First half is good. I’ll go even further. Trump is setting US up for disaster! He has refused to talk with Iran (as Rand says), tore up the peace deal (lying about the $), and implemented sanctions (an act of war); though, they have had no nuclear bomb program.
Trump talked with Kim of North Korea, on the other hand, who has nuclear weapons, and now just lets them do whatever they want.
Trump is following the deep state orders, which will destroy US.
The CIA and Mossad created and control ISIS to overthrow governments covertly, when they’re not allowed to use the US military openly.
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Lt. General Soleimani was an instrumental figure in the fight against Daesh in Syria and Iraq and saved countless Christian and Muslim lives by thwarting missions that put their civilian lives in danger. However, as is the case in many of Washington’s manufactured pretexts used to justify unwarranted wars and invasions, heroes are vilified and terrorists (along with their sponsors) are revered.
It’s particularly interesting to see ISIS, Israel, and the United States on the same side when it comes to Soleimani’s death. A weekly ISIS newspaper called al-Naba praised the assassination and called it “divine intervention” “an act of God” and stated that Soleimani’s death will assist their efforts to regroup in Iraq. It’s blatantly obvious that ISIS saw him as a deterrent while Washington painted him to be the “number one terrorist”. This further illustrates how Washington’s alleged “war on terror” is nothing more than an excuse to invade countries….
World Affairs Brief, January 10, 2020 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
SETTING A TRAP FOR TRUMP ON WAR WITH IRAN
Trump’s approval of the assassination attack on Iran’s top general, Qassem Soleimani, was based on lies and half-truths fed to him by his advisors. They claimed Soleimani was coming to Baghdad to direct more terror against diplomats, when, in fact, Soleimani was there on a diplomatic mission initiated by the US. The US worked with Saudi Arabia to draft a peace plan and then asked Iraq to invite Iran to come to Baghdad for negotiations. Iran sent Soleimani. That is why he came on a commercial airliner, carrying a diplomatic passport and meeting with the PM.
He was tracked and killed along with a top Iraqi general, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, at the airport. This assassination set the Iraqi and Iranian world on fire, as it was intended to do, destroying what little goodwill the US had left in the region, and fomenting rioters who chant “death to America.” Advisors also fed Trump the 52 targets in Iran they were planning on hitting if Iran retaliated, which included “cultural sites” on the list. The advisors had to know that hitting cultural sites was a war crime, but did so on purpose in order to embarrass Trump. Trump stumbled deeper into the trap after he was criticized by the media, by tweeting rude justifications for striking cultural sites, but in the end had to recant and say he would obey international law. But in a sense, Deep State advisors went too far in embarrassing Trump, for when Iran limited its revenge strike—to make sure no Americans were killed, Trump saw a way out and took it, thus evading the trap —for now. But the globalists aren’t through manipulating Trump into war. …
After a period of initial confusion about the cause of the crash, the Iranian government yesterday took full responsibility for shooting down a Ukrainian airplane as it took off from Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran. Once the cause of crash became clear Iranian President Hassan Rouhani issued a statement saying that “The Islamic Republic of Iran deeply regrets this disastrous mistake. My thoughts and prayers go to all the mourning families.” After issuing an apology, Iran promised to hold those who were responsible for this action accountable for what they did.
The reaction of the Iranians was in marked contrast to how the American government reacted to a similar incident, when the guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes shot down the Airbus carrying Iran Air Flight 655, killing 290 innocent people, including 66 children. Unlike Iran’s Supreme Leader, Vice President George H. W. Bush refused to apologize for the incident, saying “I’ll never apologize for the United States of America ever, I don’t care what the facts are.” Eventually, the United States government expressed “deep regret” over the incident but never admitted legal liability, nor did they formally apologize to Iran even though they paid $61.8 million in damages to the victims. In this, the Americans were following the lead of the Israeli government when its aircraft attempted to sink the USS Liberty in international waters, killing 34 Americans. The Israelis maintain to this day the fiction that their pilots did not know that they were attacking an American ship, even though the surviving crew members say that it was flying the American flag and clearly identified as such.
