Seth Abramson

I wish there were a mechanism for soldiers' families to tell America how much they don't want their loved ones to die for this BS. I recognize there really isn't—as those families would be worried about downstream effects on their men and women in uniform—but maybe if it were anonymous yet verified?

Warner: "There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."

Sorry, you don't get to give Trump CREDIT for creating a space-time continuum in which we will never be able to check if your presumptions (which is what they are) would have been correct

That is a tautology, and I am not here for it

You shouldn't be either

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MARCO RUBIO:

The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran without us and then Iran retaliating

The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran without us

The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran

The imminent threat was from Israel

So the evidence of Donald Trump actually *caring* about the Iranian nuclear program being stopped is not almost zero, or approximately zero, or nearly zero, or in the general vicinity of zero, or approaching zero, but *exactly* zero. I don't make the rules, reality does.

Well, no, because Iranian enrichment dropped to zero after the 2015 nuclear deal, then Trump because he hated Barack Obama for being Black decided to exit that deal, and as you can see from any chart you look at in a Google search the result of Trump doing that was that Iran restarted enrichment.

NOTE: This isn’t just a word game. The Trump administration has now admitted that *Israel* was the nation that *created* the threat to the United States by declaring it was going to illegally attack Iran just because. *America* feared the consequences of what *Israel* was doing.

MARCO RUBIO:

The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran without us and then Iran retaliating

The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran without us

The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran

The imminent threat was from Israel

This statement by Marco Rubio is a thing of beauty. No notes. It can be taken exactly as is and dropped into Orwell's 1984. I believe the correct Homeric adjective for military reasoning like this is "Hell-kissed."

Get thee to the Smithsonian, war crime-speak.

Jesus. F*cking. Christ.

We were promised a historically competent Pentagon, and were told that we could judge how competent the Pentagon was going to be by how many pull-ups Pete Hegseth could do and the fact that soldiers would stop wearing beards.

Turns out these toxic turds can't even read maps.

Jesus. F*cking. Christ.

YouTube video by Seth Abramson Hounds, “Third Time’s the Charm”

If you have a friend—perhaps even a congressman—spreading the lie that Trump has been trying to keep us safe from Iranian nukes, send them this. Maybe they learn better through music.

Obama had Iran's nuclear program caged—but Israel wanted a forever war.

Siri, show me how to end the war in Iran immediately

TRUMP (2/28): this will take 2 weeks
TRUMP (3/1): this will take 4 weeks
TRUMP (3/2): this will take 5 weeks
TRUMP (4/1): April fools, it's actually a forever war like I promised never to do

At some point even American corporate media needs to just bite the bullet and publish an accurate headline noting that this guy absolutely loves war crimes and is looking forward to doing some war crimes in Iran

Because that is exactly the translation of what he's saying here

Food for thought for American troops

Only one in four Americans approve of the US strikes that killed Iran's leader, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. About half of respondents — including one in four Republicans — said they believe Trump is too willing to use military force to advance US interests reut.rs/4aSiAoF

Is anyone else as confused by this Pentagon statement as I am? We were told that the Israelis and [we] Americans had achieved air superiority over Iran, but *now* we are being told that the Kuwaitis shot down 3 F-15s over Kuwait that were...dogfighting with the Iranian Air Force?

If Iran still has a functional enough air force that it can project force out-of country, is it possible the IDF and USAF are overstating their air superiority to make the invasion sound more successful than it has been?

PS: Iran isn't a country you can beat solely from the air.

Is anyone else as confused by this Pentagon statement as I am? We were told that the Israelis and [we] Americans had achieved air superiority over Iran, but *now* we are being told that the Kuwaitis shot down 3 F-15s over Kuwait that were...dogfighting with the Iranian Air Force?

In every way that counts, America is almost certain to lose the Second Iran War

We have no endgame, the public does not support this, our weapons stockpiles are depleting fast, we are not set up for a long war and we have virtually no understanding of our adversary or the region

How exactly are we supposed to respond to Pete Hegseth angrily snapping, "We didn't start this war!" when they *bloody well did* and and the whole world watched it happen on television?

Does he not actually know that by every conceivable standard America is the aggressor here?

The new Iranian leader just wrote:

“TRUMP HAS BETRAYED AMERICA FIRST TO ADOPT ISRAEL FIRST. It is indeed very sad that he is sacrificing American treasure and blood to advance Netanyahu’s illegitimate expansionist ambitions.”

Do any Americans—of any political stripe—disagree?

America is now going to see just how empty all the tough talk from Pete Hegseth was. Trump installed him because he knew Hegseth would be willing to execute martial law in the U.S. if asked. But now our troops are going to suffer for how *woefully unqualified* Hegseth always was.

3 U.S. Planes Are Shot Down in ‘Friendly Fire’ in Kuwait, U.S. Military Says

What an utter disaster Trump's War is.

And who would have guessed, with fourth-string former junior high school quarterback turned town wino Pete Kegstand at the helm.

May God protect our troops—God knows this White House doesn't give a shit about them.

3 U.S. Planes Are Shot Down in ‘Friendly Fire’ in Kuwait, U.S. Military Says

What an utter disaster Trump's War is.

And who would have guessed, with fourth-string former junior high school quarterback turned town wino Pete Kegstand at the helm.

May God protect our troops—God knows this White House doesn't give a shit about them.