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Quote:The Lie of ‘Preventive’ War
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YOU are the rot.
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Never has Donald Trump’s willful blindness to legal limits been more evident than in his decision to start a war with Iran.
By David Cole | March 6, 2026
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/03/06/the-lie-of-preventive-war/
In January, during a lengthy New York Times interview with President Donald Trump, one of the paper’s reporters asked him whether he saw “any checks” to his “power on the world stage.” Yes, he answered: “There is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me, and that’s very good.” Another reporter asked about international law. “I don’t need international law,” he explained. “I’m not looking to hurt people. I’m not looking to kill people.”
That attitude—save the last two sentences—has been on dramatic display in recent months. Already it has served as the basis for the extrajudicial execution of more than 150 people claimed to have been transporting drugs on the high seas and the deaths of at least a hundred people during the illegal invasion of Venezuela to arrest President Nicolás Maduro, provoke regime change, and gain access to that country’s oil.
But never has Trump’s willful blindness to legal limits been more evident than in his decision to start a war with Iran. As of March 4 the death toll in Iran from the joint US–Israeli military assault, underway since Saturday, had risen to nearly eight hundred. That number includes the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and many of its top officials, but also reportedly at least 175 people at a girls school—many of them children between the ages of seven and twelve—that was in session when bombs struck.
Trump’s war with Iran may not trouble his “morality,” but it is manifestly illegal. It violates what is often described as the first principle of international law, enshrined in the United Nations Charter, which prohibits nations from using or threatening to use force against another nation except in self-defense or when authorized by the UN Security Council. Neither condition obtains here. Early Saturday morning, Trump issued an eight-minute video in which he claimed that he had acted to defend the American people from “imminent threats.” To justify that claim he cited historical Iranian wrongdoing dating back to the 1979 hostage crisis, as well as its support of terrorist groups, but he identified no actual imminent threat. He repeatedly said that Iran could never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, but he also stated that a June 2025 air attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities had already “obliterated” its nuclear capability. And he urged the Iranian people to “take over your government,” an explicit endorsement of regime change having little to do with self-defense. (As no one disputes, Khamenei was a truly despotic leader, responsible for inflicting terror and death on his own people and on those of many other countries. But there are many despots around the world, and no principle of international law makes Donald Trump the arbiter of which ones stay in power and which ones should be killed.)
In a letter submitted to Congress two days later, the president omitted his previous, unsupported claim of an imminent threat. Instead he vaguely asserted that he had acted in defense of Americans at home and abroad, as well as “in collective self-defense of our regional allies, including Israel.” But in the absence of any ongoing attack, or any evidence that Iran was planning an imminent attack, neither the United States nor Israel had any authority to start a war against another sovereign country.
Trump’s unilateral action also violated the Constitution, which gives Congress, not the president, the power to declare war and authorize more limited military actions (referred to in the Constitution as “letters of marque and reprisal”). That allocation of responsibility was deliberate. As George Mason
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Trump says he believes bombing of Iranian girls' school was "done by Iran"
March 7, 2026 / 6:19 PM EST
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-he-believes-bombing-of-iranian
-girls-school-was-done-by-iran/
The US bombed civilians, and there is no denying that school children are dead-dead-dead. So, how does Trump handle that? By lying about it. When bomb fragments that killed the children are eventually identified by the markings that say "Made in USA", Trump will lie some more.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump says he believes bombing of Iranian girls' school was "done by Iran"
March 7, 2026 / 6:19 PM EST
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-he-believes-bombing-of-iranian
-girls-school-was-done-by-iran/
The US bombed civilians, and there is no denying that school children are dead-dead-dead. So, how does Trump handle that? By lying about it. When bomb fragments that killed the children are eventually identified by the markings that say "Made in USA", Trump will lie some more.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
How many bombs with Made in USA have we given to Ukraine? To the Middle-East? To basically anyone and everyone who ever asked for them since the end of WWII?
