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As of this writing, the United States military appears to have all of its assets in place for a major attack on Iran. Over the past several days we have seen unprecedented re-orientation of US vast military might from the coast of California to Qatar and everything in-between.
President Trump is set to take the United States into a “pre-emptive” war against a country that has not attacked us nor has it threatened us. He is doing so while explicitly denigrating his own entire Intelligence Community, which continues to maintain that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon nor does it already possess WMDs.
(Remember we went to war just over 20 years ago on the neocon lie that Iraq possessed WMDs?)
This exchange happened just this afternoon:
Reporter: “Your intelligence community says Iran isn’t building a nuke.”
Trump: “They’re wrong. Who said that?”
Reporter: “Your DNI, Tulsi Gabbard.”
Trump: “She is wrong.”
The President’s spokesperson yesterday again made the claim, refuted by the entire US Intelligence Community, that Iran was just “a couple of weeks” away from a nuclear bomb.
Journalist Saagar Enjeti questioned that assertion from the Trump Press Secretary and the response was astonishing. As he recently wrote:
So President Trump has tossed aside the collective judgement of the entire US Intelligence Community in favor of the “assessment” of a foreign intelligence service whose motto is literally, “By way of deception you shall engage in war.”
It’s even worse than that. According to Sean Davis, the CEO of the ultra pro-MAGA publication, The Federalist:
I have also been told by current and former senior national security officials that CIA claims about Iran’s nuclear progress come directly from Mossad—verbatim talking points was one phrase I heard—and don’t include U.S. intelligence on the matter.
This is in reference to CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s bizarre recent claim that Iran is “on the one yard line” of getting a nuclear weapon and would for sure want to score a touchdown.
Ratcliffe’s CIA should have taken out a footnote on the Intelligence Community’s March assessment if he did not agree that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon, but he chose to repeat the talking points of a foreign intelligence service to undermine his own country’s intelligence services. Instead he joined in on Trump’s kneecapping of Gabbard.
[Note: Since this article first appeared, Gabbard seems to have “gotten in line” with Ratcliffe, Trump, and the Mossad.]
Folks this is going to be the biggest war in generations if Trump decides to pull the trigger. No wonder the Framers of our Constitution were determined to not convey such awesome power in the hands of one man, but rather granted it to The People (the ones who would be doing the fighting and dying) through their elected representatives.
Something is very wrong in our country right now and all patriots and men and women of goodwill are duty-bound to do something about it.
But what can we do? One thing you can do is “vote with your feet” and join us in August for the ninth annual Ron Paul Institute DC Conference (at the Dulles Airport).
All eyes are on us, and if CSPAN again chooses to cover our conference, what will the neocons say when the camera pans to show an empty room? They will smirk and smile, believing all the gas has run out of the anti-war and non-interventionist movement.
