From [HERE] and [MORE] Does Puppet Trump think Americans are stupid?
After he announced in a video that “a short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran” to “defend the American people” by eliminating “imminent threats” to Americans at home and abroad, the president then listed some of his reasons for taking the U.S. to war.
Presumably, he would tell us about this threat and just how imminent it was.
Trump said, “For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted ‘Death to America’ and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder, targeting the United States, our troops and the innocent people in many, many countries.”
Okay, but 47 years? Pro-Palestinian protesters in America chant things that are perceived as meaning death to Israel, but no one in either country considers that rhetoric an act of war by the U.S.
What was the president talking about, exactly?
Trump went to the 1979 hostage crisis under President Jimmy Carter. He talked about the 1983 bombing by Iranian proxies of a U.S. marine barrack that killed 241 American servicemen. That was a tragedy dealt with by President Ronald Reagan, who chose to bring American soldiers home. Trump said Iran “knew and were probably involved with the attack on the USS Cole” that happened 26 years ago in 2000, when Bill Clinton was president.
Trump went on to other events including Iranian support for the October 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel by Hamas that took over 1,000 lives and many hostages, including Americans. That happened under President Joe Biden.
But through all his attempted rationalizations at no point did Trump provide a solid, pinpoint—and perhaps most importantly, new—reason for why it was necessary for the U.S. to begin a regime change war at this very moment, something other American presidents did not do when dealing with the Iranian attacks he cited.
Trump’s many “reasons” amounted to really no reason at all. Any intellectually honest observer was left fairly clueless.
Enter Congress. More specifically the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which shared a post on X congratulating the president on “ending” Iran’s “forever war” with the U.S.
I swear I’m not making this up.
“President Trump is ending the forever war that Iran has waged against America for the last 47 years,” the committee’s X account shared, adding “Thank You POTUS.”
So according to this bipartisan committee, a war has been going on between Iran and the U.S. for nearly half a century and Trump’s actions over the weekend were merely a decisive and strong president finally putting an end to it. The balls on these people!
Almost every major poll showed that Americans overwhelmingly did not want the U.S. to go to war with Iran prior to the attacks. Americans were not asked, hypothetically, “Do you want Trump to end the current U.S.–Iran war?” because few to no Americans perceived their country as being in a war with that country. [MORE]
Wolfgang Ischinger, former German diplomat and head of the major European security forum, said Trump has shifted American justifications for the war. According to Ischinger, Washington initially spoke about “regime change” in Iran on the first day of the operation. However, that explanation quickly disappeared from official messaging.
He said the justification changed “like someone changing a shirt,” noting that the idea of regime change now appears only marginally in public statements or has disappeared entirely. [MORE]
