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no_hypocrisy

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2. Semantics.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2026, 06:33 AM

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If Trump & Co. had called the Iran "action" a "war," there would be delay, if not outright intransigence, by the Pentagon while their legal teams parsed through military caselaw and constitutional caselaw to see if starting a war without Congress would be an "illegal act". (See Mark Kelly.)

By promoting the fallacy that it was just another American military police action, in-and-out, it wasn't technically a "war", and that the Pentagon and all branches of the military could just do whatever Trump and Hegseth told them to do.

So . . . . when is a war not a war?

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