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US and Israel Launch "Pre-Emptive" Attack Against Iran
From Heather Cox Richardson, bolded text added by me.
"The Trump administration has been able to articulate neither a clear reason for what Trump calls a 'war' against Iran nor a goal to be accomplished by the war that is costing $1 billion a day. On February 19, less than ten days before Trump started bombing Iran, Trump told his 'Board of Peace' that '[w]e’ve done the biggest thing of all. We have peace in the Middle East right now.' Today Trump told reporters that if he hadn’t struck Iran, it would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks, a conclusion U.S. intelligence agencies reject.
"Trump told reporters today that 'we’re doing very well on the war front, to put it mildly,' rating it 15 on a scale of 1 to 10. But Americans stranded in Middle Eastern countries are desperate to get out, and the government has not been able to help them."
"Notably, Trump had no answer for why there was no plan to evacuate Americans. Instead, he made it clear he is worried about experts’ assessment that the U.S. is low on high-end munitions and interceptors. According to Ellen Mitchell of The Hill, the U.S. is low on those weapons not because it has helped to supply Ukraine, but because it 'blew through 25 percent of its stockpile over just a few days of operations against Iran in June 2025.' And before that operation, the U.S. military used $200 million worth of munitions in three weeks of attacks on the Houthis in Yemen, a bombing campaign that did little to change the Houthis’ behavior."
"Despite the administration’s apparent lack of either planning or goals in its attack on Iran, Senate Republicans today refused to rein in Trump’s attack on Iran with a war powers resolution to bring the war to a stop. While some said they were nervous about the apparent lack of a plan for the conflict, others said it was imperative to demonstrate support for the troops by supporting the war, regardless of how we got into it."
Maybe I am the one becoming demented. Seems to me that, if Iran developed a nuclear weapon, it would aim it at Israel first, risking retaliation from the US of sufficient nuclear weapons to terminate Iran and the middle east. Haven't nuclear weapons been rendered a last, not first, resort? Even in Israel and Iran? OTOH, an uninhabitable middle east would solve some endless problems and support rapid development of new greener energy sources.
Well, their constituents will hold them responsible anyhow. These weasels cannot walk away from responsibility for enabling trump. Voters will know.
They all voted against the war powers resolution. It is on them.
We know there is no plan. That the situation is utterly unpredictable. And that, using trump's own words, and our intelligence agency's information, Iran was making no effort to dig out their nuclear weapons materials.
This was the work of an addled man, with a god-complex, who has surrounded himself with sycophants.
And, just one more example of what doling out your own rope can lead to. War, inflation, upset markets, falling GDP, weak jobs, protests.
Well then let's rename this "Epic Failure" and throw the entire GOP under the bus. Like Pretti and Good let's just kill all manner of innocents for no reason.
Well, their constituents will hold them responsible anyhow. These weasels cannot walk away from responsibility for enabling trump. Voters will know. ...Yes, voters will know. But will it change anything? For a great many of them, it's against their %%^$#@@!!! RELIGION to vote any other way than for Repugnants. I know MINISTERS who voted for the Orange Cockroach TWICE. In my very own first-hand experience, too many voters are utterly clueless. ...Grown adults who don't even know what the Electoral Goddam College is!!! We need to get rid of it, but too many idiot voters keep electing and re-electing the same turds who will not ever make it happen.
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"The Trump administration has been able to articulate neither a clear reason for what Trump calls
a 'war' against Iran nor a goal to be accomplished by the war that is costing $1 billion a day.
On February 19, less than ten days before Trump started bombing Iran, Trump told his 'Board of Peace'
that '[w]e’ve done the biggest thing of all. We have peace in the Middle East right now.'
Today Trump told reporters that if he hadn’t struck Iran, it would have had a nuclear weapon
within two weeks, a conclusion U.S. intelligence agencies reject.
"Trump told reporters today that 'we’re doing very well on the war front, to put it mildly,' rating it 15 on
a scale of 1 to 10. But Americans stranded in Middle Eastern countries are desperate to get out,
and the government has not been able to help them."
"Notably, Trump had no answer for why there was no plan to evacuate Americans.
Instead, he made it clear he is worried about experts’ assessment that the U.S. is low on
high-end munitions and interceptors. According to Ellen Mitchell of The Hill, the U.S. is low on
those weapons not because it has helped to supply Ukraine, but because it 'blew through 25 percent
of its stockpile over just a few days of operations against Iran in June 2025.'
And before that operation, the U.S. military used $200 million worth of munitions in three weeks of
attacks on the Houthis in Yemen, a bombing campaign that did little to change the Houthis’ behavior."
"Despite the administration’s apparent lack of either planning or goals in its attack on Iran,
Senate Republicans today refused to rein in Trump’s attack on Iran with a war powers resolution
to bring the war to a stop. While some said they were nervous about the apparent lack of a plan
for the conflict, others said it was imperative to demonstrate support for the troops
by supporting the war, regardless of how we got into it."
They all voted against the war powers resolution. It is on them.
We know there is no plan. That the situation is utterly unpredictable. And that, using trump's own words, and our intelligence agency's information, Iran was making no effort to dig out their nuclear weapons materials.
This was the work of an addled man, with a god-complex, who has surrounded himself with sycophants.
And, just one more example of what doling out your own rope can lead to. War, inflation, upset markets, falling GDP, weak jobs, protests.
Like Pretti and Good let's just kill all manner of innocents for no reason.
It has that certain ring to it.
And that's it. End of story. "Concerns" duly noted... let's go home now.
...Yes, voters will know. But will it change anything? For a great many of them, it's against their %%^$#@@!!! RELIGION to vote any other way than for Repugnants. I know MINISTERS who voted for the Orange Cockroach TWICE. In my very own first-hand experience, too many voters are utterly clueless. ...Grown adults who don't even know what the Electoral Goddam College is!!! We need to get rid of it, but too many idiot voters keep electing and re-electing the same turds who will not ever make it happen.