We now have a glimpse of the War Powers Resolution promised by Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va.), which is reportedly scheduled for a vote in the Senate on Tuesday. The resolution purportedly ends all combat operations against Iran … until you reach the very end where there is a hole that you could drive a combat task force through.
I respect members asserting their inherent constitutional authority. I have long criticized the lack of declarations of war as demanded by the Framers. We have not had a formal declaration of war since World War II. However, courts and Congress have long deferred to presidents in the conduct of such operations.
I represented congressional members challenging the Libyan war operation launched by President Barack Obama. Most Democratic members were entirely silent when Obama (and President Joe Biden) exercised such authority against different countries. Notably, the Libyan operation clearly sought regime change without an imminent threat to the United States. Some of those members are now the loudest condemning President Donald Trump in this operation.
This resolution shows how presidents can easily box in Congress once combat operations begin.
The resolution boldly declares “Congress hereby directs the President to terminate the use of United States Armed Forces for hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran or any part of its government or military.”
However, at the very end, the resolution has this line: “Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the United States from defending itself from imminent attack.”
As I wrote this week, the problem with such resolutions is that they are effectively meaningless in the context of full combat operations against a nation: “Kaine and others insist that hostilities were not imminent when we attacked. Even if that were true, they are now.”
In these circumstances, it would be nearly impossible to limit the war powers of the President without putting American personnel or allies at risk. After decapitating the leadership in Iran, Iranian assets are clearly operating under prior orders in a decentralized structure. The United States is now seeking to neutralize any assets that it can find in preemptive attacks while trying further to degrade the command structure and military capacity of the Iranian government.
As I wrote earlier:
“The choice now for Democrats is either a senseless or suicidal resolution. It can either resolve to end hostilities as soon as practically possible (an objective already stated by the Administration) or it can actually seek to limit the Administration’s options amid full-fledged war.”
This is the senseless option. All threats from Iran are now “imminent,” and all attacks are arguably preemptive. So what does this actually do?
Here is the resolution: Iran War Powers Resolution
Iran is finished.
No power on earth can outlast or defeat the United States in an all out military engagement, let alone a tiny, primitive, leaderless, impoverished, backward, small town without electricity, fuel, phone or satellite and internet service. They cannot resupply. Their navy is gone and we have complete control of their air space. Now, we will target practice, (we will shoot fish in a barrel.)
Iran is finished. Buy stock now. Less than 20 years ago the DJIA closed at 8847.56 Today, it closed at 48,000 a 5 fold increase. $100,000 invested in the Dow industrials then = a half million today.
No power can defeat the United States.
HELIOS installed on the USS Preble, disables or destroys drones. It demonstrated the capability to destroy multiple drones in 2024.
HELIOS Installed on the USS Preble can disable or destroy drones. It demonstrated the capability to destroy multiple drones in 2024.
Tim Kaine? Bark? Bite? I like the Kaine-Dog analogy. Appropriate for a mutt like him.
Sorry for insulting dogs tho, I’m a cat-person.
Using the dog analogy, Kaine is an ankle yapper. Annoying but ineffective. A quick shake of the leg usually sends the yapper on his way.
Kaine’s commie screech more than a bark I would say. Sorry timmy, commie time is over.
You are at the bottom of the pile, start clawing.
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I believe Friendly Fire brought these Jets down as much as I believe wmd in Iraq. Every justification for this war is just a replay of 23 years ago when we invaded Iraq and every other field War this country has started in the last 50 or 60 or 70 years.
All wars are Bankers Wars, smedley Butler.
The only heroes of War are the counter to refuse to fight.
Don’t you just know that many Democrats are hoping for American failure and lost lives in the conflict with Iran.
They and our media.
Young: I agree.
Yesterday, the morning and evening legacy MSM (that I watch during meals) BOTH started with “breaking news” that three U.S. jets were downed by “friendly fire.” The immediate implication was clear (that somehow U.S. forces had screwed up). On both initial broadcasts (as well as several media news online) -it was not until the second or third sentence that they revealed it was Kuwaiti forces that took them down. I believe that was intentional, and plays as example for your comment.
Lin: That is a good example of how the media and many politicians try to taint a story.
I was initially surprised that 3 F-15 jets went down since they are remarkably enduring in combat but it made sense that it could happen in a friendly environment when there is mistaken identity. Thankfully the pilots survived.
I am surprised that there have not been a lot more instances like this since they are, or have been, fairly common in war. General Bradley’s “A Soldier’s Story” mentions some if I remember correctly.
So far the exercise is going like a precision Swiss watch suggesting monumental intellectual planning by some very smart people and executed by many very smart people. I could not be more proud of our President, his administration, our military and our country.
While Iranians celebrate around the world, even in Tehran, our media and Democrats openly predict and hope for failure, and I have exhausted my supply of contempt for them. They are well beneath it.