How many bombs with Made in USA printed on them did Joe Biden* leave in Afghanistan in the disastrous pullout August of 2021?
I hope they're all dated and have serial numbers on them.
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Who is next on Trump’s kill list?
The US has now removed two dictators. Putin will be trembling in his boots
Western leaders must now act swiftly to convert the shock and awe of US firepower into diplomatic leverage over Moscow
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
Published 08 March 2026 1:16pm GMT
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/08/us-has-now-removed-two-dic
tators-putin-will-be-trembling/
Whatever the outcome of the current US assault on Iran, we have already seen a telling strategic outcome: the clerical regime has been decapitated, despite every effort by a powerful nation to protect the late Ayatollah. The psychological ripples of this will be felt in capitals around the world – and not least in the Kremlin, lair of Vladimir Putin.
The world has changed: or at any rate the US has. In 2013, Barack Obama said the use of chemical weapons by another dictator, Assad of Syria, was a “red line”. But after Ed Miliband succeeded in killing Parliamentary approval for British action, Washington also backed down.
The result was unfettered chemical warfare by Assad against his own people and around 500,000 deaths. I spent a lot of time in Syria over the following 11 years and I can vouch for the horrifying results of the sarin and chlorine attacks. Miliband should be ashamed of himself, but of course he isn’t: he’s still a reliable friend to murderous foreign dictators. I can’t believe that anyone would listen to him given his record, but there you are. Britain is still the same – but the US is not.
Washington has acted against Iran on the basis that it may, in time, acquire a nuclear weapon and develop delivery systems capable of reaching the American mainland. Russia already possesses thousands of nuclear warheads, the overwhelming majority of which can reach and are aimed at the United States. That is not conjecture.
As I watch from the Middle East, with instability simmering just beyond the horizon, one hears the argument that the United States is expending too much military resource to retain meaningful leverage over Moscow. Such claims betray a fundamental misunderstanding of American military depth. The United States does not run out of air power because it conducts a campaign. And when measured against Russian forces that have bled themselves white in Ukraine, the comparison becomes starker still.
Further, it is now evident to all that the qualitative superiority of American and allied air power over Russian systems is profound. The Russian-supplied S-300 batteries fielded by Iran are now twisted wreckage. Indeed, Israel alone was able to suppress the mullahs’ air defences.
Moscow’s protection is better, with not only S-400 but supposedly enhanced S-500 systems coming online. But the Russian forces have critical weaknesses – among them the scarcity of the Beriev A-50 radar aircraft, vital for the detection of low-flying threats such as drones and cruise missiles. Russia had only a handful of these in service at the start of the full-scale Ukraine invasion, and has since lost several at the hands of the Ukrainians. It may no longer be possible to maintain a constant airborne watch anywhere. As for the vaunted S-500, another thing which has been shown throughout the Ukraine war is the exaggerated nature of Russia’s claims for its advanced weaponry.
One is therefore compelled to consider whether the current strikes against Iran have more than one target. The Iranian theocracy is being struck directly: Vladimir Putin is being struck psychologically. There is, perhaps, a sequencing in Washington’s thinking: Venezuela, then Iran, and ultimately the Kremlin. Moscow cannot be entirely sanguine. The psychological effect of demonstrated force is often more potent than force itself.
President Putin has, by most accounts, played for time since the Alaska summit. His strategic objectives in Ukraine have not shifted since the invasion began more than four years ago. If he believed he could manipulate Washington indefinitely, recent events may give him pause. A US commander-in-chief who has shown a
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Who is next on Trump’s kill list?
At least we know it's not your dead whore of a mother.
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Quote:Trump tweet claimed that Iran had “surrendered” while not yet having “surrendered”. Here is Schrodinger’s Surrender Tweet:
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Who is next on Trump’s kill list?
At least we know it's not your dead whore of a mother.
