Daily Signal Podcast: Obama’s 7‑Month War vs. Trump’s 30 Days: The Left’s Selective Outrage

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🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The Left has spent every waking moment the last month trying to convince the public that the Trump administration’s so-called “war” in Iran isn’t legal. But they keep running into the same problem: Historically, they did the same thing, and on a much larger scale, argues Victor Davis Hanson on part 1 of his examination […]

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0:34.7	Let's start with the current state of affairs in the bombing campaign against Iran.
0:36.8	We could call them Iranian question.
0:39.3	Iranian. How's that? There's been a question,
0:44.5	is it legal? And the left has brought that up on repeated occasions that Trump does not have authorization from Congress. But the 1973 War Powers Act says that a president just must notify
0:50.8	Congress. Mark Rubio has done that. We notified Congress. I mean, we notified the gang of eight.
0:55.3	We notified congressional leadership.
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0:58.6	We've forgotten the 2011 Libyan bombing.
1:01.9	When there was a civil war, along with some NATO countries,
1:05.1	it was the idea of Barack Obama, the constitutional lawyer,
1:08.2	Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton,
1:10.8	who demanded that we bomb.
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