The U.S. Senate's resolution aiming to handcuff President Donald Trump, barring him from taking additional military action against Iran, should be soundly rejected: It's an unconstitutional violation of 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 Iran on Saturday is evoking a torrent of vitriol from Democrats in Congress.

They're calling him "an authoritarian ruler" and claiming the strikes are a "gross violation of the Constitution" because Trump did not ask Congress for a declaration of war first.

These Democrats are knowingly lying to the public – and impairing Trump's stature abroad.

The United States has not declared war since 1942, when the nation entered World War II.

Since then, Harry Truman ordered air and naval forces to South Korea in 1950.

And Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to Vietnam in 1965.

And Bill Clinton took military action in 1999 to stop........

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