Congress Fiddles While Trump Lurches Toward War On Iran By Ron Paul!!!
(2019-05-27 at 17:46:49 )

Congress Fiddles While Trump Lurches Toward War on Iran by Ron Paul

The United States Congress, and particularly the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, seems determined to see the end of the President Trump Administration before the 2020 vote.

Although House Speaker Pelosi claims she is not seeking impeachment, she is accusing the president of "covering up" something. However, she will not say what until she can do more investigating.

But President Trumps opponents on both sides of the Congressional aisle do not seem so enthusiastic about challenging the president when he actually does abuse his Constitutional authority to pursue a more aggressive policy overseas.

Late last week, for example, President Trump declared a national security "emergency" brought about by unspecified "Iranian malign activity" - a "loophole" allowing him to bypass United States Congressional review of some $8 billion in United States weapons to be sold to Saudi Arabia.

The United States Congress had been reluctant to approve yet more arms sales to Saudi Arabia after the President vetoed a bi-partisan House and Senate-approved bill requiring the United States to end its military support for the Saudi war of aggression against Yemen.

What might this new Iran "emergency" be??

As with the lead-up to the Iraq war, the Administration claims important secret intelligence -- but of course we have to just trust them.

From what we have heard from the Administration, it looks pretty flimsy.

Rear Admiral Michael Gilday, the director of the Joint Staff, has outright claimed that the so-called "sabotage" of four container ships at port in the UAE is the doing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

But even Abu Dhabi did not claim Iranian involvement in the mysterious incident.

Could it have been a false flag???

Admiral Gilday also claims, without providing proof, that the recent firing of a small rocket in the general vicinity of the United States Embassy in Iraq is the work of the Iranians.

"We believe with a high degree of confidence that this [recent attacks] stems back to the leadership in Iran at the highest levels," he said.

What would Iran gain by shooting off an insignificant rocket, exposing itself to United States massive retaliation with no gain whatsoever??

They do not say.

The Trump Administration has been lacking any coherent foreign policy strategy for some time.

It often seems the President is fighting more with his own appointees than with his opponents on Capitol Hill.

As soon as he announces that ISIS is defeated and United States troops must come home, his employees like National Security Advisor John Bolton "clarify" President Trumps statements to mean that troops are staying.

President Trump goes to Hanoi to cut a deal with North Koreas Kim Jong-Un and Mr. Bolton shows up with a poison pill that blows up the deal.

Mr. Bolton announced plans for 120,000 United States troops to the Middle East to help push the war on Iran he has been hocking for 20 or so years.

Then we heard it was 10,000. Then 1,500, of which 600 are already there.

Whether President Trump is on board or not, his Administration is clearly dragging the United States into conflict with Iran.

While some Members remind the president that he does not have United States Constitutional authority to attack Iran without approval, that argument has not been very effective in deterring presidents thus far.

If the United States Congress really wanted to rein in an out-of-control president, they have plenty of opportunity in his bogus "national emergency" declaration and his saber rattling toward Iran.

But if asserting Constitutional authority means the United States Congress acts to pull-back United States militarism overseas, suddenly there is a great bipartisan silence.

They would rather impeach President Trump over his rude Tweets than over his stomping on the United States Constitution.

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