It is near certain they were traveling at very low speed (relatively) at the time – which both made it easier to confuse them with drones and easier to hit them,
and near impossible for the pilot to evade.
Yes, basically approaching for landing.
I am reminded of an old book series I read when still in school, called “Foreign Affairs.” While just now looking for them on the Internet, I came across a neat little summary of Iran. Good to look at it for those of you too young to remember the OLD Iran.
https://www.businessinsider.com/iran-before-the-revolution-in-photos-2015-4?op=1
(Another aside, I was still in school when Iran still had Shah Reza Pahlavi. A close relative of mine was a “stewardess” on the private charter plane that brought him to the U.S. for medical treatment. She said he was very gentlemanly and gave her a $100 tip
(a pretty big tip in today’s exchange).
Really – I don’t want to hear it from these lying ****ers. They know full well what they are saying and doing. The modern left is on a Soros-backed mission to make us a globalist, communist, country, and that’s it. All there is to it. They can go to hell. If we are the last bastion of freedom on this earth in isolation, at least we held the line as a bastion of freedom.
The modern left are at this point impossible for grown adults to take seriously. Cracks me up that Clinton’s Lewinsky scandal was on every channel for the hearings at the time – we KNOW he did it – but the modern media deals in speculation, hearsay, and lies, and you know, Trump may have f**ted once over the course of his lifetime (‘I did, but I didn’t inhale.’, – Bill Clinton).
Dems would not win elections in 2026 if they weren’t allowed to cheat, period. It’s gone far enough, and any brain-dead person still ‘voting blue, no matter who’, is that is spades. Wake up, and then, realizing you are an out of touch minority, grow up.
What a pathetic human being. A liar, a hypocrite, and a disgrace to the once proud state if Virginia. My state is vying to join CA, NY, IL as among the worst run states in the Country
@AlanK: Slow down – and the common names in Foggy bottom for these states are:
CA – California 1.0
CO – California 2.0
NY – California 3.0
VA – California 4.0
IL – Who gives a sh**? – The Oligarchy State that calls itself “for the people” since Joe stuffed the ballot boxes for his son JFK
Besides, you Virginians should be quite proud of the Socialist Liar you elected for governor with a 16% margin – and her expungement from the CIA when she was part of the Deep State trying to turn it into the US Gestapo – despite it’s original charter which monitoring inside the US Boundaries and American citizens was prohibited. Not to mention the great pride you should take in the 54% vote for your Chief Law Enforcement officer (AG) who has promoted the use of murdering an opponents children in front of their mother to invoke fear and obedience.
“Kaine and others insist that hostilities were not imminent when we attacked.”
Iran’s hostilities have been “imminent,” and ongoing, since 1979. The only important question is: What took us so long?
It seems to me the War Powers Act is unconstitutional as it redefines Presidential requirements and expand Congressional authorities not included in the Constitution. I would appreciate your observations on this Professor Turley. Thanks
So Nancy P agrees. Obama can bomb anytime he wants.
Sorry libs, she’s in charge.
More stupid from dustoff.
Facts just drive you crazy…. HAHAHAHA
PT, editors, please post a video link of President Clinton’s impeachment trial in full, Rehnquist presiding. Professor Turley references it in today’s article. It cannot be found?
Thank you
Cannot find full video of Clinton impeachment trial 1999, Justice Renquist presiding.
Wondering how they’ll reorganize the government.
Carpe diem
Breaking news: Kashyip Patel fired numerous FBI investigators and analysts who were involved with Donald Trump’s criminal investigation for stealing classified documents. Those FBI employees also happen to have the most extensive knowledge and experience about Iran, counterintelligence and its capabilities. These firings happened right before Trump took his marching orders from Netanyahu to start the bombing. So, getting revenge against FBI employees for carrying out their assignments was more important than the loss of their intelligence expertise in Iran and their knowledge of counterintelligence. Priorities— Trump’s ego always comes first and always will.
ATS
This is a very bizarre claim. No one in the FBI was fired for being part of an investigation that Trump did not like.
They were fired for misconduct. Agents were recently fired for conducting illegal surveilance of congressmen.
Most FBI Agents have law degrees. They are expected not to act illegally.
To my knowledge all the people fired related to the MAL raid were DC 7th floor people – the Agents actually involved in the investigation were constantly telling SC and DOJ there is no case
Next the intelligence gathering and Criminal investigative portions of the FBI are ENTIRELY disconnected from each other.
No one who would have any knowledge useful regarding Iran would be part of the MAL investigation – that is an absurdly stupid claim.
Separately you seem to be positing that there was some intelligence or counter intelligence failure – yet the facts show the OPPOSITE.
