A resurfaced clip from 2011 is putting former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi back in the spotlight — and not in a flattering way. In the video, Pelosi plainly defended President Barack Obama’s decision to strike Libya without prior congressional authorization.

When asked directly whether the president needed Congress’s approval for the Libya operation, Pelosi answered simply: “Yes,” he could proceed without it.

Fast-forward to today, and Pelosi is taking the opposite stance toward President Donald Trump’s recent strikes on Iran, which were carried out jointly with Israel and reportedly killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“This starts another unnecessary war,” Pelosi wrote on X, insisting that “the Constitution is clear” and that Congress must authorize any military action leading the nation into war. She is now backing a war powers resolution aimed at limiting Trump’s authority to continue military operations against Iran without explicit approval from lawmakers.

The contradiction is drawing attention because Trump’s action closely mirrors Obama’s 2011 intervention in Libya under Operation Odyssey Dawn. That campaign targeted the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, whose forces were advancing on rebel-held cities such as Benghazi. Obama justified the strikes as a humanitarian mission carried out with allies through NATO.

“We struck regime forces approaching Benghazi to save that city and the people within it,” Obama said at the time.

Gaddafi survived the U.S.-led strikes and was later killed by Libyan rebels that October. Pelosi, who defended Obama’s authority then, has not explained why she believes Trump’s actions now require congressional authorization when Obama’s did not.

Her office declined to comment on whether she sees a meaningful difference between the two cases — leaving critics to argue that the standard appears to depend less on constitutional principle and more on who occupies the White House.