The US is preparing to basically go to war with Iran if it dares retaliates for the attack on their state. The US is moving assets into the region to include ma nuke sub carrying bunches of missiles….and now the wait begins and those trigger fingers are getting itchy.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a guided-missile submarine to the Middle East and is telling the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to sail more quickly to the area, the Defense Department said Sunday. The moves come as the US and other allies push for Israel and Hamas to achieve a ceasefire that could help calm soaring tensions in the region following the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut. Officials have been on the lookout for retaliatory strikes by both Iran and Hezbollah for the killings, reports the AP, and the US has been beefing up its presence in the region.

And the wait continues…..

But I thought Congress had the last say on any ‘war’ or military action….is that not the case?

Do not worry those cowards in Congress, you know the ones that get those bog checks from Israel or the defense industry, will loo the other way as they have done for many years….thus avoiding their duties as a cog in the whole scheme of federalism.

Yes that is right….this crap has been going on for decades….

With the U.S.- backed carnage in Gaza continuing and the threat of growing violence looming throughout the region (in Lebanon, Iran, and who knows where else), we need to think more deeply than ever about how the American people have historically been excluded from foreign policy decision-making. An upcoming anniversary should remind us of what sent us down this undemocratic path.

Sixty years ago, on August 7, 1964, Congress handed President Lyndon Johnson the power to wage a major war in Vietnam, solidifying its long-standing deference to the presidency on foreign policy. Not once since World War II has Congress exercised its constitutional responsibility to vote on declarations to decide if, when, and where the United States goes to war.

The Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964 flew through Congress, in part because most members trusted the president’s assurance that he sought “no wider war.” Their trust was misplaced. The Johnson administration kept secret and lied about its plans for future military escalation in Vietnam. It also lied about the incident used to persuade Congress to give LBJ a blank check to use military force however he wanted: the false claim that American ships had been the targets of unprovoked and unequivocal attacks by North Vietnamese patrol boats.

In fact, the United States had been fighting a secret war against North Vietnam since 1961. The U.S. destroyers that LBJ said were innocently sailing on the “high seas” were there to support South Vietnamese attacks (organized by the U.S. military and CIA) on North Vietnamese coastal villages. On August 2, 1964, these ongoing acts of war finally provoked a few Vietnamese patrol boats to chase after a U.S. destroyer which, firing first, easily disabled the small vessels. The Vietnamese managed to fire a few torpedoes but missed. There were no American casualties. Not exactly Pearl Harbor.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/02/blank-checks-for-war-congressional-abdication-from-tonkin-to-gaza/

History shows how Congress will do anything to avoid having to vote on war…..not good for one’s campaign for re-election.

Apparently Biden does not care for he will leave this mess he has created for the next president to deal with in whatever convoluted way they see fit.

This whole situation is a massive clusterf*ck.

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