"Why of course the people don’t want war...But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship ... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they’re being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.” - Nazi leader Hermann Goering, Nuremberg, 1946
"Everything about this war has been poorly planned, badly thought out. Apart from which it is illegal.
It is unlawful for the United States to enter into a war without an authorization for use of military force or permission from Congress."
- Ali Velshi, MSNOW, Yesterday
"The
only reason Trump ran was to live jail free for the rest of his life. He got
that. Now it’s fun time for him - use the military toys to bomb countries he
hates, push friends to the edge by tariffing them, send love letters to Putin,
binge on Cheese burgers as he enjoys the sight of bombs creating mayhem, insult
anybody he wants. That’s always been his idea of fun -" - WaPo Comment
The recent WSJ op-ed ('Partisanship on Iran is Dangerous', Mar. 13, p. A13) by former Gore lawyer David Boies (in the Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore) at first had me looking at the byline for yet another pro-Trump Reepo troll. I mean the hallmarks of foolishness were there to see, from asserting;
'No sensible person wants a war, a president least of all."
Failing to grasp that the five-time draft dodger and felon occupying the White House is no normal president. Indeed he's deranged and the first felon to land in the Oval thanks to stupid, hoodwinked voters. This is a depraved character whose incompetence, recklessness and bestiality know no bounds. Indeed, we only learned Friday night in the WSJ lead story ('Trump Knew The Risk Of Iran Blocking The Strait of Hormuz- He Still Went To War) that:
"Before the U.S. went to war, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told President Trump that an American attack could prompt Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz. But Trump shrugged it off. He knew the risks but didn't care.
Caine said in several later briefings that U.S. officials had long believed Iran would deploy mines, drones and missiles to close the world’s most vital shipping lane, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. But again Trump wasn't moved to reconsider his yen for conflict."
Trump's fecklessness, disloyalty and irresponsibility extend to giving aid and comfort to Putin- including removing sanctions on access to Russian oil, especially after we learned Russia was giving Iran intelligence to target U.S. military sites, e.g.
Russia is giving Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say - The Washington Post
So he's helping an enemy already involved in targeting our own troops. Sorry, Boies, you cannot be both a traitor and a respected wartime president. And no sentient citizen or party can back such a person who plays both sides of the fence, as well as spewing lies out of his piehole like he breathes, e.g.
by Thom Hartmann | March 11, 2026 - 5:02am | permalink
— from The Hartmann Report
We got more lies this morning from the Pentagon press briefing. They’re now up to 17 different rationalizations for the attack on Iran, none of which makes sense.
To paraphrase Rod Serling, consider what happened in Minab, Iran.
A Tomahawk cruise missile, an American weapon, a weapon that Iran doesn’t own and can’t fire, struck a girls’ elementary school. One hundred and seventy-five people are dead, most of them little girls who showed up that morning to learn to read.
And Donald Trump stood in front of cameras and said Iran did it. He lied. About dead children. Without blinking. And his crew backed him up, even knowing it was a lie.
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Indeed, so after the Trumper warmongers hurled a Tomahawk cruise missile at a school, slaughtering 175 school children (mostly girls 6 and 7), the orange pig wouldn't even own up to it or apologize. Simply lying and claiming it was "Iran's Tomahawk"! The evidence is now indisputable that nothing Trump or his regime claims can be trusted. For reference, the latest whopper from the orange fungus is that he has "taken out all the military assets on Kharg Island". No way in hell, Bozo.
So why back these fuckers in a war that is totally illegal besides being a 'wag the dog' distraction? And for which American taxpayers can't expect a scintilla of truth? See e.g. any or all of the following videos which get outside the media propaganda:
US COLONEL’S DIRE WARNING: TRUMP IS ‘LIKE HITLER’ & BIBI ‘MAY USE NUKES’ | The Kyle Kulinski Show
Daniel Davis Explains The Disaster We're In
Total IDIOTS Are Leading America’s War In Iran
America Can't Pay Its Debt — So It's Going to War Instead | Prof. Jiang Xueqin
US Has No Strategy, Trump Is Delusional: Jeffrey Sachs | West Asia Conflict | N18V
Iran Doesn't Need a Single Missile to Collapse the American Empire | Prof. Jiang Xueqin
IRAN IS HOLDING BACK — And That’s Terrifying | Col. Douglas Macgregor
So given the tsunami of Trump's lies and evidence of his insanity and incompetence why should we support this traitor and felon? Why believe a goddamned word he or anyone in his criminal administration spouts which let us recall- began their bloody rampage on the small-scale blowing fisherman's boats out of the waters off Venezuela.
And the propaganda is one of the worst aspect, including - in the case of the attacks on the fishing boats - claiming they carried drugs, even when no evidence was offered. (And after Trump himself pardoned a former Honduran cocaine distributor)
Much of this was recently summed up by Lawrence O'Donnell on Last Word:
Lawrence: Trump's Iran war propaganda videos show the depths of his depravity
And this is just the tip of the iceberg of the lies dedicated to bamboozling millions of citizens into supporting Trump. which now includes David Boies.
