The Washington Post reported that the United States used a huge amount of weapons—over $5.6 billion—in just the first two days of this illegal war.
This is the same government that says we can’t afford healthcare or social programs.
“I emerge from this briefing as dissatisfied and angry, frankly, as I have from any past briefing in my 15 years in the Senate,” he told reporters. “I am left with more questions than answers, especially about the cost of the war. However, my questions have been unanswered, and I will demand answers because the American people deserve to know.”
“And I guess I am most concerned about the threat to American lives of potentially deploying our sons and daughters on the ground in Iran,” Blumenthal continued. “We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here. And there is also, as disturbingly as anything else, the specter of active Russian aid to Iran, putting in danger American lives.”
“Literally, Russia seems to be aiding our enemy actively and intensively with intelligence and perhaps with other means. And China also may be assisting Iran,” he continued.
“So the American people deserve to know much more than this administration has told them about the cost of the war, the danger to our sons and daughters in uniform, and the potential for further escalation and widening of this war, a war of choice made by this president, not chosen by the American people, with potentially huge consequences to American lives,” the senator added.
The phrase “war of choice” is especially important.
Trump started this deadly and harmful war on behalf of Israel, even though Iran isn’t an immediate threat to the U.S. He’s killing men, women, and children, and can’t explain a clear plan. He also didn’t get permission from Congress, as the Constitution requires, and he’s spending our tax money very quickly.
The idea of sending troops into Iran should make every American terrified.
Besides being morally wrong, it could lead to the biggest military failure in U.S. history. Iran has 93 million people, it’s four times the size of Iraq, and it’s mostly mountains. Our soldiers would be walking into a deadly situation.
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