A BAD WAR OF LIES, MORE LIES AND WRONG CHOICES
by Cash Michaels
We are now days into Donald Trump’s ill-advised and illegal war against Iran, and a few undeniable facts must be made clear about this very dangerous misadventure.
People forget, Trump deliberately changed the name of our U.S Defense Dept. to HIS “Dept. of War” for a reason.
Because he’s always intended to do something stupid with it, and he has!
Make no mistake, we will win this conflict. If there’s one thing Trump and I totally agree on is that the United States military is the best in the world, and has been for years (though he would quickly say that it wasn’t really “great” until he took it over).
But that’s not good enough reason to put the precious lives of our brave young men and women in uniform at risk. Their priority one job is to defend the homeland, NOT satisfy the personal whims of a crazed convicted felon with bad rashes on his neck and hands (as far as I'm concerned, a person's body can hold only but so much evil before it starts showing itself)!
According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the US attacked Iran first because we knew that Israel was planning to do it, and we figured that when Iran responded, it would then attack us too. So we launched Operation Epic Fury.
If what Marco says is true (which I doubt, and Trump contradicts), what kicked off last weekend was clearly the classic Moe, Larry and Curly defense strategy we all grew up watching on TV as kids (Moe slaps Curly, Larry slaps Curly, Curly counter-slaps Moe and Larry back together).
Like I said, Three Stooges “defense” strategy, which obviously requires a lot of lying to successfully pull off. For instance, it’s clear that Trump has been planning to more than “slap” Iran for some time now, but make no mistake, Israel or no Israel, he was always willing to come up with any excuse to do it.
Developing nuclear weapons, state sponsor of world terrorism, slaughtering tens of thousands of its own people, and the list goes on.
Sure Iran is a horrible and dangerous actor on the world stage, but it’s not the only one. And just because you have the ability to take Iran on, doesn’t mean you should, unless you have to.
And you shouldn’t have to unless Iran has definitely attacked you first, which, for the record, it hasn’t, regardless of what Trump, Rubio, or our stooge-level “secretary of war” Pete Hegeseth says.
But wait a minute, didn’t I just say that Iran was a “horrible and dangerous actor on the world stage?” Doesn’t such a dangerous state deserve to be attacked first, like Trump has done?
Glad you asked! That’s why we have Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the U.S. Constitution:
“[The Congress shall have Power…] to declare War…and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water…”
So that con men like Trump who somehow end up in the Oval Office, don’t, on their own, decide to commit our nation to war on their own.
Now over our 250-year history, Congress hasn’t done a very good job of reining in presidents who take our powerful military bull by the horns, and crash it into another country’s china shop. And despite all of the “jibber-jabber” (my favorite Mr. T phrase), Congress isn't doing a very good job now. Especially given how at least six U.S. service members have already been killed, over 1,000 people killed, and the whole region has been pulled into the quagmire now by Iran’s targeted missile and drone attacks.
So what we have now is an extraordinary pre-World War Three mess with no real end in sight (despite Trump’s phony prediction of four to five weeks, if not more) and the growing possibility of seeing US boots-on-the-ground to close the deal.
Any other president would have gathered his evidence (military satellite images, intelligence, etc.), and presented it to the nation and the world to justify his actions as he proceeded by now.
But our intelligence community says based on their info, Iran wasn’t planning anything against the US or our assets.
Any other president would also have a solid plan for what happens after the bombs fall, not this business of telling 90 million Iranians “Hey we’re going to bomb the crap out of your country, so stay indoors, but as soon as we finish, come out and takeover what’s left of your government while you still can...”
That’s as solid a plan for success, as my going to City Barbecue and ordering just the veggie platter.
So we started this week with six American casualties because Iran had a “powerful” weapon we couldn’t defend against, and three downed U.S. fighter jets by friendly fire from Kuwait. Apparently we didn't strategize for all of that.
And why wasn’t there an evacuation plan for the tens of thousands of Americans in 14 surrounding countries, both vacationing and working in the Middle East? Those folks are trapped there as their hotels and U.S. embassies are being attacked, and their country is only now trying to figure out how to get them out. Over 60% of international flights in and out of the Middle East have been canceled, and airports are closed.
Trump’s excuse? “It happened all very quickly!”
My Lord! The extraordinary level of leadership and undeniable competence here is just breathtaking!
As we sit here days after the initial bombing attack that started in the wee hours of last Saturday morning, we continue to wonder exactly why Trump attacked Iran.
Not the industrial strength bullcrap he tried to feed us, but the real reasons he ordered the planes to fly, the bombs to fall, and the missiles to be launched, so that people would be killed.
He says because we had to stop Iran from possessing a nuclear weapon and long range ballistic missiles, adding that we were “…very nearly under threat.”
But wait a damn minute. That’s the reason (supposedly) why our B-2s bunker-busted and bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities back in June 2025. And if I’m not mistaken, Trump got on TV afterwards and bragged that Operation Midnight Hammer "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities.
Apparently the clown doesn’t know what the definition of "completely and totally obliterated" means, or was lying through his MAGA teeth, because here we are, less than a year later, pounding Iranian real estate again.
