Chicken Hawks Playing Nuclear Chicken with Iran - What Could Go Possibly Go Wrong

Tuesday, June 25th, 2019



My Dear America:

Clearly Donald Trump sees himself as some kind of a Hero for not bombing Iran in recent days.  

He has spelled out this scenario whereby after an unmanned drone was blown out of the sky by Iran that American Generals were getting ready to inflict some serious damage on Iran.  According to Trump the Generals came to Trump for his "Okay" for action to be taken against Iran.  Trump claims that when he asked his Generals how many Iranian lives would be lost as a result of the pending action against Iran he was advised that as many as 150 Iranians might lose their lives as a result of America's response to the destruction of the American Drone.

Trump states that his decision was that killing 150 Iranians in response to the downing of the unmanned drone did not make sense to him and he scrapped the plan to respond to Iran violently.

First of all, I want to join others including retired CIA Chief, John Brennan in praising the fact that Donald Trump has finally done the right thing in not starting a reckless war with Iran.  

That being said, however, there are some serious problems with Donald Trump's Presidential Hero story.

First of all, Donald Trump and America would not have been in this situation if Trump had not made some awful decisions prior to this latest incident.  

Trump would likely not have put our country at risk if he had not foolishly pulled the United States out of the Nuclear Deal with Iran that was intelligently and diligently negotiated by members of Barack Obama's team.  Trump stupidly pulled the U.S. out of a deal in which Iran had agreed to and from all accounts was living up to in which they had agreed not to develop nuclear weapons for a period of ten years.  Trump trashed the deal as being a bad deal for America but never pointed out what was bad about it.  Clearly what was bad about it in Trump's eyes was that it was negotiated by the Obama Team.  

Any Idiot could see that having a Nuclear Agreement, even though it had flaws, was better than not having a Nuclear Agreement with Iran.  Well, apparently one Idiot could not see that.

Also, although Donald Trump has not been known for picking the best people for his Administration The White House picking Chicken Hawk, John Bolton to replace General H.R. McMaster was clearly a disaster in the making.  Bolton, who famously bragged that he joined the National Guard to avoid winding up dead in a rice paddy in Vietnam never saw action outside of the United States.

Yet Bolton who refused to put himself on the firing line seemed to have no problems with putting other Americans in harms way in Iraq while a member of the Bush Administration.  

Anyone listening to John Bolton in his frequent commentaries on Fox News was aware of his leaning toward war with Iran.  Why Trump Chose Bolton to be his National Security Advisor is anyone's guess.  

During Trump's campaign for the Presidency he railed over and over against the Iraq War and promised never to make the same mistake George W. Bush made.  So if Trump did not want to start any more wars in the Middle East why would he hire John Bolton, who was well known to be one of the Chief Architects and Cheerleaders for the Iraq War and chomping at the bit to start a war with Iran.  

We have seen in recent months a coordinated effort by both John Bolton And Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo in a coordinated drumbeat of fear and loathing toward Iran.

Trump hired both of these certified Warmongers and now Trump seems to be dumbfounded (emphasis on Dumb) by how close to war we seem to be with Iran.  Clearly if Iran did not have Nuclear missiles before they will certainly be doing their best to develop them now.

After Trump and his cronies continue to try to create reasons to go to war with Iran it is time for the House of Representatives to let Trump and Company know that they need Congressional approval to go to war.

We seem to be getting closer and closer every day to a Dictatorship.  We have a Democratically controlled House of Representatives.  We need for them to do the right thing and Impeach Donald Trump before he does any more harm to our Democracy and our world than he already has done.



Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher