Democrats Call For Congressional Vote On Trump's 'Illegal' War Against Iran - Huffpost

[karynnj]

4. Have they forgotten how demanding a vote and going to the UN worked out in 2002?

I remember after the war became very unpopular in 2005, that the media went after the most prominent Democrats who voted for it blaming THEM more than they blamed GWB. Any argument that GWB did not honor any commitments made to them or even conditions in the resolution were mocked as the resolution had no teeth and they should have known the administration was lying.

Here, the bombing already happened and we certainly don't know all the consequences. Before they can write and pass anything, everything could either be over (no serious Iran retaliation which is unlikely) or we could be retaliating to our troops being targeted or shipping stopped.

Even under the war powers act, if Trump declared that the US acted to prevent an existential crisis, attacking and getting authorization from Congress after the fact ( I think within 60 days) is consistent. I would not be surprised if "intelligence, possibly Israeli" is the new "yellow cake" as to why we had to attack.