The president appeared to confirm fears that he’s improvising when it comes to his military campaign in Iran.

On Monday, the president’s lack of a plan in Iran was outlined in stark terms in a letter to Congress obtained by CBS News officially informing lawmakers of the strikes.

“Although the United States desires a quick and enduring peace, it is not possible at this time to know the full scope and duration of military operations that may be necessary,” Trump said in the letter.

U.S. forces “remain postured to take further action… to address further threats and attacks upon the United States or its allies and partners,” he continued.

The letter was sent under the War Powers Act, a 1973 resolution requiring the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying U.S. forces if Congress has not declared war. The deployment cannot last more than 60 days without congressional approval.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      9 hours ago

      We’re beginning to develop the outline of a concept of a way to develop a plan…

      /s

      Rubio already let the cat out of the bag tho.

      He said Israel was going to do it, so America “had no choice” and had to go when Israel did.

      Pretty sure Israel has said that theyve been planning this with trump for a long time tho. So most likely Israel is just literally ordering the US military around on a moments notice.

      Our military and our elected Congress are completely out of the loop.

      We can’t accept anymore Dems who work with Israel at this point, they’re a hostile nation and any Dem who treats them favorably after this should be ruled out on judgement alone, but obviously ethics as well.

      • dizzle18@lemmy.zip
        5·
        9 hours ago

        We got dragged into war because Israel was about to Leeerrroooooy Jenkins into Iran without us. Fucking remarkable.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          3·
          8 hours ago

          I’m increasingly feeling like America is the Germany to Israel’s Austria in WWI. Absolutely complicit and down to be a villain, but also being dragged into a stupid fight because of incompetent leadership and an ally that insists on biting off more than they can chew because they know they can make us fight for them.

      • AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        At this point nothing would shock me less than Bibi having a copy of everything Epstein had on Trump, and him using it to order his orange lapdog to do his bidding.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          8 hours ago

          Bruh who do you think they worked for?

          Long before Epstein was involved, Maxwell’s dad ran it. And it was never the only one, it’s just the one that most people know about.

          Like, this is literally the reason even now most governments aren’t saying shit about Israel, and why damn near every government needs cleaned out.

          They obviously have blackmail on trump, but they’ve got it on almost everyone else too.

          trump is just dogshit at lying and hiding motivations. So he attracts attention, but he’s not the only one.