Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives’ vote on a War Powers Resolution directing the President to remove United States Armed Forces from Iran. The resolution failed to pass the House by a vote of 212-to-219.
“I was proud to vote ‘yes’ on the War Powers Resolution to put a stop to President Trump’s illegal war on Iran for which he has offered no coherent strategy, goals, or endgame and which the American people overwhelmingly oppose. My vote was a reflection of the will of the American people who object to yet another forever war in the Middle East in pursuit of regime change, which in this instance has already led to the deaths of half a dozen American servicemembers and over 1,000 civilians as well as regional instability and the likelihood of an even more extreme and dangerous regime taking power. We cannot continue to let the President act with impunity. Every time Republican leaders in Congress turn a blind eye and cede Congress’s authority, the President is emboldened and empowered to overstep his constitutional power. Today’s vote shows a continued disappointing and irresponsible failure of Republican leadership to follow the Constitution and put a stop to this reckless and corrupt president who only continues to descend into madness.”
Unbelievable. Congress is walking us right into a severe recession for no good reason. Southeast Asia is extremely dependent on oil coming through Hormuz. Japan gets 75% of their oil through there. South Korea 80%, Singapore 70%.. This also means no income for Gulf states who’s economy is based on oil. Couple that with the fact that Iran is Shia Muslim so they will sacrifice themselves (aka Jihad) to avenge the killing of the ayatollah, they have 80,000 drones that are very difficult to shoot down, our dwindling interceptor supply against their thousands of ballistic missiles.. For those who don’t know, we had about 600 THAAD interceptors in the US stockpile at the beginning of 2025. We used 150 of those during the June 12 day war. We can only make 96 per year. Yes, 96. We have no chance at taking on Iran. This is going to kill many Americans and crash global markets.
The majority of the people are not shia muslim and are happy to have the terrorist regime removed! The entire cabinet has been decimated, their drone launch pads have been decimated, their navy has been decimated and their “allies” are more quiet than a church mouse. We are keeping the Hormuz open and the gulf states are supporting. You sound like you are projecting what you want to happen…
The truth is we have no idea whats going on there right now. It’s even illegal to take videos of the damage in gulf states & Israel. We have no idea what the current state of the IRGC is and how many people there support them. Your beliefs of what the situation currently looks like are based purely on whatever your preferred medium of propaganda is. What we do know though is 6 Americans are dead and oil is up over 30% this week.
JimH,
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You stated, “The truth is we have no idea whats going on there right now.” Wouldn’t this negate your original comment above?
The numbers I posted are based on fact and not really changing with time. Qualitative statements like “Iran’s military has been decimated” is pure propaganda not based on fact. The pentagon has been pushing pro war propaganda since the beginning of time. Remember when Bush had his “Mission accomplished” banner moment early in the Iraq war? Or how about the Vietnam war where statements from the pentagon were extremely positive for years but then we later found out (Pentagon Papers) that the Sec Def, General Westmoreland, etc all concluded around 1965-1967 that the war was unwinnable but we needed to keep fighting simply so we didn’t look weak. We finally pulled out in 1973.
Thousands of US troops died despite command realizing Vietnam was a lost cause. I suspect years from now we will learn of similar closed door statements about the Iran war.
The truth is that I believe what is released by the WH and not some rando fact you posted online! You have no proof what you post is fact jimmy
Chicken Little move over…. we have Jim H now!
JimH,
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You’d better tell Lockheed Martin that they can ONLY produce 96 THAAD Interceptors per year, because they entered into a contract with the Department of Defense/Department of War back in January to increase production to 400 units per year.
Yes the goal is 400 per year by 2033. They just broke ground on their new facility in Camden. Meanwhile we’re probably shooting several per day in Iran. That 400 number is also assuming China will still allow us to make these missiles in 7 years. The chips come from Taiwan and the rare earths come from China. The radar in a THAAD missile requires gallium. China controls 98% of the world’s gallium production. What do you think happens if we get into a hot war with China over Taiwan and we’ve used up all of our THAAD’s fighting a pointless war in Iran?
JimH,
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Yet, we import more gallium from Japan than we do from China, and the majority of our gallium is imported from Japan, Germany, and Canada. Less than 1/5 of our imported gallium supply is from China. The U.S. also has gallium deposits, which is why the federal government has been fast tracking mining permits and is building metal refineries on U.S. military installations.
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Have you missed the fact that semiconductor fabrication is also expanding in the U.S. and many other countries in the world as a result of the Chinese threat of taking Taiwan.
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So far, China has been the big loser as a result of U.S. military actions taken in Venezuela and Iran. Iran is about controlling cheap oil going to China, just as it was in Venezuela. China will be the big loser in Cuba, too.
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You’re acting as though our THAAD Interceptors is our only weapons system, it’s not! We spend almost $1 trillion a year on our military and many other weapons systems.
