The Trump Administration is rapidly escalating tensions with Iran, and public statements all give the impression that America may be on the brink of starting a major war. The Senate is hoping to get somebody from the administration in within the next week to hear what on earth is actually going on.
Senate Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee chair Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a hawk, but added that he doesn’t think it’s fair for the administration to just leave the Senate wondering.
Some are just wanting a briefing, while Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rand Paul (R-KY) expressed concern about the possibility of a new war, noting that the administration has never gotten permission from Congress for a war.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says he thinks officials out to testify openly in the Senate Armed Services Committee this week. The administration has provided no indication if that’s going to happen, but anything that gives the impression that Congress has a say in the war will probably be opposed by many of the administration’s hawks.
The only way Congress will ever be relevant to war policy is if they grab the purse-strings tight and are immune to blushing-bashful when an idiot yells “support the troops!” The Constitution makes it absolutely clear that Congress has authority over federal spending… they have shirked that responsibility by massively funding discretionary contingency funds and military modernization for years, and now they whine that they’re not being included in the war-making. They love dictatorships, now they are ruled by one.
Aww ain’t that cute, the rubber stamp thinks it has a voice.
Trump would gladly oblige but he hasn’t received his orders from Bibi on what his stance might be today.
All that is irrelevant. If Israel sets up a false flag operation on the border with Lebanon, Israel will claim it was attacked by Hezbollah, the US will join in – since this is obviously already planned and in the works – and Congress will be forced to authorize it since Congress can’t afford to anger the rich Zionists in the US and the military-industrial complex who fund their election campaigns. So Congress gets completely bypassed and left in the dark as to who really set up this new war.
Then when the war gets extended into Syria and eventually Iran, Trump and the neocons get their war and Congress was never relevant. Maybe ten or twenty years later, when the war has obviously failed (because Iran will never surrender), Congress will vote to pull out. They haven’t done that with Afghanistan, but Afghanistan hasn’t been a disaster on the same scale as a war with Iran will be. I wouldn’t count on Congress growing a pair sooner.
the senate huh? how about someone demand bolton and pompous be fired? then remove AIPAC from the usa. kennedy tried to force aipac to register as a foreign entity and we see what happened. those who want to escalate war,need to go to the front line. trump, kushner, trump juniors, bolton, pompous fool, etc and all members og AIPAC whether they are in govt jobs or not. we will sit back and watch.