US Intelligence determined that Kahmani and large portions of his top government were going to meet in a location that was a soft target.
We provided that information to Israel who decided to hit them Ahead of schedule to take advantage of this unexpected oportunity.
The US decided that Israel taking out the top Iranian leadership would result in mass retaliation – against Israel and everyone in the Mideast including the US, and We decided to go in concurrently with the Israeli’s rather than sit back and take the first salvo of Iranian misslse before retaliating.
You can disagree with the decisions – but that is what the decisions were.
Regardless painting an intelligence success as a failure is just stupid.
John Say,
“No one in the FBI was fired for being part of an investigation that Trump did not like.”
BS. Trump fired FBI agents who were involved in any case that regarding MAL and the alleged Russia hoax claim. Everyone saw it happen and Trump’s DOJ directly fired them for that.
“They were fired for misconduct. Agents were recently fired for conducting illegal surveilance of congressmen.
Most FBI Agents have law degrees. They are expected not to act illegally.”
More BS. None of the surveillance was illegal. It was approved by a federal judge and it has never been ruled illegal.
“Agents actually involved in the investigation were constantly telling SC and DOJ there is no case”
Again, no. Only two lower ranke agents were voicing concern about the case. Which again, was approved by a federal judge. None of it has been deemed illegal or unlawful.
“US Intelligence determined that Kahmani and large portions of his top government were going to meet in a location that was a soft target.
We provided that information to Israel who decided to hit them Ahead of schedule to take advantage of this unexpected oportunity.”
Again, wrong. Israel was using Iran’s police surveillance cameras to keep track of the Ayatollah’s movements. Secretary of State Rubio let it slip yesterday that Israel was going to attack Iran and we “had to” attack to prevent a retaliation against US personnel stationed in the region. Israel finally succeeded in forcing us to do their dirty work for them. Trump, the moron, went right along. Now we are facing another Middle East quagmire curtesy of Israel. The “no war president” went to war because he was too stupid to realize he was being played, again, like everyone else has been playing him.
More crazy george… and more crazy say.
And guys, learn English grammar. And use a spell check. Not a good look.
“Trump fired FBI agents who were involved in any case that regarding MAL and the alleged Russia hoax claim. ”
Then you will be able to name the specific agents fired merely for being on the MAL or Russian Hoax case who did not ALSO
act unlawfully
You say everyone saw it ? Then you should hace no problem naming the agents fired and demonstrating that they did not engage in unlawful conduct.
” None of the surveillance was illegal. It was approved by a federal judge and it has never been ruled illegal.”
Of course it was illegal. And the federal judge who signed off was Boasberg and he has said “oops”
or more accurately something to the effect of “lots of subpeona’s come accross my desk, I do not read everyone and I was not aware that members of congress were being surveiled.
Yes surveilance of members of Congress has a significantly higher due process requirement BY THE CONSTITUTION.
US Law specifies that congressional leadership must be notified when members of congress are surveiled.
\The Surveilance was illegal. That is beyond any doubt, and boasberg should have been impeached for MANY MANY unconstitutional actions as a federal judge.
“Again, no. Only two lower ranked agents were voicing concern about the case. ”
Yes, lower ranked as in Not the DC FBI 7th floor. The head of the Miami Field office NOT a lower ranked agent refused to get a warrant without an assistant AG at DOJ signing off.
“Which again, was approved by a federal judge.”
Actually an article II Magistrate judge – nearly All warrants are signed off on by Article II magistrate judges.
“None of it has been deemed illegal or unlawful.”
Correct – because Cannon dismissed the case for other reasons BEFORE the knowledge that the FBI did not beleive the Warrant was lawful surfaced. That would be a brady violation on the part of Faux SC Jack Smith.
The warrant would have been dismissed or never granted had the information now available been provided to the courts.
A warrant is an ex parte process, that places a high burden on those seeking it to provide accurate information – not Spin.
Do you honestly think that a Federal Magistrate would EVER sign off on a Warrant when the FBI Agents involved are saying that they are able to get permission for a voluntary search whenever they wish, that the party being searched is fully cooperating,
and that there is no concern about destruction of evidence ?
And the above is just the tip of the iceberg of the problems that you idiotic claims have.
“Again, wrong. Israel was using Iran’s police surveillance cameras to keep track of the Ayatollah’s movements. ”
I am sure Israel was, The US was also using satellite as well as Drone Surveilance – and Mossad might even have had some HUMINT.
There were many sources of information that all lead to the conclusion that top Iranian Government was meeting at an unfortified location.
“Secretary of State Rubio let it slip yesterday that Israel was going to attack Iran”
No one “let it slip”, nor did we just learn that yesterday.
All Rubio made public was the OBVIOUS.
Israel was going to decapitate the Iranian regime.
