In terms of war the one thing everybody in the world knows is that during the Vietnam war Donald Trump faked up bone spurs as a health condition to avoid being recruited in the US army.
The new loud American warrior who wants to fight everybody had no guts then to actually fight for America as a soldier during the Vietnam war. Today President Donald Trump is being blackmailed and bullied by the only living leader in the world guilty of committing genocide and wiping out hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza in the last three years.
Benjamin Netanyahu was ready to launch another one of his wars on Iran knowing that Iran will respond by attacking US bases in the region and by so doing Israel put America in their pocket and now the US is at war with Iran after being forced into it by Netanyahu and the Israeli government.
How fair is that for the American soldiers being killed? What does it say that even the US Congress and Senate have nothing to say about America going to war and that is all done by one man, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel launched a war on Iran two and a half years ago. That war lasted 12 days and just like now Trump was dragged into that war and after launching their big bombs Trump declared that the Iran nuclear weapon system was “obliterated”. Why go back when everything was all done?
Is this American war on Iran about nuclear weapons really or it is just to help Benjamin Netanyahu stay in office as he faces trials for corruption and other things. How many American soldiers does Trump need to lose their lives to save Netanyahu’s from political oblivion?
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Trump sought to brace the US public for more casualties as he acknowledged the deaths, the first in major operations since he returned to office last year.
In a video address, Trump lamented the deaths but added that “sadly, there will likely be more before it ends.”
“But America will avenge their deaths and deliver the most punishing blow to the terrorists who have waged war against, basically, civilization,” he said.
The US launched preemptive strikes against Iran after learning Israel was about to attack — and American troops in the region faced an imminent threat of retaliation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday.
Rubio made the revelation on Capitol Hill, where he briefed a small group of congressional leaders on the joint US-Israel offensive.
‘There was absolutely an imminent threat,’ Rubio stated. ‘And the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us, and we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded.’
Rubio said the Department of War determined that a defensive posture following an Israeli attack would only open the US to more casualties. Five American soldiers have died so far in combat.
‘We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting higher damage,’ he said.
‘Had we not done so, there would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about how we knew that this was going to happen, and we didn’t act preemptively to prevent more casualties and more loss of life,’ Rubio explained.
The revelation outraged both Democrats and Republicans.
‘Secretary Rubio’s remarks indicate that Israel put U.S. forces in harm’s way by insisting on attacking Iran,’ Congressman Joaquin Castro reacted on X. ‘And the administration was complicit—joining their war instead of talking them down.’
Conservative pundit Matt Walsh wrote: ‘So he’s flat out telling us that we’re in a war with Iran because Israel forced our hand. This is basically the worst possible thing he could have said.’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday that the ‘imminent threat’ that prompted the US to strike Iran was the threat US soldiers would face after Israel’s planned strike on the Middle Eastern country
This photo provided by the White House which has been partially blurred, shows President Donald Trump talking with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, left, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., during Operation Epic Fury on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026
A general view of Tehran with smoke visible in the distance after explosions were reported in the city, on March 02, 2026 in Tehran, Iran
Iran had already prepositioned its missiles and had them on ready alert, the secretary of state claimed.
He did not specify where the missiles were aiming or which US targets would have been within range.
‘Within an hour of the initial attack on the leadership compound, the missile forces in the south and in the north, for that matter, had already been activated to launch. In fact, those had already been pre-positioned.’
Mr. President, did Israel force your hand to launch these strikes against Iran? Did Netanyahu pull the United States into this war? No, I might have forced their hand.
The small cadre of lawmakers being briefed Monday is referred to as the ‘gang of eight,’ and it is comprised of the leaders of both parties in the House and Senate and their respective intelligence committee chairmen.
Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer; House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford and ranking member Jim Himes; and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton and ranking member Mark Warner, were the eight members included in the briefing.
The ‘gang of eight’ was also briefed last week before the strikes.
