“Republicans in Congress and President Trump are focused on spending $1 billion a day on a needless war with Iran that is already jacking up prices for Americans,” noted one expert. President Donald Trump made clear in a new interview with Politico that he either doesn’t understand or won’t accept the US public’s response to his and Israel’s war […]
“I am more fearful than ever, after this briefing, that we may be putting boots on the ground,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. Senate Democrats said after receiving a classified briefing from the Trump administration on Tuesday that they’re increasingly concerned about the US-Israeli war on Iran dragging on “forever”—and involving American troops in a ground invasion. […]
The defense secretary suggested that “the US went to war because Iran has ballistic missiles and drones it has used as a deterrent or to respond to US/Israeli attacks,” said journalist Jeremy Scahill. In the Trump administration’s first public remarks to reporters on the strikes the US and Israel launched in Iran over the […]