in the region.He called for the Senate to “immediately return to session” to vote on a war powers resolution. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) agreed, saying much the same thing, with Gallego adding, “I lost friends in Iraq to an illegal war” and warning of the consequences to the young service members who would pay the ultimate price.Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) represented a dissenting voice in the Democratic Party, praising Trump for being “willing to do what’s right and necessary to produce real peace in the region.”The post Hill erupts over Iran strikes: Cheers, jeers and a few lone voices appeared first on World Israel News.