The house voted to limit his powers because he almost got us into a war, and congress needs to be a part of getting into wars. It is actually written into our Constitution.
You trust the Iranian ballistic missile engineers enough to trust that they were going to precisely hit unoccupied spots on our bases? That their guidance systems were that good? An impressive feat, actually, one that could have been easily gone wrong with dead Americans resulting. No idea if we tried to shoot them down, but if so we could have disrupted its controls and turned it into an unguided bomb at low altitude, where it lands nobody knows. What then? Off to the races? 52 cultural sites attacked as promised?
Folks were absolutely hair trigger that night. They shot down an airliner, that’s how tightly wound they were. The fact that Trump actually talked sort of like an adult the next day is telling too.
