Taft Iran warning 69 years ago resonates today

"If the President can intervene in Korea without congressional approval, we can go to war in Malaya or Indonesia or Iran or South America.” 

- Sen. Robert Taft (R-OH) on President Truman plunging US into Korean conflict of June, 1950, without Congressional Declaration of War. Sixty-nine years on Taft's warning has special meaning with manufactured Iran crisis.