In 1953, our CIA removed Iran’s elected leader and installed the Shah, to control their oil. ’79 was the Muslim overreaction, when Khomeini implemented religious law which still exists today.
We started this mess, getting people to hate US, and then react with what means they had — a different type of tyranny.
[Facebook, 1/11/20] “Trump has reportedly now confessed that he ordered the assassination of General Soleimani in exchange for the votes of war-mongering Senators Graham and Cotton in his impeachment trial.” Nicholas Davies
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Trump reportedly told associates he killed Qassem Soleimani because he was under pressure from GOP senators before his impeachment trial
Lies About Iran Killing US Troops in Iraq Are a Ploy to Justify War
BY
Gareth Porter, Truthout
PUBLISHED
July 9, 2019
One of the many myths that have been used to justify the push for war with Iran led by National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is that Tehran is responsible for the killing of more than 600 U.S. troops during the Iraq War.
Assassination has been a central component of U.S. policy for many decades, though it has been whitewashed and normalized throughout history, most recently with Obama’s favored term, “targeted killings.” The U.S. Congress has intentionally never legislated the issue of assassination. Lawmakers have avoided even defining the word “assassination.” While every president since Gerald Ford has upheld an executive order banning assassinations by U.S. personnel, they have each carried out assassinations with little to no congressional outcry.
In 1976, following Church Committee recommendations regarding allegations of assassination plots carried out by U.S. intelligence agencies, Ford signed an executive order banning “political assassination.” Jimmy Carter subsequently issued a new order strengthening the prohibition by dropping the word “political” and extending it to include persons “employed by or acting on behalf of the United States.” In 1981, Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order 12333, which remains in effect today. The language seems clear enough: “No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.”
Our Patriot anti-missiles did not stop Iran’s missiles recently in Saudi Arabia and now in Iraq.
Pompeo lied to Americans about Soleimani’s reason for being in Iraq: the Saudi-Iranian peace proposal for Yemen.
I commented:
Soleimani helping defend Iraq from our illegal regime-change invasion is NOT terrorism. None of our men would have been killed had we not immorally invaded. Trump even admitted the Iraq war was a mistake.
Fact: In the 70s, #Iran paid the USA $400 million to buy weapons – which the USA never delivered b/c of the Iranian Revolution. The Iran Deal required the USA to finally pay back the $400M + $1.4B in interest. It was a valid debt. Don’t fall for Trump’s dishonest spin.
Fact: Obama didn’t give #Iran $150 billion US dollars. The USA had frozen $150B in overseas Iranian assets for leverage. After signing the Iran Deal, Obama released the hold on Iran’s accounts. Trump is lying when he spins the story to whip up his base (who don’t fact-check him).
How long will Fox News allow Tucker to stand on principle, telling the truth about our reverse-Christian wars based on lies?
“Fox News is the most pro-war network out there in terms of Iran. They really are beating up on the conservatives with this propaganda about Iran.” – Joel Skousen
The most accurate strategic analyst I know of explains the Trump/Iran situation.
[Note, this is on Alex’s show, which I can no longer recommend except rarely, like this special segment.]
23:25 “It’s very interesting that Fox News is the most pro-war network out there in terms of Iran. They really are beating up on the conservatives with this propaganda about Iran.”
I frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough, and it’s very hard for me to see how the United States president can get us to war with Iran, which leads me to conclude that if in fact compromise is not coming that the traditional way of America gets to war is what would be best for US interests.
Some people might think that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to get us in to the World War two as David mentioned. You may recall we had to wait for Pearl Harbor.
Some people might think mr. Wilson wanted to get us into World War One. You may recall he had to wait for the Lusitania episode
Some people might think that Mr. Johnson wanted to send troops to Vietnam. You may recall they had to wait for the Gulf of Tonkin episode.
We didn’t go to war with Spain until the USS Maine exploded, and may I point out that Mr. Lincoln did not feel he could call off the federal army until Fort Sumter was attacked which is why he ordered the commander at Fort Sumter to do exactly that thing which the South Carolinians had said would cause an attack.
