A person posted her complaint that people of the Democratic Party should be more positive & support the attacks on Iran ordered last weekend. One complimented hers as a voice of reason & compared trump’s actions to those of President Obama in May, 2011. 1/10

Stop right there. Pres Obama’s actions were lawful & relied upon the AUMF [FN1] enacted by Congress in 2001. Pres Obama’s construction of that statute as applicable to his administration’s actions was “adopted by the…

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We interrupt “History of the Constitution” to offer “Short history of U.S. involvement in Iran.”

1953: Mossadegh, elected by people of Iran to head gov't, but U.S. joined other countries in Mossadegh's overthrow because Mossadegh nationalized Iran's oil. [FN1] 1/12

We replaced Mossadegh w/the Shah [FN2], who nationalized Iran’s oil industry [FN3] & was a leader in OPEC. [FN4] [FN5] The Shah used coupons the U.S. gives to our dictators to form & train his secret police,…

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In 1962, in Mrs Whitacre’s 2nd grade class at Alto Elementary, we were taught to crawl under our desks in the event of nuclear war that was possible because of “the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Pres Kennedy was smart, a WW2 veteran, knew the carnage of war and studied history. 1/6



“A few months earlier, President Kennedy had read Barbara Tuchman’s ‘The Guns of August’,” [FN1] Barbara Tuchman’s Pulitzer-winning account of European powers’ blundering into WW1. During a conversation w/Atty… Continue

The Articles of Confederation governed the 13 States [FN1] w/o “Jesus” or “Christ.” “Religion” is not specific, [FN2] & “great Governor of the World” is a deist term. [FN3] The Treaty of Paris ended the war, [FN4] but does not say the U.S. is a Christian nation. [FN5] 1/12

The treaty’s date is “In the Year of our Lord,” [FN6] & it does not mean the U.S. is Christian. [FN7] “God” enters, but for: “Prince George the third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, Defender of…

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