Joel S. Berg

We’ve already spent more on this war than the annual budget of the National School Breakfast Program that feeds 16 million kids every school day.

146,115 more people voted in the Texas Democratic Senate primary than the Republican one. That’s not entirely predictive of the general election, but it’s certainly a good early sign.

The Trump Administration’s Reckless War in Iran Has Already Cost More Than $5 Billion The Trump administration has launched a reckless war of choice in the Middle East, which has already imposed an estimated cost of more than $5 billion on the American taxpayer.

www.americanprogress.org/article/the-.... This could have paid for literally 2 billion school breakfasts for U.S. kids.

Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

If his rich friends can privately fund his ballroom, they can also fund his war in Iran.

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

An absolutely vile fundraising e-email from the President of the United States.

Hegseth just said it’s none of the American people’s business whether we have “boots on the ground” in Iran.

Actually, the American people absolutely deserve to not only know where we are bombing, but also where our ground troops are fighting.

“That’s the way it is.”

“So it goes.”

Ever since the first Iraq War, Pentagon war briefings have repeatedly and grossly fetishized the destructive power of our weapons.

Endless wars? … money is no object.

Feeding hungry American kids … sorry, we have a deficit to worry about and we certainly can’t make billionaires pay their fare share of taxes to pay for that.

Glorifying war — as opposed to explaining the need for national defense activities that are sometimes used reluctantly — is fascist.

Hegseth just admitted that we are not seeking to ensure democracy in Iran.

I assume that Hegseth had no idea that he just quoted the Notorious B.I.G.

That’s still appalling though, on a number of levels.

War isn’t a video game.

In the real world, multitudes of people die, most of whom are innocent civilians, including children and the elderly.

It is likely that the bloody U.S. intervention in Iran will actually harm democratic opposition movements there, giving the government of Iran more supposed justification to violently crush them.

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In 1973, much of the world was rightfully outraged when a number of Arab nations attacked Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest Jewish holiday. We should be equally outraged that Israel and the U.S. attacked Iran during Ramadan, the holiest holiday in Islam.

The Ancient Greek statesman Pericles argued that no leaders should be able to push for war unless their children were in the army.

I don’t think Trump should wage war unless he’s willing to send Barron to fight it.

Most of those supposedly Leftie accounts who are still incensed that Biden and Harris did not do enough to rein in Bibi, are strangely silent on Trump actually teaming up with Bibi to launch a brand new war.

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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor while they were engaging in peace negotiations with the U.S. While our war with Iran is a very different situation, it’s usually problematic for one side to attack during peace negotiations, clearly undermining any future negotiations.

Just a reminder: the top reason that a brutal religious dictatorship has ruled Iran for decades was a backlash against the U.S. previously installing a brutal dictator (the Shah) in Iran.

Isn’t Trump’s latest attack on Iran a tacit admission that Trump previously lied when he claimed our previous attack on Iran entirely wiped out their nuclear program?

While I didn’t agree with either of our two wars in Iraq, both were authorized by Congress after robust national debates (albeit the debate over the second Iraq War was based on false information.)

We shouldn’t be going to war on the basis of one man’s whims, with no Congressional or public debate

How many lives and tax dollars will — again — be wasted on a war waged on the basis of lies?

One life, one dollar, would be too many. But if it be far, far worse than that.

I support democracy in Venezuela, Iran, and everywhere. But unilateral, oil-focused, wars do not advance democracy.

Just a reminder: Venezuela is still being run by the same dictatorial regime as before Trump attacked them. The only real change is that we are not stealing their oil.

So it’s not a stretch to believe that our Iran attacks are also about war, not democracy.