The US that was already preparing to attack could either join several days ahead of schedule,
or wait a few hours for the Iranians to directly attack the US – and the entire rest of the mideast first.
This is NOT some knew revelation. It is something anyone with a braid could figure out.
We did not “have to” prevent a retaliatory attack. But it was a wise choice that likely save some lives to do so.
Regardless, this whole microparsing nonsense you are engaging is about why attacked at the precise time we attacked.
It has nothing to do with why we attacked.
“Israel finally succeeded in forcing us to do their dirty work for them. ”
False, the US also had the choice of notifying Iran that Israel would attack if they gathered.
But that was NOT going to happen.
Why ?
Because the US attacking Iran was inevitable.
You do not understand the difference between
Why ?
and
Why Now ?
“Now we are facing another Middle East quagmire curtesy of Israel. ”
Everyone is concerned this could become a mess. Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Syria and …. did not turn out well for the US.
There are excellent reasons to be concerned.
But there are also reasons to be hopeful.
Trump does not have long before this will become a millstone arround his neck.
While there are significant numbers of republicans and democrats who will be happy to F$%K over Iran – there are purportedly people who want to take out Turkey next.
What is more important is there is a small portion of Trumps base that will sit out 2026 if this is not resolved quickly.
The War Powers act gives Trump 60 days before he must get authorization from Congress to continue.
Trump does NOT have that much time, before he will significantly harm Republican prospects in 2026 and possibly 2028.
HOWEVER, this can also go incredibly well, and that will have the opposite effect.
Finally there are myriads of possibilities inbetween.
All predictions regarding how quickly this ends and how well it ends, depend on factors most of us can only guess about.
We expected the Iragis to welcome us with open arms – that did NOT happen
Gauging how the Iranian people will respond to this is of great consequence with respect to any likely outcome.
Defeating the Iranian Government and IRGC is well inside our power.
Getting a better government is more difficult to predict.
We have lessons from Iraq and Libya and ……
But Iran is NOT iraq or Libya.
“The “no war president” went to war because he was too stupid to realize he was being played, again, like everyone else has been playing him.”
Trump is so stupid that he outplays democrats all the time.
You do not seem to understand how stupid this argument makes you seem.
Absolutely Israel is ecstatic about this. Israel has their own interests, and this is very good for Israel almost no matter how it ends.
But the US has different interests.
This impacts Ukraine and Russia – this creates huge problems for Russia – NO MATTER HOW IT ENDS.
Russia depends on Iran for 40% of its munitions. If they US started withdrawling from the mideast right now – Iran would spend the next 18months building its own stockpiles, not providing weapons to Russia.
This impacts China. You rant about $100/barrel oil. The US can deal with a global price spike – we have plenty of local oil.
The big loser if the straights of Hormuz remain shut for anytime period will be China.
This is also a message to China. You can fine myriads of war games playing out a Chinese attack on Taiwan.
All assume that Chinese equipment and Chinese clones of Russian equipment work as specked.
But what we saw in Venezuela and Iran is that the US can gain air superiority – not in says, not in hours, – but INSTANTLY – anywhere we want it. An amphibious landing across the Taiwan straight is an operation more difficult that any nation has ever done.
War games that have China succeeding presume that China can gain air superiority due to large numbers of land based aircraft.
So far in this war the Only US aircraft hot down were taken down by US systems in Kuwait when the Kuwaiti’s confused F15’s slowing to land for Iranian Drones.
No Russian or Chinese system has taken out a US Aircraft of any kind yet. China can not cross the Taiwan strait without total air superiority – they will be slaughtered.
This sends a giant message to China that they are not ready to invade Taiwan.
Next – Atleast 3 Gulf nations have joined this – We have Arabs and Israelis fighting TOGETHER against Iran.
That is enormous regarding peace in the mideast.
You know this how? Source?
TousiTV on YouTube seems to be incredible. He comes on live intermittently with data not usually heard in real time. One interesting item Israel hacked the cameras at the stop lights. With that information, they were able to track leadership going and coming while learning their cycles.
Tousi is Iranian so he can translate.
I found Tousi fascinating when I stumbled upon his channel a few months ago. Watched a couple of videos. Everything he claimed turned out to be entirely, without any doubt, 100% wrong.
For entertainment purposes only.
Yesterday was the first time I saw Tousi. He gave a complete picture of what was happening in the Middle East, and it appeared to be excellent. That you find it 100% wrong is possible, but not true based on what I saw. Then again, you are known to be 100% wrong, and therefore Tousi must be 100% right.
Tousi is pretty good at getting information from inside of Iran that journalists are not getting.
BUT Tousi is an expatriot and that colors what he presents.
A HUGE issue in this conflict is where are the Iranian people.
Not what do the millions of Iranian diaspora want – they see Trump as God right now.
