‘Peace’ President Trump Launches another War, This time a Doozy that Could Rival Bush’s Iraq Nightmare

US President Donald Trump, who already shares the title of the 21st Century’s worst perpetrator of genocide along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, can now add the title of worst war criminal of the 21st Century for his completely unprovoked war on Iran, also shared with Netanyahu.

When President Roosevelt took to the radio in 1941 to notify the American people of Japan’s US surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet moored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii he called the blitz by carrier-based aircraft and mini-subs on December 7, “A date that will live in infamy.”

Roosevelt was referring to a Japan’s decision to attack the US without first declaring war, though later research shows that the Japanese government did send such a warning to be delivered to the White House by the Japanese Embassy in Washington, but because of difficulty there in translating the code, it arrived after the attack was already underway.

In Trump’s case, Pentagon planning for this joint attack on Iran by the US and Israel, which began early last November, from the start was meant to be a complete surprise.

As Iran was in no condition to attack the US, even as Trump had assembled the largest naval armada since the launching of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 ,and also ordered half the US Air Force’s fleet of air-worthy bombers and fighter-bombers moved to the Persian Gulf region, this invasion constitutes a “Crime against Peace” under the Geneva Conventions, which is described as “the highest of all war crimes as it contains all others.”

Particularly galling is Trump’s failure to give any credible reason that could justify the attack. In the run-up to to his newist snd biggest war, he spoke about defending the “tens of thousands” of young people being killed by government thugs as they protested the rule of the mullahs. He spoke too of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (killed in an early strike by Israel on his compound) as being being “evil,” and about Iran’s allegedly being “a week away” from having enough U-235 to produce a nuclear bomb (this despite Thump’s boast that Iran’s nuclear program had been “obliterated” by an earlier surprise bombing attack by the US and Israeli planes he had ordered last June), and about Tehran’s being unwilling to submit to inspection of its “nuclear program,” including some of his own.

In any event, none of these explanations for launching a “pre-emptive” war against Iran—with the exception of the wholly absurd claim about the threat of that far-away country being“within days” of building a uranium bomb, a deliberately scarey line which echoes G.W, Bush’s fraudulent excuse for invading Iraq over two decades ago— can justify this latest US Invasion of that sanctions-strangled nation. (Trump’s other claim was that Iran was working on an ICBM that could “reach the United States,” though even if this were true, it would pose no significant threat if the country could only put a conventional warhead on it).

Many, myself included, noting how often presidents have launched wars when their popularity is crashing because of scandal or incompetence (both of which crises Trump faces), are suggesting this is all a bloody and incredibly costly diversion from the increasingly appalling Epstein scandal, in which Trump’s name and image is appearing (or being blacked out) with increasing frequency.

Meanwhile President Trump appears to have no plan or even any “concept of a plan,” should the US-Israel blitz succeed in toppling the Tehran government, to restore order (much less democratic rule) in a nation of 92.5 million people who have been struggling under tyranny of one kind or another for the 73 years since their elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was ousted in a 1953 coup orchestrated by the US and Britain. All Trump has done is advise Iranians to “rise up” and overthrow their leaders. That’s what he called on Venezuelans to do after he bombed their capital city and had US Special Forces kidnap their elected President Nicolas Maduro. Since then our president’s been too busy stealing the Venezuela’s oil to pay any attention to restoring its economy and helping its people put a new government in place (something one hopes that Iranians have noted).

Eventually, Trump should be impeached for this latest war crime, which also violates the US Constitution, which states clearly that unless it is attacked or faces imminent attack, only Congress can authorize the country to launch a war. But at least the inevitable debacle in Iran and in the wider Middle East should keep the US military too busy to invade Cuba — something Trump has threatened to do.

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