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MASSIE: This is not Constitutional
X ^ | June 21 | Rep. Thomas Massie

Posted on 06/21/2025 5:52:16 PM PDT by RandFan

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To: RandFan

Ridiculous.

I’m shocked we actually had the fortitude to actually do it. We have a long history of using treaties and the constitution as a suicide pact .

Iran getting the bomb could not be allowed to happen. This is a fact not in dispute.

As CIC, he had the authority. Now Congress is going to horn in like some slack jawed district judge.


41 posted on 06/21/2025 6:05:01 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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To: RandFan

Tell it to Sweeney


42 posted on 06/21/2025 6:05:08 PM PDT by Chengdu54 (This is a time for which the 2nd Amendment was intended. )
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To: RandFan

“I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you”

Genesis 12:3


43 posted on 06/21/2025 6:05:33 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: RandFan

“ Obama doing it ...”

Obama wouldn’t do it.
He would send them money.
There is a time and place to confront evil.


44 posted on 06/21/2025 6:05:36 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don’t really care, Margaret.”)
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To: RandFan
“The president has the power to initiate hostilities without consulting Congress.”

Ever since the Korean War, Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution – which refers to the president as the “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States” – has been interpreted this way.

https://libertyclassroom.com/warpowers/

45 posted on 06/21/2025 6:06:05 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Kazan
What Trump did doesn't qualify as going to war.

The Islamic Republic of Iran declared War on the "Big Satan" decades ago.

46 posted on 06/21/2025 6:06:34 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: RandFan

“Some would go berserk if this was Obama doing it ..”

Except Obama didn’t do it. Instead he freed up billions of dollars in frozen funds for his Mullah best buddies in Tehran. All the better to foment revolutionary Islam outside of Iran’s borders.

Now it appears that the Mullah Fan Club has another wing of useful idiots, this time wrapping themselves in the sacred texts of Saint Ayn Rand.


47 posted on 06/21/2025 6:06:35 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: RandFan

There’s always the War Powers Act. Try it.


48 posted on 06/21/2025 6:06:57 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: GreyFriar

You got it in two.


49 posted on 06/21/2025 6:07:18 PM PDT by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: RandFan

But it makes Bolton, John McCain, Tel Aviv, AIPAC and Lindsey Graham super happy.


50 posted on 06/21/2025 6:07:34 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: EnderWiggin1970; RandFan

As the late Joe Sobran liked to point out, the Constitution poses no threat whatsoever to our current form of government.


51 posted on 06/21/2025 6:07:55 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: af_vet_1981

AGREED


52 posted on 06/21/2025 6:08:07 PM PDT by Muhammy
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To: GreyFriar
The mullah’s declared war on the USA when it invaded our Tehran embassy and held our diplomats for 444 days. We’ve ignored this for 16,000 + days.

Uh -- whut?

Mohammad Mosaddegh and the 1953 Coup in Iran

53 posted on 06/21/2025 6:08:18 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: RandFan

Its not unconstitutional. 🙄


54 posted on 06/21/2025 6:08:26 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: RandFan

[[Some would go berserk if this was Obama doing it ...]]

Nah- we’da celebrated Iran getting knocked on their collective rumps- However, Obama did NOT bomb them- he let them have $80 BILLION DOLLARS as a present to use toward their nuclear bomb enterpise and for terrorism- THAT is what peopel were pissed abotu when it comes to obama aND ILK


55 posted on 06/21/2025 6:08:35 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: RandFan

Maybe we can start deleting Iran centric executive orders dating back to Carter now

/s


56 posted on 06/21/2025 6:08:36 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: RandFan
Actually, it is constitutional.
57 posted on 06/21/2025 6:08:37 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: SkyDancer

I know one of the men who was on the rescue mission. I’m sure he’s cheering heartily tonight.


58 posted on 06/21/2025 6:08:43 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Right, only President Trump could do it this way.


59 posted on 06/21/2025 6:09:15 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO O.THER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Codeflier

President Trump is America First. The clowns here are Iran First which is infuriating given Iran attack the USA on November 4, 1979. I wish JimRob would zot all of them rather than give them space for their pro-Iranian propaganda.


60 posted on 06/21/2025 6:09:22 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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