We went into Iraq beleiving that the Iraqi’s would support us “liberating” them from Sadam
that did NOT work as expected.
Iran is a totalitarian country of 90M people.
We have seen very large protests in the past nationwide – clearly there are MILLIONS of people unhappy with the current regime.
We have additional complexity because they are not all unhappy for the same reasons.
Iran is a repressive theocracy.
It is also badly managed economically.
It has a massive water shortage,
It has inflation that has destroyed the economy.
And likely a long list of other failures.
There are also millions of people who are a part of that totalitarian regime and have a vested interest in maintaining it.
Tousi can tell us that there are hundreds of thousands of people willing to take to the street and protest – possibly millions.
But it is impossible to trust whether those wanting an end to the regime are a few million, 30 million or 70million.
It is also impossible to know when US actions against the regime will be perceived as liberating to those inside or as a foreign invader.
And this is the trickiest part of all of this.
The US has several resolutions:
Destroy enough of the Regime that what is left makes a deal we can live with and enforce – leaving the regime in place.
Destroy enough of the regime – without alienating the Iranian people that the Regime collapses and something hopefully better from within takes its place.
Destroy enough of the regime – that Iran is left a mess like Libya or Iraq, or Syria or Lebanon.
Those are not the only options, they are just the only quick ones that can be accomplished through airpower.
Marco Rubio’s explanation of why we attacked Iran.
“Secretary Marco Rubio told CBS News’ Caitlin Huey-Burns on Monday “there absolutely was an imminent threat” posed by Iran and described the U.S.-Israeli strikes as a proactive response “in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting higher damage.”
“The imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us, and we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded,” Rubio said while speaking to reporters Monday on Capitol Hill.”
If Iran was attacked? Of course they would pose a threat if WE attacked them without provocation. WOW. How stupid does he think Americans are?
Sorry george. Nancy P says bombing is OK. She made that claim when O-dumber was bombing Libya.
Chew on that.
really? Nancy P give you a heads-up?
What are you? 12 years old.
Nancy P is what she has been called for 20+ years.
X
Why do you keep this nonsense up ?
Why do you think everyone needs a left wing nut explainer for something most of us have as much or more knowledge of than you ?
There are many reasons for doing thins.
There are reasons to not do this.
The reasons either way are NOT some secret.
Nor is microparsing explanations by Rubio and Trump and Heseth and … and looking for minor differences in emphasis meaningful.
We do NOT need you to tell us what Rubio said – when we can easily hear exactly what he said ourselves.
Nor do we need to know what Rubio said – when all the reasons pro and con are available for all of us to judge for ourselves.
First Rubio is explaining Why we attacked concurrently with Israel.
NOT Why we attacked at all.
The CIA determined that he Iranian leadership would all be meeting together unprotected on saturday morning.
We forwarded that information to Israel and they decided they were going to decapitate the Iranian govenrment.
The US then decided that we might as well attack at the same time, rather than wait a few hours for Iran to attack the US first.
That is an explanation for the timing.
It is not an explanation for the attack.
Iran was attacked because:
They continue to move towards a nuclear weapon – even after having their nuclear program severely damaged.
The continue to develop an OFFENSIVE missile program. They have threatened the entire Mideast with missile attacks.
They were moving towards being a threat to Europe and eventually the US.
They are the foundation of support for all international terrorism in the entire mideast and much of the world.
They murdered 30,000 of their own people.
They were particularly weak at the moment.
You can debate whether those reasons are sufficient.
But those are the reasons.
They are not secret.
Most of the world knows them.
We do not need you or anyone else to explain them.
“. . . attacked [Iran] without provocation.”
A theocratic dictatorship is by its nature “provocation.” Brutally oppressing its own citizens is “provocation.” Attacking and seizing international energy tankers is “provocation.” Spreading world wide terrorism (via its terrorist proxies) is “provocation.”
Care to play any other word games, in your effort to kneecap Israel and America?
“If Iran was attacked? Of course they would pose a threat if WE attacked them without provocation. WOW. How stupid does he think Americans are?”
Absolutely stupid. I’m not going to repeat what Rubio said because Xlax can look it up himself. He cannot understand anything more complex than 1+1=2.
S. Meyer: can YOU understand the $100 million Miriam Edelman gave Trump to advocate for Israel?* Can YOU understand that Netanyahu tried to pull this same crap with Obama and Obama told him to stick it? Can YOU understand that Israel would rather have our brave military men and womem bleed and die and billions of taxpayer dollars spent fighting its war, and that the United States will NOT benefit from starting a war with Israel’s enemies? In fact, can YOU understand that the stock market is already down and gas prices are already up because Iran is blocking the Straits of Hormuz? Maybe you can help ME understand why we didn’t just take measures to secure our Embassys in the Middle East and prepare for incoming at our military bases instead waging a war—IF the real reason wasn’t diversion away from the Epstein scandal, that Congress was set to vote in a few days to block Trump, and if Trump wasn’t trying to pay back UAE for buying $2 B of his worthless cryptocurrency, to pay back Saudi Arabia for bailing out Jared Kushner when he left office to the tune of $2 B, and to pay back Qatar for the flying palace, given that UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are Iran’s main rivals in the area.
