Posted on 06/22/2025 2:25:42 PM PDT by Rummyfan
After last night's strikes on Iran, Democrat politicians reached screeching levels of hypocrisy over Donald Trump's decision to act rather than wait for an Iranian nuclear weapon deployment. Chuck Schumer demanded action from Congress, as did Hakeem Jeffries. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez led calls for impeachment. Practically every Democrat on Capitol Hill -- with the notable exception of John Fetterman -- rushed to promote their "authoritarian" narrative about Trump.
All of this venting reveals very short memories on the port side of Capitol Hill. Fourteen years ago, they couldn't get enough of presidential strikes on a nation in the very same region. Remember Hillary Clinton's chortling over the fall of Moammar Qaddafi and the role she and Barack Obama played in it? "We came, we saw, he died," she raved to Leslie Stahl after a joint US-EU bombing campaign decapitated Qaddafi's regime, and left a failed state in its wake...
In March 2011, Obama ordered a series of military strikes on regime targets in Libya, not because of a clear and present danger to US security or assets, but because of a "responsibility to protect" doctrine promoted by Samantha Power. The Qaddafi regime was brutally suppressing dissent at the time, as Qaddafi had done for decades, but Qaddafi had also cooperated with the West on nuclear non-proliferation. Nevertheless, Obama and the Left wanted Qaddafi gone, and without going to Congress conducted military attacks with the express purpose of collapsing his regime in favor of the rebels in and around Benghazi -- a bitter irony, in the end.
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Sorry, one more thing: The fact that the Democrats love exercising unconstitutional power and are hypocrites about it to boot means exactly what?
Either the Constitution is in force and we support it or it is obsolete and we should disregard it.
What “Obama” did, or Clinton did, is beside the point.
What exactly does basing US military personnel outside of the UnitedStates have to do with violating the War Powers Act as you imply ?
The war powers act is, to me, so obviously unconstitutional that I don’t include it in my comments on this subject.
Sending a force of the size and scope that MACV turned into simply illustrates the point that going to war without Congress being fully committed leads to defeat. And, of course, is also unconstitutional.
But your post implies that basing US military forces outside the US is somehow violative of US law/Constitution ?
However, since the Left seems to be using the WPA against the President, since he is not one of them, then it would seem his actions are no violative of it.
The War Powers Act, officially known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973, is a federal law that limits the U.S. president's ability to engage military forces without congressional approval. It requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of military action and restricts military engagement to 60 days without a formal declaration of war from Congress.
The entire ‘Arab Spring’ all across the region was a CIA operation, concocted by Obama and Hillary. It was a total fiasco. Got rid of stabilizing leaders in the region only to have them replaced with more radical and more dangerous ones. That gave rise to ISIS and all the other whackos being controlled and financed by Iran...........
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