But wait another damn minute!
Our infamous liar-in-chief also posited that this whole face-off with Iran now is about regime change, something he earlier said he wasn’t interested in. But now that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, someone Trump has called, “one of the most evil people in history,” has been killed, Trump has had a change of heart, and wants to consider making friends with whomever takes over.
In fact, he wants to have a say in who rules Iran next, though he won’t admit it. Why?
O-I-L my friends, and I don’t mean the baby lotion kind.
Trump has always openly fretted that the United States was not greedy and calculating enough to take over the oil fields of Iraq after the war which toppled then Iraqi Pres. Saddam Hussein back in the ’90’s. So now that Trump’s in charge, you think he’s going to pass up influencing Iranian control of one fifth of the world’s oil distribution, especially through the Strait of Hormuz?
Threatening violence, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has already closed that narrow shipping lane through which much of the world’s oil supply comes through in tankers, affecting supplies and sending oil prices higher. The global economy will now suffer.
Iran is one of the world’s major oil producers, but because of sanctions, it’s limited to supplying primarily to China. Think Trump doesn’t want to now change that calculus, like he did after back-banging Venezuela for control over its oil a few weeks ago? Probably why he’s now talking about sending US Navy escorts in to protect those oil tankers going through the strait.
Gee, the stuff we shouldn’t have to do if we just didn’t start wars with folks who were always itching to blow us apart.
This mess was predictable. As the late and still great General Colin Powell once warned Pres. George W. Bush about starting stuff in the Middle East, “You break it, you buy it!”
There are also at least two other compelling reasons why Trump would want to draw attention to his left paw, while we should also be looking to what he’s up to with his right.
To take increasing focus away from the growing attention on allegations from a woman who says that when she was just 13-years-old and apparently under the control of convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, she was ordered to engage in oral sex with Trump, and actually bit him, which resulted in, as you can imagine, an alleged violent reaction from him.
This woman reportedly shared her story with the FBI years ago in four separate interviews, but in the recent release of the Epstein files to Congress from AG Pam Bondi’s Justice Dept., three of those four written interview sessions were missing. Democrats in Congress were beginning to ask tough questions why, and where are those missing pages of interviews.
That brings us to the second shiny-thing-over-here reason why Trump would prefer we all pay attention to the novel way he’s putting American lives at risk with this war (and attempting to placate us with the expectation that there will be more American casualties coming):
The 2026 midterm elections and his stated intention to screw with it.
Democrats can scream to the mountains about investigating allegations that many of Trump’s alleged nefarious actions with Jeffrey Epstein are being covered up by Pam Bondi, but unless Dems actually take back control of Congress in the midterm elections, they can’t do a whole lot about their suspicions.
Trump is committed to Dems never getting the chance or the power, and that means he has to screwup the upcoming November midterms so bad that it can’t happen. Reports are that his attorneys are already setting the stage for him to issue his all-purpose executive orders mandating this, and outlawing that, as far as election law is concerned.
Mind you, Trump legally has no power over elections. The states do. But he’s already proven that he’s capable of sending federal troops into any America city he chooses under the guise of a “national emergency” to seize voting machines, ballots, whatever, to hold onto power, and ensuring that Democrats are never in the position to hold him accountable again.
Flexing his military muscle is one way to keep us all distracted from what is coming. Like comedian Jimmy Kimmel says, this is Trump’s “war of distractions.”
Never mind how many American, Palestinian, Iranian, Venezuelan, Cuban, or anyone else’s lives may be deemed unfortunately in the way of Trump’s insatiable appetite for power. No matter what the cost, Donald Trump now has the firepower to get more power, and he’s not allowing ANYBODY to get in his way.
By the way, MAGA voters, apparently you’re on this list too, because your “America First” president is certainly acting like he no longer listens to, nor needs you with this "going to war" business, a war he promised YOU he’d NEVER get into.
You got snookered again, MAGA, but it was nice while it lasted, wasn’t it?
And for the rest of us, all of that affordability bull Trump was feeding us has gone up in absolute smoke, as the rising cost of war affects gas prices, which then impacts the cost of food, travel, imports, you name it. And yet, Trump doesn’t seem to mind too much, does he?
Of course he’s already blaming any negative effects he’s caused on Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Wouldn’t be a classic Trump screwup if he didn’t.
So yes, the attack on Iran, in my opinion, is a bad war of lies, more lies and wrong choices on Trump’s part. Part of his master plan to rule the world, or at least what’s left of it when he gets through.
Already there’s been a mass shooting event at a Texas bar where two people were killed, fourteen wounded by a man with a sweatshirt saying “Property of Allah” and an Iranian flag design. Should we expect more alleged terrorist events to come?
When you choose to wage war, there are always casualties, unintended or otherwise. That’s why we have a Constitution, so that the serious business of waging war is done in OUR name, NOT at the whims of some proven shyster.
This is why we have to make it our business to vote in the November 2026 midterms to get Democrats back in power to control the rest of Trump’s term.
It may be our very last chance to save our nation.
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