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When you're relying on Markwayne Mullin to be the defender of your policies, you are in a very weak position indeed

The man could not find Iran on a map if you gave him three guesses and pointed him in the general direction

I know

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

"Now, there’s a scramble by the admin & GOP sycophants to cobble together some Rube Goldberg contraption combining international law, domestic law, & executive authority that would somehow make this totally cool & legal, but there’s no way to make it work."

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For someone who wants less killing, Trump sure does bomb a lot of countries.

KAINE: To wage offensive war, the framers of the Constitution were absolutely plain that you gotta come to Congress

KERNEN: But it's almost a moot point

KAINE: Let me just underline the fact that I made an argument about the Constitution and you said it's a 'moot point.' I don't believe that

Trump doesn't care how many American soldiers die, as long as he gets to pretend that he's a big tough guy. A forever war is fine with him.

This is madness and history will judge us for it.

Hillary Clinton has had enough of your bullshit.

So have the rest of us.

Tuberville: "This is not your Democrat war. This is President Trump's war. And he's not going in to be politically correct."

that's what I thought

I'm a historian and I feel sick

and fuck my constituents, who cares what they think

Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."

and that the media is so obliging about sanitizing Trump's lunacy

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I feel like the media will never never learn

America's being led into war by a rambling, disassembling old man with no plan who gets distracted by the golden drapes next to his podium.

He's already lost interest in war

A fraud:

Remember when Hitler invaded Poland, claiming that Germany had been attacked?

"...but we have no regrets about students getting murdered, either here or abroad."

It's him

So totally expected

this is fucking shocking, and while i know politics journalists think it's cliché to point this out, a democratic president would be impeached for delivering this speech in this way, and rightly so.

Love the passive voice. "Hey, American soldiers get killed. It just happens. No one here was responsible for it."

I think Iran's theocratic regime is a menace.

But I also think the Constitution intentionally does not place the life-or-death decision over what to do about that in the hands of a single man.

Chris Murphy: "It won't be the billionaire children of Donald Trump and his buddies that die. It's going to be the children of middle class and poor families all across this country that are gonna die for a war of choice, a war of vanity, an illegal war."

YOU CAN'T BOMB AN INTENTION

It's apparently Trump's job to bomb the shit out of Iran, not to pick up the pieces afterwards

"Give me Immunity or give me Death!" doesn't have quite the same ring