Still, Democrats across both chambers have decried the Trump administration for not informing more lawmakers of the impending military action against Iran
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If Israel or someone else struck Iran, US soldiers would be targeted, which was considered an ‘imminent threat’ by the Trump administration. US military bases across the Middle East were hit with Iranian strikes following the initial US-Israel offensive
‘The US has two aircraft carrier strike units – amounting to roughly 15,000 soldiers – in the Middle East. Above a Arleigh-Burke class destroyer is seen firing a Tomahwak land attack missile at Iran
‘There’s no law that requires us to do that,’ Rubio told reporters of the complaints.
‘The law says we have to notify them 48 hours after beginning hostilities. We’ve done that. I think the notification went today, but we did notify members of Congress in advance.’
He went on to note how ‘we can’t notify 535 members of Congress,’ likely due to the operational security threat of so many people knowing of a covert military action.
War powers resolutions – legislation aimed at reeling in the President’s authority to unilaterally order strikes – have already been drafted in both the House and Senate.
However, the GOP-controlled Congress has not passed these resolutions, despite large Democratic support and the backing of some Republicans.
Rubio said that though Congress has the right to take a war powers vote, its already happened ‘a bunch of times’ without success.
Even if it did pass, it would likely face legal trouble as no presidential administration – neither Republican or Democratic – has ever said that a war powers resolution is constitutional, Rubio said.
Here is what we saw in the war when Israel just invaded Iran for fun and Trump came to help them. It took 12 days and was nasty for both sides.
Israel keeps yapping on their genocide them when they claim Iran wants to wipe Israel out and yet it is Israel whom the world sees all the time trying to wipe Iran out of the human map because they are not satisfied just wiping out the Palestinians out which they have been doing for 78 years now and still going. They ant Iran added there and they will be very happy.
One of the strangest things during that last war on Iran is that in those 12 days Iran was launching ballistic missiles that were landing on targets and causing chaos in Israel. Netanyahu talks all the time about Iran nuclear weapons but looking at that war the thing that should get Israel scared is that those ballistic missiles are enough for Iran to defend itself against Israel.
After the big Iraq war George Bush launched the biggest military operation in Iran and it was carried out by the new Iraqi leaders. They were taking Iran for Bush and their link was to get the Kurdish population in Iran to support them. More than one million Iranians were killed in that war and it looked like Iran was over.
The Iranians refused to lose and turned the war over and pretty much took Iraq. There are 80 million citizens of Iran and Israel and the US doing a genocide there is practically impossible. Iran is not Gaza, Israel and the US will find that out soon.
These goofs are not coming back to Iran because they are the reason the present Iran government exists. Those promoting the Shah back to Iran are wasting their time.
And this is Netanyahu at work in Gaza with Donald Trump help.
For how long must this continue?
The Vietnam war was a tragedy for US. Do they want another one?
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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of state, looks on, on the day he testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard© provided by AlterNet
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Capitol Hill on Tuesday in an effort to head off a potential “revolt” from lawmakers angered by the Trump administration’s decision to attack Iran without notifying Congress — let alone without seeking its authorization — a move critics say violates the U.S. Constitution.
The House and Senate are set to vote this week on resolutions to put guardrails on President Donald Trump‘s ability to use unilateral military force, Politico reports.
Secretary Rubio on Monday said that “Congress can vote on whatever they want. But there’s no law that requires us” to obtain congressional approval before going to war.
“Look, that is fine if they want to take a war powers vote,” Rubio told reporters. “They can do that. They’ve done that a bunch of times. But there’s no – people keep saying that we have – there’s no law that requires the President to have done anything with regards to this. To begin with, no presidential administration has ever accepted the War Powers Act as constitutional – not Republican presidents, not Democratic presidents.”
What is that guy talking about? Even he doesn’t know that. Fair enough. Time to move on.
American citizens forced their government to end the terrible war in Vietnam. It is going to be the same with this American invasion of Iran.
President Trump is not sending any soldiers to Iran. At least he is not that stupid. Israel is not sending any of its soldiers except Mossad to Iran. Practically this is a dead war as it should be. Thank goodness.
