May 1, 2003
A little more than 22 years ago, President George Walker Bush (“W”), declared;
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed ... because the regime [the Iraqi dictatorship of Saddam Hussein] is no more."
June 21, 2025
President Donald Trump announced in a White House address on Saturday night that the United States had conducted “massive precision strikes” to destroy Iran’s three key nuclear enrichment sites, declaring them “completely and totally obliterated.”
Before I go any further, no one knows the whole story as to President Trump’s “accomplishment”, and we certainly don’t know how this military adventure will look 22 years from now. What we do know is that the Bush administration made the justification for the invasion of Iraq clear to the US Congress in October of 2002, and Congress passed an Authorization for the Use of Military Force Agreement Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.
The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002,[1] informally known as the Iraq Resolution, is a joint resolution passed by the United States Congress in October 2002 as Public Law No. 107-243, authorizing the use of the United States Armed Forces against Saddam Hussein's Iraq government in what would be known as Operation Iraqi Freedom.[2]
Furthermore, on February 5, 2003, Secretary of State, Colin Powell went before the UN’s Security Council and presented a power point presentation as to why this military action was necessary.
February 5, 2003
Powell himself stated later:[8] "I, of course, regret the U.N. speech that I gave, which became the prominent presentation of our case. But we thought it was correct at the time. The President thought it was correct. Congress thought it was correct." "Of course I regret that a lot of it turned out be wrong," he said.
The lead up to these very different “accomplishments” could not be more different.
June 18, 2025
“I may do it, I may not do it,” Trump said of a potential U.S. strike in another exchange with reporters at the White House on Wednesday. “I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.”
Who knows, therefore, the day may come that I will have to give a tip of the hat to this President for having stumbled into Bibi Netanyahu’s web of war crimes and gotten this presidential call right. But for God’s sake, everyone who gives a damn about how we (The United States of America for crying out loud) conduct ourselves militarily, using the most sophisticated and deadly weaponry in existence today, has got to know just how ludicrously this aggression was handled.
“W” and his team took us from Osama bin Laden’s horrific attack on 9/11 into Vice President Cheney’s military industrial complex multi-trillion-dollar wet dream. But at least they got it outrageously wrong with permission. This clown car of Trump administration sycophants had to sit around guessing as to what the dear leader was going to do, and Congressional leaders had to find out we attacked Iran on Trump-owned Truth Social.
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The president gave updates on a war on his social media account: Armistices may never be the same again.
It should go without saying that this is not simply bullshit, but it is unconstitutional.
“The War Powers Act requires advance consultation with Congress, ‘whenever possible,’ before entering US troops into hostilities,” Somin added. “Here, I think it pretty obviously was possible, and it also pretty obviously wasn’t done.”
“This isn’t some technical rulemaking,” said Chris Anders, senior counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union. “It literally is one of the enumerated powers” of the Constitution.
We have come to understand, President Trump is not only a twice impeached convicted felon, virtual rapist, and instigator of the January 6, 2021, insurrection, he is a lawless disgrace to the American presidency. We can now add to his impressively long list of crimes against the American public, unconstitutional war hawk. (Not a great qualifier for a Noble Peace prize.)
Donald Trump Nobel Peace Prize Nomination Withdrawn
Published Jun 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM EDT