US lawmakers condemn Trump over Iran strikes: ‘acts of war unauthorized by Congress’
Members of Congress swiftly denounced the president's military action against the Islamic Republic alongside Israel
Donald Trump's failure to build a case with the US public for striking Iran and then going ahead apparently without even alerting Congress's key national security experts - the so-called gang of eight" - has fuelled fierce domestic criticism of the military action against the Islamic Republic on Saturday.
Belying the gravity of Saturday's attacks, the president spent just three minutes of Tuesday's record-length one hour and 48 minute State of the Union address trying to explain why the need to act against a regime that had been a strategic foe for decades had suddenly become so urgent and whose nuclear facilities he claimed to have obliterated" in previous strikes last June.
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