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J.D. Tuccille: Trump has a case for war. He should have made it to Congress

Many of us cheer the decapitation of the Islamist regime, but the president is acting outside constitutional and legal boundaries

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is now the former supreme leader of Iran and the world is a better place for his absence. Dozens of other figures in Iran’s murderous Islamist regime join him in improving the planetary climate by their removal as the result of a joint American-Israeli attack on Iran. But U.S. lawmakers and the public learned about the conflict after the decision to launch strikes had been made by the Trump administration. U.S. President Donald Trump has followed in the footsteps of too many of his predecessors in committing the country to a military conflict with all the risk that entails without first convincing people of the necessity of such a step or asking Congress for constitutionally required permission.

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“For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted ‘Death to America’ and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder, targeting the United States, our troops and the innocent people in many, many countries,” President Trump pointed out in justifying the operation. Among the incidents he cited were the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut by Iranian proxy Hezbollah, the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, which Iranian officials helped plan, and the Tehran government’s slaughter of thousands of its own protesting citizens in January. He emphasized that the Islamist government “rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions.”

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