Kaine: Trump strikes on Iran an 'illegal war'
Source: The Hill
03/01/26 2:37 PM ET
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) on Sunday said the Trump administration launched an illegal war with strikes on Iran. Kaine is sponsoring a war powers resolution vote seeking to block further attacks against Iran.
This is an illegal war. I have a war powers resolution queued up for vote this week, and Im encouraging my colleagues to assert the constitutional power vested in the legislative branch, the Virginia senator said during an appearance on Fox News Sunday.
Republican lawmakers including Reps. Pat Harrigan (N.C.) and Mike Lawler (N.Y.) say President Trump is acting in accordance with the law, noting that the War Powers Resolution gives the president the authority to act for up to 60 days without prior congressional approval.
However, Kaine disagrees. This is an illegal war
because the representative cited the statute, but he neglected to mention the Constitution. And the Constitution cant be changed by statute. The Constitution says no declaration of war without Congress, Kaine said.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5761879-kaine-challenges-trump-iran/
slightlv
(7,688 posts)They probably won't until the first bomb is descending on the white house (please let der fuhrer be there). Probably ought to take out Mar a logo, too... he spends more time in his resort playing golf than he does in the white house.
pat_k
(12,984 posts).. bargains being entered into under the aegis of the so-called "board of peace."
Netanyahu has facilitated the most monumental pay-to-play scheme we have ever seen.
Yes, Trump's war is a violation of the constitution and international law. Yes, it is a distraction from the trump/epstein scandal.
But it is ALSO the most monumentally corrupt payoff we have ever seen take place in front of our eyes.
MBS has put billions into trumps pockets. So has Netanyahu. The OWN the man. The magnitude of the corruption, which goes back decades, has grown to epic proportions. It's beyond mind-boggling.
Even before Dar Global, with its deep links to MBS and the Saudi state, started funneling tens of millions in licensing fees to Trump in 2021, even before they partnered with trump org on multiple projects worth billions, even before the Saudi/MBS-led Public Investment Fund shoveled 2 billion into Kushner's Affinity Partners, MBS owned Trump.
As William Rivers Pitt (may he rest in peace) reported in 2019
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They buy apartments from me, Trump said at a rally in Alabama in 2015. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much. Trump has ample reason to like them very much:
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Now, after the recent attack against a significant portion of Saudi Arabias petroleum infrastructure, the commander in chief of the United States armed forces appears to have verbally ceded decision-making power over to the 45th floor tenants of Trump Tower.
There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, Trump tweeted on Saturday, are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!
Waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed! Every member of the vast, wildly expensive U.S. intelligence-gathering apparatus can take an early lunch, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff can stay in bed, because the president says Saudi Arabia will tell him who launched the attack, and when it will be time to go to war (against Iran).
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We MUST call on our elected to bang the drum on the ACTUAL corruption with the relentless vigor the right-wing nuts muster for utterly bullshit "scandals." Yes, they bring it up. But somehow our side has not learned the lesson of repetition. A few statements doesn't cut it. They need to learn to say the same set of things over, and over, and over, and over again until they are sick of hearing themselves say them. And then they need keep saying them. Only then does the "message" have a shot at penetrating.
As they make their statements denouncing the strikes, it is not enough to condemn the violation of the constitution and international law, they need to connect the act to the magnitude of Trump's corrupt bargains with the Saudi crown. They need to bring up the magnitude of the corrupt bargains Trump has entered under the "board of peace" umbrella.