“They said: “He will start a war.” I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.”
Donald Trump has chosen to bomb Iran in a joint operation with Israel. In Trump’s view, Iran forced the decision on themselves.
This was after he campaigned and promised no more wars.
Voters said they supported Trump because he tells it like it is.
Like that time while campaigning in 2016 when Trump claimed he was against Gulf War II. Trump said, “I’m the only one on this stage that said: ‘Do not go into Iraq. Do not attack Iraq.’ Nobody else on this stage said that. And I said it loud and strong.”
Facts don’t support Trump’s assertion. No evidence exists that he was against that war until 2004. Trump never let facts deter him.
Same with his supporters. So many of them are applauding this war. Yet, they add, the main reason they voted for Trump was the economy. They wanted lower prices. Trump promised them he would lower prices on day one.
But follow this cause-and-effect logic. The war will cause prices to increase. Within hours of the Iran War’s beginning, shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz dropped. Oil prices went up.
When oil prices rise, so do manufacturing and shipping costs, consumer goods, and food prices.
Trump and his backers think the bombing of Iran will make the world safer, just as they said when Bush invaded Iraq and Afghanistan — the war which Trump said he was against.
Many, including Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Secretary of Defense, are saying that this war is not like the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. They think it will last weeks, not years.
Sure. That’s exactly what the Bush administration said in 2002.
Rumsfeld: It Would Be A Short War
We’ve learned so much since then.
Haven’t we?
Michael Seidel, writer 
Let’s see, “America first! No new wars!” uh huh. Well, unless it is another diversionary tactic away from Epstein and some tricky elections coming up. Then there’s the unique stance of “It was all my idea” and “I had nothing to do with this it was x, y, z, not me.” Yes, diesel fuel is already up 17%. Thankfully, due to his brilliance with tariffs, no other prices are already sky high. [do I need to flag all of the sarcasm fonts?]Or, his plan was “regime change.” No other plan. Just that. Of course a general said, “Don’t do it!” before it happened, but Trump and Vance et al, in their experience and training in military strategy, knew better. What could be more simple? Drop a bomb, right? One and done.Israel is saying Iran is an “existential threat.” Ohkay then. I guess that’s pretty good reasoning for any nation to drop a bomb. I wonder if Greenland is feeling its existential threat enough…I could have sworn I learned in school that Congress declared wars. All of that, though, if you listen to Iranians who have fled the country years ago, they are all thrilled. These are folks who now live in Australia and around the globe. And the Ayatollah killed a currently unknown number of normal, innocent people who were guilty of protesting, and those numbers are estimated as high as 30K in 2 months.Did it take a megalomaniac idiot to illegally manage to do something? If so, this will only embolden him more, if that’s possible.
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Come out with it. What are you trying to say? LOL – good reply. Should be its own post. Cheers
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:scuffs toe of shoe back and forth into the dirt: Yeah. I have some energy around such things and rarely have a place to put it. 🙂
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OK, I put that in paragraph formats so it wasn’t a wall of text. Thanks, WP.
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We’ve learned so much since then.
Haven’t we?
Well, it seems as if we ought to have. But damned if I know; it doesn’t appear so.
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Apparently we haven’t learned a damn thing since Bush!!! Felon Trump is a murderer. Full stop.
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