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Rabid Democrats toss truth aside to rescue Iran’s regime

The US Senate is set to vote Wednesday on a resolution that aims to handcuff President Donald Trump, barring him from taking additional military action against the Iranian regime.

That measure should be soundly rejected: It’s a violation of the Constitution’s Article II, which makes the president commander-in-chief of the nation’s armed forces.

Every president since 1950 has launched military operations against foreign governments without seeking Congress’ permission or a declaration of war.

Yet Trump’s strategic air attack on the Islamic Republic, which began Saturday, is evoking a torrent of vitriol from Democrats. 

They’re calling him “an authoritarian ruler” and claiming the strikes are a “gross violation of the Constitution,” because Trump didn’t first get Congress to declare war.

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These Democrats (and a few outlier Republicans) are knowingly lying to the public — and impairing Trump’s stature abroad.

The United States hasn’t officially declared war since World War II. 

Since then, President Harry Truman ordered air and naval forces to South Korea in 1950.

And President Lyndon Johnson sent troops to Vietnam in 1965.  

And President Bill Clinton took military action in 1999 to stop mass-murdering Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic.

And President George W. Bush dispatched troops to Iraq in 2006 as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, to topple Saddam Hussein.

And President Barack Obama deployed the military to take out Libyan autocrat Moammar Khadafy.

Members of the opposition party often objected to those choices — though not with the kind of ad-hominem, degrading attacks Democrats are hurling at Trump.

Congress tried to rein in this presidential power decades ago. 

In 1973, at the tail end of the Vietnam War, it passed the War Powers Resolution, which tells the president to notify Congress before military action begins, and requires a presidential report to Congress within 48 hours of the start of hostilities. 

The president then has 60 days to finish the action, or to secure congressional authorization allowing it to continue.

So far, Trump appears to be complying with the resolution.

He notified congressional leaders just before the strike began, and has kept them briefed in subsequent days.

But he doesn’t have to: As Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters Tuesday, every president since 1973 has disputed the War Powers Resolution’s constitutionality.

When Clinton defied the WPR to take military action in Kosovo, and when Obama brushed it aside to go into Libya, members of Congress sued — and lost in court both times.   

That means there’s no constitutional precedent for handcuffing the commander-in-chief at this point, as congressional Democrats demand. 

Old-timer Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who was on the scene for the Clinton and Obama military forays, knows that Trump is on firm ground. 

Yet she lashed out on social media after the Iran strike, claiming Trump “ignored the Constitution.”   

The hypocrisy and malice are stunning.

But it’s no surprise — the Israel-loathing left is taking over the Democratic Party. 

Even as Mayor Zohran Mamdani vilified his texting buddy for killing Ali Khamenei, Iranians in New York (and London, LA and around the world) were dancing with joy in the streets.

Listen to the Iranians, not the partisan politicians.

As for the rhetorical attacks dominating the news, these mislead the public about what the Constitution requires.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) accuses Trump of being “a would-be dictator” who “cares nothing about our sacred Constitution.”

In fact, the Constitution’s framers wanted a commander-in-chief empowered to act with “secrecy and dispatch,” as Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 70.

The framers gave Congress the authority to “declare war” — but only after considering, and rejecting, broader language that would have given legislators the power to “make war.”   

That more general power should belong to the president, framers Elbridge Gerry and James Madison explained.

Yet Murphy, who has been in Congress since 2007 and witnessed first-hand presidents from both parties calling the shots on military interventions, raged this week that “it’s clear as day” this president is violating the Constitution. 

What’s “clear as day” is that partisan critics would rather resort to lies, and demean the United States on the world stage, than give Trump credit for ridding the world of a nuclear threat and leading fomenter of murderous terrorism.

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