Screenshot President Trump says that the U.S. Navy will escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz “if necessary.” Why would that be necessary? Because Iran has closed off this crucial trading route after it was attacked by the U.S. and Israel. The Senate voted NOT to pass a resolution to stop the war in Iran. It’s a double negative, but the meaning is simple: the Senate voted to allow the President to continue his war in Iran. The irony. The Constitution gives Congress alone the power to declare war, but now Congress is saying, “We don’t feel the need to weigh in here. The President can carry on.” The resolution failed because 52 Senators voted against it. Looking on the bright side, 48 voted for it. Because it failed in the Senate, it will go no further, so we will never know what the House of Representatives would do. Even if it had passed both chambers, the President most likely would have vetoed a bill restricting the war he himself started. But hey! We got a new war movie poster! Doesn’t that make you feel better about the war? Americans may die, but at least we are cinematically foreboding! Sources are telling Redacted that the American death count is decidedly more than six. Some say it is in the hundreds and that Americans are being lied to in order to tamp down dissent. Will it work? The post Congress Won’t Stop the War It Was Supposed to Declare appeared first on Redacted.