Iran war is a colossal legal, moral, practical disaster. DO YOUR JOB. Stop it
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The war is Iran is illegal; the US is committing war crimes; the conflict is being incompetently conducted. It is unconscionably costly in human lives, integrity, and safety.
Let's review some of the facts:
-- the US involvement is illegal according to both the War powers act and the UN.
--The planning failures betray Americans living in the region. "Americans stranded in the Middle East say the State Department hotline Marco
Rubio told them to call plays a recorded message warningsu
"Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time."
--"It's clear the Trump team didn't do proper planning ahead of time for the estimated 500k to 1M Americans in the Middle East. After the war began, State stood up what's called a TASK FORCE, a 24/7 op that brings career officers with different expertise to sit physically in the same room and coordinate the flood of calls/logistics."
--"Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination."
-- additional war crimes include bombing a primary school and bombing an oil well so that burning oil raged through the streets of Tehran. Don't count on impunity for these monstrous actions.
--the War has compromised US military safety long term. "Iran now has, perhaps for the first time, information about the location of our most sensitive covert sites in the region.
A completely foreseeable, unnecessary consequence of unnecessary war with Iran."
--the war is unnecessary and is predicated on a lie about imminent danger.
"Obama made a deal so that Tehran didn't get a nuke and then the GOP nuked it because they thought they could force Tehran to accept better terms"
--"Russian agent Steve Witkoff says he "strongly" told the russians not to send targeting information to the Iranians.
Russian asset Trump immediately covered for the russians, saying: "We don't know, but it's not doing very well. If they are it's not helping much."
-- Kash Patel "fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
They were ousted for a simple reason: Each was involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s alleged retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago lair".
So: In short: numerous prosecutable war crimes.
No plan for an after-time or transition; no counter-terrorism agents at work in the US. Danger to US troops and based. No evacuation plan for US citizens.
I have not even discussed the colossal cost in dollars, the despicable moral failures, the disgrace of Hegseth's lack of professional demeanor, Trump's disrespect to our fallen troops, the incoherent and contradictory administration statements about the purpose and extent of the attacks. Or the corrupt profits of members of Congress who bought up weapons stocks.
You know that fascists and dictators need wars. And you know that Trump would destroy the world to distract from and escape his legal jeopardy from the Epstein files.
STOP THIS ILLEGAL WAR NOW. DO YOUR JOB