The Iran War: Week Three

     Our nation is led by war criminals. That's the long and the short of it.

     Their war crimes started last year when we'd begun bombing fishing boats in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela and maybe even before that. Of course, all this mayhem to which a horrified world has played witness these past two-plus weeks is being carried out by two frauds and career criminals who, by all rights, ought to be in a prison cell.

     And the joint opening salvo the US and Israel is still, by all accounts, the worst.

     That was on February 28th when we'd begun bombing Iran. We were ostensibly aiming for an Iranian naval base and wound up bombing a girl's elementary school. Obviously the school had no connection to the IRGC but, apparently, neither we nor Israel cared very much. At last count, the death toll at the school stands at 175, mostly children.

     While our officials aren't sniping at and threatening journalists and news outlets, they refuse to talk about the school bombing in Minab, Iran. They're, as always, hiding behind the always-convenient dodge that we're "investigating", even though we're doing no such thing.

     I could go on and on about how illegal this war is, at how criminally feckless is our worthless, supine Congress and how it's surrendered its Article Two powers to this White House. I could talk about the shifting, conflicting rationales, with us getting into yet another proxy war for Israel, the complete lack of an exit strategy.

     I could also mention the arrogance of this criminal junta for not putting in even an iota of effort toward shoring up support for this war either in the press or the grassroots. At least the Bush administration put in a lot of effort to lie us into the Iraq war in 2003. This time around, this fascist junta couldn't care less what the American people think.

     And the Strait of Hormuz is closed (which was precisely what Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine warned him would happen) and we're lying about that. No, it isn't, the government is saying but the oil isn't getting through (which is why some California gas stations are charging over $8 for a gallon of gas). Trump is claiming that Iran's military is smashed, despite Iran having having one of the strongest militaries in the Middle East and one that won't be destroyed in a few days. So Trump spent the weekend begging our allies to reopen the Strait that he claims is still open. Guess what? This so-called Coalition of the Willing isn't so willing, after all.

     "Doesn't matter," Trump blustered, "We can do it alone. We don't need anyone."

     Russia certainly isn't going to help. Why should they? The lack of Iranian oil getting on the market means petrodollars are once again flowing into Russia's coffers, which means they can finance their endless war with Ukraine for the foreseeable future. Because everything Trump does somehow benefits Russia.