Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
The nonsensical statement below from the Pentagon announcing that the US government has committed an act of war against Iran should frighten everyone:
“At the direction of the president, the US military has taken decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.”
“This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans.”
“The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world.”
Murdering a high-ranking official of a government is an act of war. It is impossible for an act of war to protect US personnel abroad.
It is impossible for an act of war against Iran to deter future Iranian attack plans. Where there was no Iranian attack plan, there now is in response to the murder of Soleimani.
Committing an act of war does not “protect our people and our interests.” It jeopardizes them.
How is it possible for the Pentagon to issue such a nonsensical laughable justification for murdering a top official of another country? If murdering Soleimani was a “decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad,” why were US citizens and embassy personnel told to depart the Middle East for their safety?
Where was Trump’s mind? Just as he is emerging from the impeachment hoax, why did he commit an impeachable act? Trump attacked another country without Congressional authorization. He thumbed his nose at Congress and the law. It is the duty of the President to enforce the laws of the United States, not break them. The Democrats now have a real impeachable offense to hang around Trump’s neck.
But they will not make us of it. Trump struck down Soleimani, because that is what Netanyahu wanted. The main leaders of the impeachment hoax are Jews, and they are not going to line up against Israel. Adam Schiff, for example, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who is leading the impeachment, gave his approval to Soleimani’s murder when he tweeted that Suleimani “was responsible for unthinkable violence and world is better off without him.”
Israel is the main culprit in this crime. Trump is a secondary culprit. Soleimani himself bears responsibility. He should have known that he was a target and not exposed himself so carelessly. The Russian government also bears responsibility. Russia, China and Iran should long ago have formed a highly visible alliance. Such an alliance would have prevented the crazy and irresponsible act that Israel manuevered Trump into committing. But Putin doesn’t want war, and apparently historians have convinced Putin that alliances are the cause of war. Thus Putin avoids alliances, taking his que instead from American libertarians who say that free trade is the basis of peace. Strength is the guarantor of peace, and strength rests in a powerful alliance against US/Israeli aggression.
Iran’s response was predictable and unfortunate. Iran declared it will take revenge, and most likely will. Iran’s revenge will give Israel the war it wants between the US and Iran.
Iran would have done better to take its revenge and deny responsibility.
Idiot American politicians, one of whom could end up as President, are furthering the cause of war by working up American patriotism with claims, false of course, that Iran is a “terrorist state” determined to harm America, that Iran is responsible for thousands of deaths, including hundreds of Americans, and so forth.
We have heard all of this before. It is the US that is the terrorist state, having destroyed in whole or part seven Muslim countries in the 21st century, producing millions of deaths, injuries, and dispossessed and displaced peoples. I knew it was going to get worse when the Russian government permitted Israel to continue attacking Syrian targets after Russia had rescued Syria from Washington’s proxy army.
As long as Israel runs US foreign policy in Israel’s interest, and as long as “non-compliant” countries are content for Washington to knock them off one by one, war will continue to be our future.
Update: Washington decided to further inflame the situation with another strike: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/round-two-us-drone-airstrikes-kill-six-pro-iran-militia-commanders
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Any country that can come up with – ‘they hate us for our freedoms’ can come up with just about anything AND have the mental midgets believe it.
The only ones who hate us for our freedoms is our own US government. The congress and past and current presidents have circumvented the constitution by legislating our constitutional freedoms away and sending them down the Potomac. The people are critically brainwashed into believing that our enemies are strictly foreign. So they are in effect fighting the wrong enemy because they don’t know who the real enemy is. Consider the military oath soldiers swear by;
The Oath of Enlistment:
“I, ______________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”
Did you catch that ‘CONSTITUTION’ and ‘DOMESTIC’ part?
So the constitution is what soldiers are supposed to be defending and protecting. So we have “defend the ‘constitution’ against all enemies foreign and ‘domestic’ “. So by this definition, your Marines, Navy, Air Force, and Army should be attacking the U.S. government (your own government), not Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, or even North Korea. The only ones threatening your freedom is your own government.
Soldiers, please come home and protect us from our own government!