* If Edelman has that kind of money to throw around, why doesn’t she use it to help those starving elderly Jewish holocaust survivors living in squalor? Why does the organization that helps them (I think it’s the Fellowship of Christians and Jews) have to beg for donations on television?
Your hate drives your emotions picturing you as a rabid dog.
“S. Meyer: can YOU understand the $100 million Miriam Edelman gave Trump to advocate for Israel?”
The American people are the most charitable in the world, and within this nation, American Jews are among the most active and generous donors. They also give a lot to political causes, but their giving extends to all, not just the ones that possess your mind. In fact, more Jews contribute more money to the left than to the right; think of Soros and Steyer, along with many others. Since 2020, Soros has given about $500 million dollars routed to his nonprofits and Super PACs, so it might appear smaller, but it affects almost every Democrat PAC you have heard of. When totalled, there are far more large donations to left-leaning candidates than to the right.
Your statements on Iran indicate that you only read slogans produced by the left and lack knowledge. Iran has killed thousands of Americans and disabled many more, while much of the Obama money given to Iran went to killings and rape all over the world. That alone would normally cause America to go to war, but Obama normalized rape and murder and accepted the words “Death to America” as bedtime poetry. Trump did what he had to do, and the only thing at issue to more sophisticated people is the timing. Iran ran the largest number of state-sponsored terrorists in the world. Hezbollah and Hamas are known to most, but Iran funds terrorists all over the world, even into the Western Hemisphere, while supplying our enemies with war materials. They supplied the Russians who invaded Ukraine.
Thank God for the entire world that Trump dismantled Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. The vast majority of the 90 million Iranians were held captive by a death cult regime. Maybe you forgot that in one day, that regime murdered 30,000 people.
You ramble from one topic to the next because your knowledge is skin deep, and you rely on rambling slogans instead of critical thinking. Is that why you changed your name from Natasha to Gigi to Anonymous?
Please stop repeating MAGA lies–According to Rubio, Iran did not have either a nuclear weapons or ICBM program, and wouldn’t have had the capacity to be a threat to us for at least 10 years. AND, Iran was never going to agree to not have conventional rockets because it has the right to defend itself against Israel and other enemies. According to Trump, last June, he “totally and completely obliterated” Iran’s nuclear processing plant—was he lying? Was Rubio lying? Please explain how or why attacking Israel’s enemies benefits the United States. You are the one who repeats made up crap about Obama. He never “normalized rape and murder” or “accepted Death to America as bedtime poetry”. Unlike your orange hero, Obama stood up to Israel and told them that if they attack Iran they’re on their own, and we’ll just defend ourselves if Iran comes after us—so who is the weakling? Note that Israel did NOT proceed with starting a war with Iran when Obama was in office, and probably would not have done so except for Trump’s weakness and the fact that he is beholden to wealthy Jews, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE. Which President is the one who takes his marching orders from Netanyahu and Saudi Arabia? Which one accepted a luxury flying palace from Qatar and $2 B to purchase his worthless cryptocurrency, and is therefore beholden to these rivals of Iran? The numbers of protesters killed has not been determined, and MAGA keeps exaggerating it, but anyway, Trump doesn’t care about freedom of speech or the right of people to protest–proven by the tear gassing and shooting of protesters in Minnesota. He has, in the past, suggested shooting protesters in the legs. You are the one who obviously lacks critical thinking. WHY did the reason for attacking Iran keep changing? Where do you get off making up names for people with whom you disagree?
As to Edelman, you still haven’t addressed why she would give $100 M to Trump but not to needy elderly Jewish Holocaust victims living in squalor. If she has that kind of cash to donate, it is literally immoral that she doesn’t use it to help these people.
Until we bombed their nuclear sites, Iran was months away from a nuclear bomb. Afterward, it was longer. The main problem was purifying the isotope, and they were too close. But they were building missiles, well over 1,000 a month, that they could use as leverage to buy time to fully develop the bomb and a delivery system. We were cutting the deadline very close, so it wasn’t if we attack Iran. It was when, with the hope, the government would be overturned. I hear you talking about genocide, but not a peep out of you when the Ayatollah murdered 30,000 people in **one** day.
