Thomas Massey

So it's just like the neocons have hijacked his foreign policy here in the first year.

It's not even taken a few years to get there.

Now, to your other point, we are supposed to vote on this in Congress, right?

Like we had this tortured legal scaffolding for Venezuela where they said, oh,

The DOJ is just arresting Maduro on some machine gun charges for U.S.

gun laws.

Well, he wasn't here in the U.S.

with those guns.

Yeah, he does run it.

I'm assuming if Donald Trump had a machine gun, that would be fine.

He's the commander in chief, and shouldn't that be the same way with another head of state?

In any case, it wasn't even a real arrest.

It was a military action and they were trying to say we had the military there to support the police of the DOJ who were arresting Maduro.

And we're going to get some kind of tortured constitutional argument for why the president could do a strike on Iran.

But even the War Powers Act says you can only engage in strikes if you're protecting our country.

From immediate threat.

And then even then you have to come to Congress and get authorization pretty soon thereafter.

So I've introduced Iran war powers resolution.

I put it in the hopper this summer when things were heating up.

Who could have foreseen we would do this in anticipation of something like this.