Rabid Democrats toss truth aside to rescue Irans regime

The US Senate is set to vote Wednesday on a resolution that aims to handcuff President Donald Trump, barring him from taking additional military action against the Iranian regime.That measure should be soundly rejected: It’s a violation of the Constitution’s Article II, which makes the president commander-in-chief of the nation’s armed forces.Every president since 1950 has launched military operations against foreign governments without seeking Congress’ permission or a declaration of war.Yet Trump’s strategic air attack on the Islamic Republic, which began Saturday, is evoking a torrent of vitriol from Democrats. They’re calling him “an authoritarian ruler” and claiming the strikes are a “gross violation of the Constitution,” because Trump didn’t first get Congress to declare war.Nonsense.These Democrats (and a few outlier Republicans) are knowingly lying to the public — and impairing Trump’s stature abroad.The United States hasn’t officially declared war since World War II. Since then, President Harry Truman ordered air and naval forces to South Korea in 1950.And President Lyndon Johnson sent troops to Vietnam in 1965. And President Bill Clinton took military action in 1999 to stop mass-murdering Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic.And President George W.

Bush dispatched troops to Iraq in 2006 as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, to topple Saddam Hussein.And President Barack Obama deployed the military to take out Libyan autocrat Moammar Khadafy.Members of the opposition party often objected to those choices — though not with the kind of ad-hominem, degrading attacks Democrats are hurling at Trump.Congress tried to rein in this presidential power decades ago. In 1973, at the tail end of the Vietnam War, it passed the War Powers Resolution, which tells the president to notify Congress before military action begins, and requires a presidential report to Congress within 48 hours of the start of hostilities. The president then ha...