The latest trope spieled out is that the U.S. may send ground troops to seize Kharg Island - an equally terrible idea that promises even more hellacious costs and unintended consequences in this god-awful illegal war. E.g
Seyed M. Marandi: Threat of Seizing Kharg Island & the Use of Nuclear Weapons
As many others have also noted, Trump raced into this conflict with zero preparation or thought, believing it would be a cakewalk like Venezuela. Indeed, Atlantic journalist David Frum has argued this war is based on Trump's "whim" - no serious, higher purpose like getting rid of Iran nuclear weapon capability, i.e.
David Frum: Iran War Is Based on Trump’s Whim | Amanpour and Company
What will it take to get flakes like David Boies - pushing this support for Trump's war- to see the light? I don't know, short of a session of ECT. Consider this next Boies take:
"What is harder to understand and particularly troubling for our country is opposition rooted simply in antipathy to Trump himself. We used to say that politics stops at the water's edge. That was never completely true: the willingness to bludgeon a president over foreign policy is as old as Thomas Jefferson when Vice-President. Yet for most of our history we have given the president the benefit of the doubt"
Yeah, Boies. But NOT Traitors or Felons! A traitor who tried to overthrow the 2020 elections and actually incited a crowd to insurrection. A convicted felon who's already broken more laws since his bastardized inauguration - when he made sure not to place his hand on the bible. Probably aware already how many times he planned to violate his oath to defend the Constitution.
Sorry, but he gets NO "benefit of the doubt". Because there is no doubt he is a liar and criminal first and foremost.
Let's also recall this swine once referred to soldiers killed in war as "losers" and "suckers" See:
Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are 'Losers ... - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/
According to the piece:
"When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” .....In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed."
Yeah, Boies, read it! And then riddle me why I ought to support this Turd in a war he would never have fought in himself? (And likely would prevent his son Barron from entering - say as part of ground forces to invade Kharg island. Of course, Trump lied and denied he ever said those things, but we have eye witnesses who were there and insisted he did - like Gen. John Kelly - who I believe any day before believing a word out of Trump's piehole. Especially after Kelly commented on Trump's praise of Hitler,
So no, Boies. do not ask Dems to support this lying felon, traitor and Hitler lover. The Dems' main patriotic role now is to pull the plug on all further Pentagon funding for this fiasco, and that means a filibuster. This is needed after the reckless criminal regime has already blown over $11 billion in the last twelve days.
At the end of his sorry op-ed Boies offers this chestnut:
"America's national security is too important to hold hostage to partisanship. We Democrats need to begin by asking what our position would be if the action had been taken by Mr. Clinton. Mr. Obama or Mr. Biden."
First of all, none of them are traitors. None tried to stop an election or encouraged an insurrection based on lies. None of those three either was a convicted felon so we would expect them to abide y the Constitution and the body of law as opposed to flouting it. Including slaughtering hundreds in small fishing boats - even in one case when there were survivors seeking help. We would also expect, certainly I would, that all would have gone to congress before launching a war freighted with disaster and global consequences such as this Iran war.
So, in fact this nation's national security is being held hostage by the criminal in the White H0use, and his gang of lackeys including the Pentagon's pom-pom boy and dry drunk Pete Hegseth. Remove Trump, either under the 25th amendment or impeachment and we can talk America's national security, Boies.
Trump, aka Dotard, is now so damned delirious he believes he can cajole European allies into sending "warships" to help him break the Iranian chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz. But why would they risk their own ships and forces to solve a problem they didn't create? And as the FT's Gideon Rachman notes he was of the danger. As Rachman also observes, it is simply not in Trump's power to simply declare victory and sashay away. The Iranians now know this fight is existential - a fight to the death - and they will use every weapon at their disposal to prevent it. That includes limpet mines dropped from small boats, Shahed drones and targeting desalination plants.
Let's also recall these are the same allies who were the recipients of tariffs, threats and insults from the orange crapper. To me, they know which side their 'bread is buttered ' on and it's the side minus Trump. Anyone siding with Boies or similar clueless buffoons ought to read this:
See Also:
How Trump Destroyed the Aura of the Wartime President - The New York Times
Excerpt:
Donald Trump must envy George W. Bush for the cultural
compliance he got while dragging America to war in Iraq.
If you didn’t live through it, it’s hard to convey the
atmosphere of stifling conformity that choked the country in the run-up to that
disaster. Much of the Democratic Party fell in line; authorization for military
force against Iraq passed the Senate 77 to 23. Phil Donahue was fired by MSNBC
for giving voice to the antiwar movement. Artists were canceled for expressing
their opposition.
When, on the eve of the invasion in March 2003, Natalie
Maines, the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, denounced Bush from a London
stage, the fallout nearly buried the band. Radio stations boycotted their music
and two Colorado D.J.s who played their songs were suspended. Once one of the
most popular country acts in America, the band fell out of the Billboard Top
40.
