“Every day is tinged with sadness while living under the thrall of a warmongering racist rapist who’s gutting America and cooking our planet for all future generations.”

Trump tore up Obama’s agreement to rid Iran of nuclear capability. Then, Trump claimed to have obliterated their nuclear capability just a few months ago. He promised no new wars. No money for healthcare, no money for Americans, plenty for war on Americans and now Iranians.

“We killed a bad man, that’s good! How dare you question this!,” I keep being told on social.

You have faith in Trump, these days? Then I have a bridge to sell you.

If you think Trump, or Israel, are doing this out of love for the people of Iran, who do deserve peace, then you’ve got another thing coming. Needless to say Trump doesn’t care about murdered Iranian protestors—as you know too well, I hope, he hates protesters. He doesn’t care about the Iranian people. He doesn’t care about anyone except himself.

He tore up Obama’s agreement to rid Iran of nuclear development. He claims to have destroyed their nuclear capability just a few months ago when last he attacked them. He’s bloated our military budget and paid for ICE with our healthcare.

War is rarely something that helps people on the ground, particularly when it is a Trump or Bibi making the war.

Your criticism is fair but a simplistic take, and not fully honest. No one should be mourning the murder of this tyrant.

But 47 years ago our intervention killed their democracy and led to rule by hard-liners. And all of us who are honest and aware know that Trump and Bibi’s intentions are not limited to this murder of an old bad man, and they are not supportive of democracy at home, and there is no exit plan, and Trump’s gutting of the US while pumping many billions (500 into military alone, not counting ICE) into aggression. Pretty interesting for the self-proclaimed Peace President.

But you know all that. You’re just hitting me with a strawman.

“We live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there’s remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost.

But when you have a discussion about whether or not we can assist people who are suffering, then suddenly we become very cost-conscious.”

– Prof. Andrew Bacevich

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

~ General Dwight Eisenhower, 1953