An Obama Double Take

In 2002, House Joint Resolution 114 authorized the use of force against Iraq and Iran at the Presidents discretion. Remember that? 


In 2007, then Senator Barack Obama introduced a bill to strip the resolution provision authorizing the use of force against Iran. The rational was to prevent Bush from indiscriminately bombing Iran's nuclear plants.


Later that year, Senator Obama stated in an interview “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."


Now, President Obama launches a unilateral attack, without congressional approval as required by the War Powers Resolution of 1973 against a nation that poses no threat to us.