The same month, when the documentarian Michael Moore gave an
antiwar speech at the Oscars, he was met by loud boos in addition to applause.
“One pundit after another was saying, ‘Well, that’s the end of Michael Moore,’”
he told The
New York Times.
Trump has received no such deference for his adventurism in
Iran, so he’s trying to force it. On Sunday night, during a tirade on his Truth
Social website, the president attacked The Wall Street Journal for reporting on an Iranian military strike against
American planes in Saudi Arabia, and called on other news outlets to be charged
with “TREASON.”
Rarely in modern history has an American administration made
such blatantly authoritarian efforts to subdue its critics. Such naked coercion
is a screaming sign of democratic breakdown. But we shouldn’t lose sight of how
Trump is failing to bend the country to his will.
And:
by Sarah K. Burris | March 13, 2026 - 5:34am | permalink
— from Alternet
A former top Pentagon employee is blaming American "blood lust" that he says comes from "the top" as a key reason the U.S. is not only at war, but also bombed a girls' school that killed 168 people, primarily children.
Retired Master Sgt. Wes J. Bryant previously conducted a kind of war-risk assessment for the military, serving as the Pentagon Civilian Harm Policy Adviser and Analyst. On Thursday, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked how the Iran school bombing could have been avoided.
Under the previous administration, there were about 200 people on the team that extended beyond the Pentagon to the entire national security apparatus. At the Pentagon specifically, there were about 30-35 on the team.
They were deemed "woke" and cut under President Donald Trump's administration. For Bryant, the cut was likely made because the first two words in the department's name included "civilian protection."
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And:
by Adam Lynch | March 11, 2026 - 5:23am | permalink
— from Alternet
An international policy expert says it’s no longer a matter of which direction President Donald Trump plans to take his self-started Middle Eastern war — it’s about a president desperately trying to hide the truth of his stupidity.
“… [E]ven the war supporters are realizing that this was a horrible idea,” Duss told Wajahat Ali on Ali’s “Left Hook” podcast. “And I think this is a particularly dangerous moment because now they're frantically trying to find ways not to have to admit that they're a bunch of morons, which means that they're going to argue for escalation. There's no other option.”
“I mean, the other option is admitting that they were wrong. And as we know, that is something that does not happen when you're a Washington war hawk who loves war. The only answer is more war. If the war didn't work, it's because we didn't war hard enough,” said Duss, who served as president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and later as foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) before becoming executive vice president of the Center for International Policy.
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And:
by Elizabeth Preza | March 15, 2026 - 5:25am | permalink
— from Alternet
President Donald Trump keeps calling the U.S. operation in Iran “a little excursion,” that will keep the United States out of war. But one Marine Corps veteran says it’s clear Trump has no strategy beyond his chaotic messaging as the war in Iran enters its third week.
As the Guardian reported Saturday, the Iran war’s “timelines and goals are also continually shifting.”
Trump Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth “has said it is up to the president ‘whether it’s the beginning, the middle or the end’ of the war,” the Guardian notes. “But Trump has been all over the map on this question.”
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And:
by Elliott Negin | March 13, 2026 - 5:08am | permalink
On Christmas Day in 1997, Wag the Dog, a dark political satire directed by Barry Levinson and co-written by David Mamet, opened in theaters across the country. Hardly typical Christmas fare, the movie centered on crisis-management expert Conrad Brean, played by Robert De Niro, and Hollywood producer Stanley Motss, played by Dustin Hoffman, who fabricate a war to distract public attention from a presidential sex scandal.
Sound familiar?
In the film’s opening scene, presidential adviser Winifred Ames (Anne Heche) and other administration staff summon Brean to the White House to help clean up a mess. The president had just met with a group of teenage Firefly Girls from Santa Fe, they explain, and one of them expressed an interest in seeing a Frederick Remington sculpture in the Oval Office. The president escorted her there and sexually assaulted her.
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And:
by Thom Hartmann | March 12, 2026 - 5:18am | permalink
— from The Hartmann Report
Eight of our American service members are dead and over 140 wounded because Iran’s military has suddenly gotten really good at targeting our soldiers, Airmen, and Marines. News reports say they’ve been able to hit us with such precision because Russia is using their extraordinary spy satellite, spy plane, and advanced radar capabilities to help Iran’s military.
The Washington Post, which first reported on this, quoted a Russian military expert as saying that Iran is now “making very precise hits on early-warning radars or over-the-horizon radars,” seeming to validate the concern. The article added:
“Iran possesses only a handful of military-grade satellites, and no satellite constellation of its own, which would make imagery provided by Russia’s much more advanced space capabilities highly valuable — particularly as the Kremlin has honed its own targeting after years of war in Ukraine…”
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And:
The Insidious Danger Of Propaganda And How It Has Infected Brains And Threatened Our Democracy