Agreed.
Did you catch how open ended this contract is? To swear to basically obey anything that TPTsB write up in the Code of Military Justice is insanity.
The contract should be void for vagueness.
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The Oath of Enlistment:
“I, __uR n@m€ H€r€__, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”
Did you catch that ‘CONSTITUTION’ and ‘DOMESTIC’ part?
So the constitution is what soldiers are supposed to be defending and protecting. So we have “defend the ‘constitution’ against all enemies foreign and ‘domestic’ “. So by this definition, your Marines, Navy, Air Force, and Army should be attacking the U.S. government (your own government), not Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, or even North Korea. The only ones threatening your freedom is your own government.
Soldiers, please come home and protect us from our own government!
get some new deadbolts on your doors Mr. Roberts. you’re telling too much truth.
I agree with most of your article but how many years would it take congress to allow Trump to do anything ?
If by ‘do anything’ you mean start another war by invading another country, then I would hope the answer is never.
So, what’s the alternative? Ignore the Iranian attack on our embassy in Iraq? That general was in Iraq. We didn’t hit him in Iran. That fact seems to be lost on many.
Further, that thug is responsible for the murder and maiming of thousands of US Soldiers. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
What makes you think it was Iran that attacked the embassy? Is it because you read it in The New York Times, or was it because your government just said so? I call bullshit, most likely another false flag, or just some pissed of people of Iraq. And what makes you think Soleimani had anything to do with it. I have noticed that even the free thought blogs are sucking this shit up.
Two can play at this game. What makes you think it wasn’t Iranians? False flag? Maybe, or maybe your tin-foil hat is too snug. Iran has never been our friend.
Regardless, the world is a better place without that murdering asshole.
Hardnox, you’re the only voice of sanity in this liberal cesspool of a thread. President Trump didn’t start a war. He took out a very bad actor. A terrorist. That’s what leaders do. That’s what men do. They take out bad guys. They protect women, children and wimps. So the wimps running their mouths on this thread can continue breathing and running their mouths. Bravo President Trump. you’re making the world a safer place.
Hey Hardhead, you must have gulped down enough of that toxic Kool-Aid, that was brewed up to dumb down and brainwash the American mullet to kill a horse. Try researching some actual facts before spouting the “official” line that supposedly rationalizes American thuggery. Jewish answer to education: Brainwashing.
As long as Israel is happy; isn’t that all that matters?
I write “SARC” so no one misinterprets my loathing for Israhell.
“Trump struck down Soleimani, because that is what Netanyahu wanted. The main leaders of the impeachment hoax are Jews, and they are not going to line up against Israel. Adam Schiff, for example, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who is leading the impeachment, gave his approval to Soleimani’s murder when he tweeted that Suleimani “was responsible for unthinkable violence and world is better off without him.”
Israel is the main culprit in this crime. Trump is a secondary culprit.”
There is a growing awareness that Zionists and their control of most western governments including the US is at the core of problems faced by the west. There will be no peace, freedom and prosperity until Zionists are purged from centers of power including Congress, judicial system, Wall Street, the Fed, the MSM, Hollywood, universities and most government departments and agencies in the US and throughout the western world. The good news is that thanks to the internet the role of Jewish organizations in the decline of the West is now recognized by a growing number of people in the west which is why we are seeing a great effort to control and censor independent voices and truth itself. But these attempts will fail because in the longer term, truth will triumph over endemic and subversive lies.
is an enemy that we created, by diktat, and, in order to solve this problem,
that were deemed, by the Bureau of Thought Police, to be just cause for a pro-active reactionary response, and, henceforth,
because the best solution is the boot of the United States, stamping on your face. Forever.
What if the USA had never gone to the M.E ? Having said that, it is what it is; nothing we can do about it now.
Read something on a Phillipino’s site about the US and Iran having already been in an undeclared war since Swamp-rabbit Carter was president.
It seems that both governments find it very useful to keep the hidden war going, but this latest development has pushed it out into the open.
As for whether or not the next distraction to get the public to look elsewhere will be a Hollywood scandal, or an FF event in Virginia – you’re guess is as good as mine.