Senate committee votes to continue abdicating Congressional war powers to prez

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted Wednesday to defeat a proposal which would prevent Congressional funding of any war against Iran unless authorized by Congress ahead of time. The vote was 13 to 9 with 2 of 10 Democrats joining 11 of the 12 Republicans to defeat the measure. Only Rand Paul (R-KY) broke with the Republican majority to make a principled statement that only Congress has constitutional authority to launch war.

The 13 who voted down the proposal abdicated their congressional responsibility to prevent the president from unilaterally taking America to war...something the current president and his predecessors have done in at least 8 countries in the last 18 years. Several of Trump's closest foreign policy advisers and possibly Trump himself are lusting for war against Iran. Why? Besides being sociopaths with no regard for the innocents they'll slaughter, they're willing to do the heavy lifting for Saudi Arabia and Israel who want Iran taken out but are too weak to do it themselves.

One of Trump's virulent war mongers, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, laughingly told the Committee before the vote: “There is no doubt there is a connection between the Islamic Republic of Iran and al-Qaeda. Period. Full stop.” That should be 'Period. Full Lie' because Iran has been FIGHTING al-Qaeda for decades, not cooperating with them against the US. When it comes to fomenting criminal war...no transparent lie will go untold.