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. It is the first time that Iran has ever lost, in thousands of years, to surrounding Middle Eastern Countries. They have said, "Thank you President Trump." I have said, "You're welcome!" Iran is no longer the "Bully of the Middle East," they are, instead, "THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST," and will be for many decades until they surrender or, more likely, completely collapse! Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iran's bad behavior, are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP Mar 07, 2026
https://x.com/GulistanNewsTV/status/2030267219436064999
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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He's finally support the crazy Zionist Israelis and he's finally bombing Iran...that's a change
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump tweet claimed that Iran had “surrendered” while not yet having “surrendered”. Here is Schrodinger’s Surrender Tweet:
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Who is next on Trump’s kill list?
At least we know it's not your dead whore of a mother.
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Guess it's time to turn Mecca into glass like GWB should have done nearly 25 years ago.
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How We’re All Now Paying the Price for the Myth of Trump’s Competence
The administration’s war with Iran is setting a mountain of taxpayer dollars on fire every day—mostly because he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
By Michael Tomasky / March 9, 2026
https://newrepublic.com/article/207492/myth-trump-competence-iran-war
At some point, early Wednesday morning, the cost of the Iran war will top $10 billion. The Center for Strategic and International Studies released a paper last week pegging the cost of this latest misadventure at $891 million a day.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/37-billion-estimated-cost-epic-furys-fir
st-100-hours
I’ve seen higher estimates, but CSIS is a respected nonpartisan outfit, so let’s go with its number for now. The report states that the vast majority of this money had not been previously budgeted, especially the spending on munitions. One Patriot interceptor missile costs close to $4 million, and we’re apparently burning through them. And “War” Secretary Pete Hegseth promises that we’re just getting revved up.
None of us knows how long this war is going to last. But it’s certainly no Venezuela, which took—ready?—two and a half hours. Donald Trump may have told British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the weekend that the war was “already won.” But also over the weekend, a prewar intelligence report was leaked to two Washington Post reporters showing that the National Intelligence Council, a panel of independent intel experts, seems to think that dislodging the regime could take a very long time indeed—at $37 million an hour, a rate that is almost sure to rise, especially if ground troops get involved.
Meanwhile, gas prices went up about 60 cents a gallon in the war’s first week. The Dow fell 453 points Friday. (It’s currently well below 50,000, so I guess that means, per Pam Bondi, that we’re now allowed to take the Jeffrey Epstein scandal seriously.) Also on Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February. In the year and change since Trump returned to office, the economy has added around 140,000 jobs. In a year. The St. Louis Fed estimated last spring that simply to keep pace with the growth in the number of people who age into the labor force, the economy needs to add around 150,000 jobs a month.
In other words, everywhere you look, the news isn’t merely bad. It’s terrible.
We’ve seen numerous examples in these last 13 months of Trump’s mendacity and malevolence. Unfortunately, a lot of Americans will never see him that way. There are those who adore him unconditionally, but beyond these dead-enders, there are others who know he’s not a good person but aren’t all that bothered by it.
That’s hard for millions of us to accept. But I hope to God that these people are finally starting to move themselves toward the conclusion that, even if they aren’t that troubled by the mendacity and malevolence, the man is just wildly incompetent. A mountain range of mythmaking has gone into creating the Trump persona over the years; by him, by a pliant business press in his real estate days, and, since he entered politics, by a right-wing media that would make the old Soviet press agencies blush and a party of cowardly sycophants, most of whom know very well that he shouldn’t be in charge of a high-volume McDonald’s, let alone the executive branch of the federal government, but would rather let the country collapse than say so.
I remember a conversation I had with a Biden White House official in the spring of 2024, when Joe Biden was still running. I was asking about Trump’s weaknesses, and this official said something to me that may stand as the single most depressing couple of sentences I’ve ever had directed at me in 30-plus years of covering politics. We’re not going to dislodge people’s belief that he’s a great businessman, this official said; forget it. It’s hardwired in there, and undoing it, for a significant percentage of the people, just isn’t going to happen.
I believed this person, whom I’m known for a while; yet
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Shut up, faggot.
You cheered for this 4 years ago, you little bitch.
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