Trump’s bold move in Iran outs Democrats as spineless hypocrites

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Trump’s bold move in Iran outs Democrats as spineless hypocrites

Strikes on Iran were no different from what past presidents of both parties have done

A hilarious thing happened in Washington last weekend: President Trump did something and the Democrats absolutely hated it.

It was hilarious for several reasons, not least of which was the simple fact that the Democrats hate anything Mr. Trump does. If he were to demand that Roe v. Wade be reinstated and then invite 10 million foreigners to simply walk across the U.S. border, Democrats would find some reason to hate it.

As you may have heard, America on Saturday bombed Iran back into the Stone Age (well, at least back to the time when the violent terrorist state wasn’t getting close to building a nuclear weapon). In days past, the daily discourse wasn’t so hideously partisan — because, as they used to say, politics stops at the water’s edge — but today, every politician is trying to score points on everything without a care as to whether it’s bad for America.

It didn’t take long for Democrats to condemn Mr. Trump for taking action against a rogue nation that has been threatening America for 46 years and funding terrorist operations across the Middle East, including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. Everyone who spoke up (we did note that Democrats in states Mr. Trump won in November were oddly silent) either called for his impeachment or declared that his action was unconstitutional because he did not seek approval from Congress.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York — who Democrats say is the de facto leader of the party, according to one poll — was able to jam them both into one whiny post on social media. “The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers,” she wrote shortly after the president wiped out Iran’s nuclear facilities. “He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

Democrats tried to impeach Mr. Trump — again — on Tuesday but failed miserably. The final vote was 344-79 on a motion to kill the resolution, with 128 Democrats joining all 216 Republicans. So much for that idea.

Still, party leaders and top lawmakers continue to say Mr. Trump violated the Constitution when he blasted Iran. “Trump said he would end wars; now he has dragged America into one,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen said in a statement. “His actions are a clear violation of our Constitution — ignoring the requirement that only the Congress has the authority to declare war.”


 
But that’s not at all what they said when a Democratic president unilaterally decided to drop some bombs on a foe or otherwise mix it up without congressional authority. For instance, in 2011, President Obama attacked Libya without said approval. The president and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said they didn’t need congressional authorization for the military intervention.

Mr. Obama later said U.S. leadership of the intervention had been transferred to NATO and called U.S. involvement “limited.” But at that very time, the U.S. was conducting 75% of all aerial refueling sorties, supplying 70% of the operation’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and contributing 24% of the total aircraft used in the operation.

President George W. Bush got blasted after he took military action after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against America, and President Clinton was ripped when he used his presidential war powers in the former Yugoslavia, as well as Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Haiti.

Sen. Tim Kaine, Virginia Democrat, was one of the most vocal critics of Mr. Trump’s bombing. He declared he would put forward a resolution seeking to bar Mr. Trump from taking further military action in Iran without congressional approval.

Ironically, it was Mr. Kaine who drafted legislation in 2018 that would, in the words of legal scholar Jonathan Turley, “put the authorization for use of military force on virtual autopilot.” Mr. Turley testified before Congress that the legislation was a virtual authorization for “endless war.”

Another legal scholar, Alan Dershowitz, argued that the latest hubbub over presidential war powers is purely partisan. “What President Trump did is not different in kind or degree from what previous presidents — both Democrats and Republicans — have done without congressional authorization,” he wrote.
 
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