Iran has been attacking Israel almost from the beginning of the ayatollah reign. Before the recent war, I said that a war would occur between Israel and Iran. I even said when, not by date but by incidents. I said Israel would mostly destroy Hamas and Hezbollah, and that was when Israel attacked Iran directly. That makes sense because it’s hard to fight Iran and its terrorists from three sides when Israel is so tiny 9-10 miles wide in its center. You are totally unfamiliar with Israel, but very familiar with erroneous leftist slogans.
Iran has seized American hostages and killed thousands of them. We are known to them as the big Satan. Israel is the little Satan. The Ayatollah hates America and all its values and culture. Its mantra is Death to America (especially gays and women who wish to be the equal of men). The Persian people are good people, and mostly want peace and the Ayatollah gone. The Jews and Iranians have had good relationships with them and will have such a relationship in the future. You don’t know, but Cyrus the Great, King of Persia, passed laws allowing the Jews to build the Second Temple, 538 BCE. You also don’t know, but today is Purim, which is from March 1-3, depending on one’s location. That is the day Haman convinced the Persian King to kill all the Jews in the world. The King’s mind was changed by Ester, and Haman was hanged. How appropriate for the timing of the war in Iran today.
“Please stop repeating MAGA lies” Will you EVER stop regurgitating Obama and Biden lies. Your paymaster Jews like Soros, Sanders, Omar and Tlaib have never spent a dime to help elderly Jewish Holocaust victims living in squalor. They have cash to donate to defend and promote Islamic terrorism – but not a dime for those elderly Jews that you cosplay you care about.
You still haven’t addressed why you attempt to defend the mass murdering butchers that were subjugating the Iranian people.
“Iran [. . .] has the right to defend itself against Israel and other enemies.”
There is no such thing as a dictatorship’s “right” to defend itself. A dictatorship is a crime family controlling an entire country.
Your and the Left’s love affair with a tyrannical government is revolting.
Cut the according to Rubio nonsense.
Virtulally no one is saying Iran was days away from a Nuke.
They might have been weeks away from a dirty bomb,
But they were not close to a nuke.
What WAS absolutely true is they were working HARD to rebuild their nuclear program.
They made it perfectly clear they did NOT get the message last summer.
Should we wait until they are on the verge of getting a nuke again ? Only now with even deeper bunkers even our B2’s can not get too ?
Iran’s behavior over the course of 50 years has made it clear:
They will engage in terrorism globally.
They will undermine the peace and stability of every single country they can
They will build IRBM’s to threaten their neighbors and ICMB’s to threaten the world.
They will build nuclear weapons to threaten their neighbors and eventually the world.
And whatever they build they use.
The only question regarding Iran is how many people will die when the world is eventually forced to deal with them.
“can YOU understand the $100 million Miriam Edelman gave Trump to advocate for Israel?”
How much did CAIR give you to defend Iran’s terrorism that was left over after they bought Ilhan Omar, Mamdani, Tlaib, Biden, Obama to let your terrorist masters run free?
Yo, Doofous, Soros gave Dems/Iran $170,000,000.00 in 2022 alone. What a total boob
wow, peoplw give money to politiicans who share their views.
There is an interview of Trump in 180 where he says that he would bomb the $hit out of Iran until they turned over the hostages.
In 2016, 2020, and 2024 Trump promised that Iran would NOT get nukes.
You cite Obama – yet the JCOPA which Iran used as a greenlight to go for nukes was Obama’s solution ?
I am not a big fan of Netanyahu, but your a fool if you think this is all about Israel.
Iran has been destabilzing the entire mideast for 50 years. They are also a major weapons supplier for Russia and they empower China globally.
Right now they are throwing grenades at EVERYONE. Startmer can not bring himself to get on board, but The entire mideast is fully engaged in defensive operations and half of the arab states are fighting WITH Israel against Iran.
Do you think Edelman bought off The Saudi’s or Qatar
Absolutely people should understand this is tricky.
We are not going to bomb Iran into Unicorn farts and rainbows.
But the Iranian regime is the weakest they have been in 50 years.
Is it not in your thinking worth contemplating the possibility of real and lasting peace in the mideast ?
All conflict in the mideast in the 21st century is tied directly to Iran. Nearly all terrorism world wide is tied to Iran.
There is zero doubt that Iran has beggared its own people to threaten not just Israel but ALL of its neighbors.
You rnt about the straights of Hormuz – but forget that they US builts its first Navy to taken on the “barbaray pirates” who were essentially the Iran of a dfifferent era foring the world to kowtow to them to or they world block trade in their region.
The mere threat to shut the straight of Hormuz is an act of War that our founding presidents built the US navy to stop. We invaded the nations of the coast of north africa until they stopped interfering with free trade.
And you are willing to risk letting a nation that is willing to destroy other nations ships for political advantage work towards getting a nuclear weapon ?