Yes, we buy refined gallium from other countries but all the raw low grade ore comes from China first because of their massive aluminum smelting industry. Japan and South Korea produce like 3000kg per year china produces 785,000kg per year. The US defense industry needs something like 20 tons per year. China is the bottleneck and will always be the bottleneck because no one is planning on building an army of aluminum smelters.
Forever war in the Mid-East. Forever war in Ukraine. Trump. Biden. It’s the same foreign policy.
So you’re concerned about the Iranians? Soon they’ll be your neighbors. This is always the pattern of war displacement.
The same thing happened with Ukrainian migration, which spiked following the war. Same thing with Somalians following our involvement in their civil war in the 90s.
Now they are here, competing for jobs and social services. Having paid for these wars, the US citizen is poorer. And for the most part, these foreign regions are no better off than before we got involved.
How did MAGA go from AMERICA FIRST to MORE WAR in less than a year?
yoyohop,
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I wouldn’t say that the Trump and Biden Administration’s have the same foreign policy, they may share SOME foreign policy goals, but they obviously have different policies and actions, both planned and taken, in achieving those foreign policy goals.
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It’s that old saying, “America mind your own business, but intervene in your interests.” I wouldn’t call it “MORE WAR,” quite yet, but more of “FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS, AIR STRIKES, COMBAT OPERATIONS, or MILITARY ACTIONS,” at this point. We’ll really have to wait and see if this is “PERPETUAL WAR.” The “Make America Great Again” movement has gone from “AMERICA FIRST” to “FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS, AIR STRIKES, COMBAT OPERATIONS, or MILITARY ACTIONS,” or your “MORE WAR,” in less than a year, because President Trump has determined controlling the flow of cheap oil from Venezuela and Iran is in the interest of the “AMERICA FIRST” agenda. If regime change comes about as a result of U.S. actions that leads to a pro-American government, and access to oil, natural gas, precious metals, non-rare rare earth minerals, and gems being extracted by U.S. companies also comes about as a result of the U.S. controlling the flow of cheap oil from these countries, then President Trump has determined that to be “AMERICA FIRST.”
Senator John Fetterman looks to be the only democrat concerned
about quality of life for our children. World doesn’t need a country
with stated goal “Death To America” with nukes. Is about time a
President took action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBgi7r1hEsA
Senator Fetterman,
https://patriotpost.us/memes/125646-democrats-celebrating-2026-03-05
1)Weapons of Mass Destruction
2)Russia/China is the Bogeyman
3)They Don’t have Democracy
By alternating these three excuses, they’ve kept us in eternal war, making us poorer and less free for generations.
yoyohop,
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You should add “terrorism” and “see something, say something” to your list of excuses that have made us poorer and less free.
you lost…shut up. Didn’t say a word when Obama did it….Hypocrite
Mark is proud to not support our troops, proud not to support the thousands of Iranians in prison and that have been killed in Iran, Mark is proud to not support the defense of all the Gulf nations and Israel including our Nato allies in Europe that were threatened by Iran’s leadership and ideology of Death to all infidels, Mark is proud to not support the Iranian women subjugated by the Iran Regime for 47 years, and finally Mark is proud to not support our troops who are carrying out this righteous mission. Proving once again, Mark does not support the USA but only his Trump deranged colleagues. Way to go Mark – while I am not surprised your spineless character and despicable actions disgust me.
Boneguy,
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Congressman Mark DeSaulnier is way too busy representing those of us in the 10th District by working extremely hard to name a Concord Post Office after a dead car salesman, covering up the congressional slush fund payments for sexual harassment and sexual abuse by members of Congress and their staff members, and not living up to his oath of office as he’s instructed his staff that the First and Fourth Amendment Rights of his 10th District constituents don’t apply in his office, so, he really doesn’t have the time to be bothered with Iran.
To the Black Knight – True he is busy, you reminded me isn’t he having a “women’s forum” or symposium? Perhaps he will explain why his vote to NOT SUPPORT Iranian women’s rights? As I said he is a disgusting hypocrite who trolls for power all day long and not for us.
After reading Mr. DeSaulnier’s statement and giving it more consideration than it deserves, I have come to the conclusion that feeling as he does, his best course of action would be to pound sand.
It might take more effort than a sit down protest but it is at least equally as effective and still requires no mental ability…. none, at all… so he’s the right man for the job.
not worth my time with this spineless jellyfish anymore.
Mark has TDS plain and simple. Mark all you are is a Democrat puppet. Do you fly a Iranian flag at your house.
Mark,
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Congress has given away their power to the Executive Branch for the last 80 years. You’ve been in Congress for 11+ years, your party had the majority for 4 of those years, so, why didn’t you and your party take back ALL of the powers that has been ceded to the presidency over the last 80 years? You did NOTHING to take back Congressional power when you had the opportunity to do so, but now you complain about Congressional Republicans having ceded Congressional power to the Executive. You’re a hypocrite!!! The first thing you should do is live up to your oath of office, which you’re failing at, when you’ve mastered your oath, then you should set about tackling our problems.