So if in fact the Iranians aren’t going to compromise it would be best if somebody else started the war…
But I would just like to suggest that one can combine other means of pressure with sanctions. I mentioned that explosion on August 17th. We could step up the pressure. I mean look people, Iranian submarines periodically go down – someday one of them might not come up.
Who would know why?
We can do a variety of things if we wish to increase the pressure. I’m not advocating that but I’m just suggesting that a it’s…this is not a either-or proposition of, you know, it’s just sanctions has to succeed or other things.
We are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians. We could get nastier than that.”
Tucker and his guest are excellent. War with Iran would be a HUGE mistake, and Trump would be “cooked” politically if he does it. It’s surprising FOX allows Tucker to dissent from their warmongering. Phil Donahue was fired from his popular show back in the day because he opposed the war then.
World Affairs Brief, September 20, 2019 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World. Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
US BLAMES IRAN FOR SAUDI REFINERY ATTACK
Even though the Houthis of Yemen took credit for last Saturday’s attack on a major Saudi oil refinery, the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and every major US media outlet were eager to blame Iran, with the pompous Pompeo calling it an “act of war.” But so far the evidence looks thin at best and suspiciously planted at worst. As a former military pilot, my problem with the pictures of the damage is that there is only a single hole in every one of the 14 spherical gas storage tanks in the refinery and none of them exploded. I know of no explosive munitions capable of putting a uniform sized hole, in the exact same location on each the numerous tank without exploding the contents and destroying the tanks themselves—and yet that’s what the pictures purportedly show. President Trump always seems to go along with US intelligence when it cooks up evidence like this against either Syria or Iran. He naively said, “It’s ‘looking like’ Iran was responsible for Saudi oil attacks,” and bragged that the US was “locked and loaded.” Iran disavowed the attack, calling it “maximum lies” and said they were ready to repel any attack. Saudi Arabia compared this attack to its own 9/11, possibly setting the stage to attack Iran. Perhaps the comparison with 9/11 is not so far off. The WTC attacks were a US Deep State false flag event used to start phony wars against Middle Eastern nations.
The problem of small holes in the tanks and no resulting explosions isn’t just a minor anomaly—it is a major contradiction in US claims about Iran being responsible and cries out for an explanation. See for yourself in these US satellite photos first obtained from the government by the Associate Press.
Yesterday President Trump offered to place our military, my brothers and sisters in uniform, under the command of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the dictator of the Islamist Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Trump said, “[We] are locked and loaded, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!” Mr. President, as you know, I have never engaged in hateful rhetoric against you, or your family, and I never will, but your offering our military assets to the dictator of Saudi Arabia to use as he sees fit, is a betrayal of my brothers and sisters in uniform who are ready to give our lives for our country, not for the Islamist dictator of Saudi Arabia. For you to think that you can pimp out our proud servicemen and women to the Prince of Saudi Arabia is disgraceful, and it once again shows that you are unfit to serve as our commander in chief. As a member of Congress, and as a soldier, I and all of my brothers and sisters in uniform have taken an oath to protect and defend the American people and the Constitution of the United States of America. There is nothing in our Constitution that gives you the power to go to war without the express consent of Congress, but to speak of giving you the power to offer our military to a foreign power like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to use as they wish — President Trump, your words and actions are a betrayal of my brothers and sisters in uniform, the American people, and our Constitution. My fellow servicemembers and I — we are not your prostitutes. You are not our pimp.
Joel Skousen stated on the Jeff Rense Show, 6/26/19, transcribed by me:
2:28 “This was a P-8 Poseidon anti-submarine warfare and general all-around surveillance aircraft. It has dozens of computer stations where people monitor various different sensors on the aircraft. What some people in-the-know really think is that the Poseidon was actually leading the charge, not following. The Global Hawk was there to record the destruction of American servicemen. They were going to use the American servicemen as bait to get into a war with Iran. And Iran turned the tables on them by taking out the Global Hawk and leaving the Poseidon alone.”