How long after Iran gets a nuke do you think it will be, before the nuclear blackmail starts ?
Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, they Saudi’s understand that this regime must be removed – but You do not ?
This is about Israel ONLY to the extent that the Israeli’s will be the first ones Nuked if Iran gets a nuclear weapon.
This is all a stupid game the left and the MSM are playing because Rubio, Hegseth, Trump and Vance are not using Exactly the same words every time to describe what we are doing and why.
They are pretending because there is more than one Why, that somehow that is a conflict, that people can not have more than one reason for doing something.
They are also pretending that there is some conflict between “why now ?” and “why ?”
Some of my previous posts on this have been a reflection of the fact that there is a fault line between a particularly flavor of MAGA – which I am sympathetic too, as it is more libertarian and the majority of Republicans over this.
I personally believe actions like this need congressional approval – but history the law and SCOTUS opinions do not agree.
I feel the same about Tariffs.
But neither of those statements means I oppose those things, just that they should not be purely executive decisions.
Trump is also gambling heavily on an outcome that I do not think he has as much control over as he beleives.
I want to beleive the odds favor an acceptable outcome – but the History of US efforts like this has been abysmal.
Success means doing far batter than any other modern president.
Succeeding here has enormous potential knock on effects – this significantly weakens Russia and China, potentially alters the midterms (or causes a wipe out),
has the potential to bring a lasting peace to the mideast.
Almost all Arab countries are now actively engaged in their own self defense.
Atleast 5 have signed on to OFFENSIVE actions against Iran – These countries are fighting against Iran and With Israel.
I would have never beleived I would have openly seen that.
Europe has followed slowly – Starmer has completely F#$Ked up – peobably pi$$ing everyone off – he initially failed to defend or even prepare to defend UK interests.
But he is slowly back tracking and British military forces are moving to the region for defensive operations – UK F35s and tornados have shot down a few drones yesterday.
And he is letting the US use Diego Garcia – NOW
France is sending a carrier to the straights of Hormuz – that is symbolically a big deal.
After a few stupid equivocal statements – much of Europe is slowly joining us – particularly after the Arab states have publicly sided against Iran.
The shooting down of a couple of F15’s made it clear – that we have established TOTAL air supremacy.
The early attacks were by F22’s and F35’s and ECM aircraft. Then F15’s – which are trucks compared to F22’s and F35’s
Then B2’s . A few days ago the B1’s showed up. and last night I heard that B52’s are om theater.
Each of these increases the destructive power unleashed. But each is beinging increasingly vulnerable aircraft that you do NOT risk until you have air superiority.
Trump is now offering US guaranteed insurance for passage through the straights of Hormuz and possible US warship escorts.
The Iranian side of the straights are littered with antiship missles, I have heard some “experts” say this is practically suicide.
So Far Trump has shown he knows what he is doing. Regardless, if he manages to ppen the straigns of Hormuz quickly – that is a huge win.
He is also now talking about limited use of troops – and My guess is that MIGHT be to occupy the area near the straights of Hormuz.
We are also arming the Iranian Kurds (which likely has Turkey pi$$ed).
Purportedly Iran is more than 1/3 of the way through its Missiles.
Oh and Lebanon is taking on Hezbolla – that is probably the end of them.
Good post, John.
The nuclear ambition and missile threat of Iran are being destroyed. Iran as a state supporter of terrorism is over, likely permanently. That was our mission, and mostly a tremendous Trump success. What happens next is something that is unknown.
Middle Eastern nations have joined together and are fighting together with Israel against Iran. It looks like the Abraham Accords will be greatly enhanced. That is also a success.
Side successes are that this reduces the threat of a war with China over Taiwan and threats from Russia emanating from their attempts to move their borders into Ukraine. Peace is closer.
We are moving in a unipolar direction where the US might once again become the sole superpower, which can add a layer of security that the large powers will remain peaceful with one another.
I think to date, Trump has been extremely successful, though our leftist friends feel everything he does is wrong. They cannot look at the mess Biden made, so they feel compelled to unjustly criticize Trump.
What comes next is open to question. The stupid game played by the left is stupid, based on ignorance, and not knowing where their voice can be appropriately used. Their playbook is yet to be written, so their word games mentioned by you above are all they have presently.
X says: March 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM Of course they would pose a threat if WE attacked them without provocation. WOW. How stupid does he think Americans are?
How many Americans have Iran’s theocrat Mullahs killed by way of their proxy terrorists in the last 50 years, George/X? If the math to provide that answer is too tough to tackle so late in the evening, try this instead:
How many Americans have been killed by those Mullahs ever since Obama and Biden illegally gave them almost $200 billion in taxpayer dollars – hoping they could buy them off so they’d stop sending their terrorists to kill Americans?
How stupid do you think the people you think you’re going to convince are, George/X?