White House Submits Iran War Powers Report to Congress

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Lawfare

Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 12:02 PM


On March 2, President Trump submitted his war powers report notifying Congress of the Feb. 28 U.S.-Israeli joint strikes he authorized against Iran. The report comes a few days after the military action that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. President Trump’s report does not address why the military carried out the attack without prior congressional authorization.

The war powers report references threats posed by the Iranian regime, including state-sponsored terrorism, destructive military capabilities, and the development of nuclear weapons. Citing failed diplomatic efforts, the president said that “strikes were undertaken to protect United States forces in the region, protect the United States homeland, advance United States national interests....and in collective self-defense of our regional allies, including Israel,” and claimed that they were “executed in a manner designed to minimize civilian casualties, deter future attacks, and neutralize Iran's malign activities.”

President Trump also asserted that “United States forces remain postured to take further action, as necessary and appropriate, to address further threats…”

The letter invokes the War Powers Resolution as a basis for informing Congress and indicates that President Trump directed this action “pursuant to [his] constitutional authority as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive to conduct United States foreign relations.”

Read more: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/white-house-submits-iran-war-powers-report-to-congress

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Link to REPORT (PDF) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27725118-war-powers-report-iran/#document/p1

DAYS after starting the bombing.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Killing 175 or so schoolgirls isn't "minimizing deaths".

Did he include an exit plan in this pack of lies?

[2naSalit]

3. To be fair...

He doesn't think school aged girls are human, they're just something to sexually abuse.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. That's very true.

Pisses me off even more because he doesn't give a rat's ass about kids murdered in school shootings in this country.

[2naSalit]

6. Pisses me off...

that he doesn't give a fuck about anyone but himself. If he appears to care about someone else, it's an act that lasts as long as it takes for him to get what he wants out of them.

My dad was a lot like him only without the money, any person who has the sickness those fuckers have is someone I avoid like the plague and wish they would fall off the planet in a hurry.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. I've hated him since about five minutes after I heard about him back in the 1980s.

Even then, I sensed that he was a worthless person, a waste of DNA, and bad news. That impression has only become more evidence in the 40+ years.

I'm sorry that your father was so much like him. That can't have been easy for you while growing up.

[2naSalit]

9. It was...

Not easy, my childhood was stolen from me and I got away from him asap. Parents like that are one of the myriad reasons there are runaway children on our streets.

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. My childhood wasn't perfect, but there was nothing like what you must have gone through.

It's good that you got out of that situation and built your own life.

[2naSalit]

11. I had to...

Rescue my three baby sisters at the same time or they would have been victims of incest. It was quite an epic event, actually. But that was more than half a century ago. My concern is that this sort of abuse ends, at least in this country now.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. That took enormous courage and ability to take your sisters away from that situation.

I'm in awe.

Kids should never subjected to abuse of any kind. There are a lot of sick people in this world.

[2naSalit]

13. Yes there are...

And too many of them are holding positions of power these days. That's the part that's hard to deal with now.

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. I despise them all.

[ananda]

16. That's why I thought putting the Marriage of Figaro...

in Trump Tower was a brilliant idea.

It was a very interesting show to watch,
more than once.

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. I had totally forgotten about that.

It was totally appropriate to stage it in that setting. Never saw it, but I'll have to look it up to see if it's streaming somewhere or on YouTube.

Thanks for the reminder.

[ananda]

18. I saw it back in the day on PBS.

PBS televised several Peter Sellars' operas,
not just the Marriage of Figaro.

Looking back, it was totally genius to stage
it that way in Trump Tower penthouse.

[greatauntoftriplets]

20. Sellars is a man ahead of his time.

It'd be interesting to know what he things now.

[ananda]

21. Me too.

Those operas were shown 40 years ago.

[greatauntoftriplets]

22. I meant "thinks", not "things".

Sellars was in his early 30s at the time, too.

[ananda]

23. He's still alive.

Those operas pretty much describe
the state of our world now.

[greatauntoftriplets]

24. I know, he's in his late 60s.

He sees things clearly. It'd be interesting to one day see those operas performed at the Kennedy Center. It'd be appropriate.

[ananda]

25. Lol

That would be poetic justice on steroids!

[angrychair]

2. Doesn't address the reasoning

I just listened to a press gaggle with Little Marco and he must have mentioned the nuclear threat a dozen times or more.
The thing is not even a year ago they said they destroyed that capacity. insistent actually.

So...were they lying then or are they lying now?

[BumRushDaShow]

4. They didn't claim they just "destoyed" it, they claimed "it was OBLITERATED"!

[pat_k]

7. Sounds like just a bunch of assertions that all other evidence and analysis contradicts.

No legitimate evidence cited?

And what about the fact they WERE making progress on negotiations? With Oman asserting breakthrough on Feb 27.

https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/896758/trump-voices-frustration-with-iran-as-mediator-oman-claims-nuclear-talks-breakthrough

Almost seems like they accelerated attack plans (Uh oh, better bomb NOW before anyone notices the progress).

But of course they wouldn't do that...

[Bayard]

15. Weapons of mass destruction....

Golly, where have we heard that before? Oh, yeah--the last rethuglican idiot president that lied and plopped us into a never ending war, that killed thousands of our soldiers, and cost billions of dollars.

I'd like to know what, "national interests," he's referring to.

[durablend]

19. "National interests" being "Burial of Epstein files"