The ColossUS Is Out of Control! Le Colosse est hors de contrôle!

There is no will, no determination, no desire, within the US government colossus, the neocons or globalists to be responsive to the wishes of the American people, when it comes to making war. There is no felt need to explain why war is necessary, in very specific terms that can be verified or rejected. There is no need to wait until evidence is thoroughly investigated. Our precious constitutional republic is dying. The Republicrats have crossed the Rubicon. If the historical past is a pattern we will find out shortly that Assad was not the guilty party in Douma.

This is nothing new. Trump is no exception.

Since 1998, how many Americans knew about, cared, responded, or tried to investigate US Tomahawk Cruise missiles launched at Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Bosnia & Herzegovina? And these attacks don't include the recent history of untold numbers of drone strikes.

"Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to declare war. The President, meanwhile, derives the power to direct the military after a Congressional declaration of war from Article II, Section 2, which names the President Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces." (Wex Legal Dictionary)

Presidents, of course, have wormed and weaseled their way around these strictures by calling war "police actions" or "single attacks."

And now we have this missile attack on Syria, purportedly launched to knock out chemical-weapons facilities.

This is a classic Orwellian operation: The enemy is who we are told the enemy is, and he will remain the enemy as long as our leaders say he is.

Images sent our way are described by official voice-over and given meaning, which we are supposed to accept without question. We are told that all of our missiles all worked perfectly.

The "good forces" opposing the enemy in Syria are named the "rebels," instead of ISIS, al Qaeda and Jaysh al Islam terrorists that our leaders helped create. This, too, we are supposed to accept.

But wait. According to The Intercept, "So while over 80 members of Congress wrote to Trump on Friday night, the 13^th, stating that 'engaging our military in Syria ... without prior congressional authorization would violate the separation of powers that is clearly delineated in the Constitution,' their action has no impact."

Strange. Major media haven't blasted, with big headlines, Congressional opposition to the Trump missile strike. News coverage has been urging and supporting the strike.

It gets stranger. Intercept: "Trump almost certainly does have some purported legal justification provided to him by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel [OLC] - but no one else, including Congress, can read it."

What?

"The OLC is often called the Supreme Court of the executive branch, providing opinions on how the president and government agencies should interpret the law."

"We know that Trump received a top secret OLC opinion justifying the previous U.S. strike on Syria on April 6, 2017. Friday's bombing undoubtedly relied on the same memo or one with similar reasoning." By the way, “Mad Dog” later admitted that Assad did not do that chemical attack. It reminds your watchman of Colin Powell's lying moment before the U.N. Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003? Secretary of State Powell presented evidence against Saddam: "The gravity of this moment is matched by the gravity of the threat that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) pose to the world

The US Justice Department is "its own judiciary." And its legal justifications for green lighting military attacks are secret.

Constitutional Separation of Powers doctrine?

Irrelevant.

Former long-term US Congressman and presidential candidate, Ron Paul, did much to stir up the American people with libertarian ideas and proposals, and, in the process, large numbers of Americans eventually went over to Trump's side, believing he was the reincarnation of Paul's positions---but with a much better reach into the heartland of the country.

Read what Paul wrote on October 2, 2017, and compare it with Trump's present stance. Paul: "Now that the defeat of ISIS in Syria appears imminent, with the Syrian army clearing out some of the last ISIS strongholds in the east, Washington's interventionists are searching for new excuses to maintain the illegal US military presence in the country. Their original rationale for intervention has long been exposed as another lie."

"Remember that President Barack Obama initially involved the US military in Iraq and Syria to 'prevent genocide' of the Yazidis and promised the operation would not drift into US 'boots on the ground.' That was three years ago and the US military became steadily more involved while Congress continued to dodge its Constitutional obligations. The US even built military bases in Syria despite having no permission to do so! Imagine if Syria started building military bases here in the US against our wishes."

"After six years of war the Syrian government has nearly defeated ISIS, Jaysh al Islam and al-Qaeda and the US-backed “moderates” terrorists turned out to be either Islamist extremists or Kurdish soldiers for hire. According to a recent report, the US has shipped two billion dollars worth of weapons to fighters in Syria via eastern Europe. Much of these weapons ended up in the hands of ISIS directly, or indirectly through 'moderates' taking their weapons with them while joining ISIS or al-Qaeda."Hmmm, can you say Benghazi?

"'Assad must go'," proclaimed President Obama back in 2011, as he claimed that the Syrian leader was committing genocide against his own people and that regime change was the only way to save Syrians. Then earlier this year, when eastern Aleppo was about to be liberated by the Syrian government, the neocons warned that Assad would move in and kill all the inhabitants. They warned that the population of eastern Aleppo would flee from the Syrian army. But something very different happened. According to the UN's International Organization for Migration, 600,000 refugees returned to Syria by August. Half of the returnees went back to Aleppo, where we were told Assad was waiting to kill them." Indeed, the Christians, Alawites and other minority sects in Syria support Assad because they know the Sunni terrorists will exterminate them.

"What happened? The neocons and 'humanitarian interventionists' lied. Just as they lied about Libya, Iraq, and so on."

If Trump is sounding like Ron Paul on the issue of Syria, an elephant is a space ship.