The leading hawk in the Trump Administration when it comes to Iran,
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continues to use every media appearance
to push the idea of a major confrontation with Iran as all but
inevitable.
On Fox News Sunday, Pompeo was quick to declare that it is the “world’s responsibility” to unite into a global coalition and confront Iran, declaring the Iranians the “evil force in the region.”
Pompeo added that the “whole world understands” that Iran is totally at fault, and solely to blame for what he described as a “state-on-state act of war.” He said Iran has been behaving this way for 40 years.
The Secretary of State has been angling for direct US intervention in
Iran for months, and while President Trump has expressed an aversion to a
war with Iran, as have a number of other officials, he seems interested
in using every pretext to push for more such measures.
Other officials are emphasizing the number of US sanctions being imposed
against Iran, and vowing that there will be more sanctions in the
future. In reality, the US is sanctioning almost every aspect of Iran
already, and the new sanctions have so far just been to reiterate the
old sanctions.
the world must unite to confront the criminal war machines of the us and israel which cowardly starve and murder civilian populations to get their way. witness, unarmed palestinian women, children, even first aid responders, gunned down and starved of food, water, electricity just because, then too, iranians. likewise starved, who must sell their kidneys on kidney street to survive. is this civilized war or peace the us and zionist isrrael do? i think not. it is nuremberg worthy.
Who is the world? A vast number of world’s population do not believe a word of it, and do not want war. So, which world is he referring to?
The delusional world of DC lobbyists and selected officials as well as our fabulously wealthy elitist sociopaths I do believe.
I am not sure how to ask this, or who to address it to: who is going to be responsible for
Iran policy? Will someone be accountable for anything going wrong — losses to military or civilian? What is the urgency in pushing for war? And a countability will need to be clearly defined — so we do not have another failure for which nobody is responsible.
When it comes to war, war crimes, casualties, etc., only the losers are ever held accountable and then only if their loss is total rather than negotiated.
Accountability has its’ basis in law. The dems instigated a rollback of forever war by congressional votes in Yemen, the GOP and trump, have thwarted that attempt. Know thy enemy.
Funny how that war started under a dem president don’t you think ?
Thy enemy is both dems and reps since they both are owned by roughly the same 2500 entitled assholes.
Correct, about the same time dem congressional members began opposing it, still, with unanimous GOP support. Gee, sorry all dems don’t go antiwar all the time, what’s the alternative ? The unified war party in the gop ?
I wasn’t aware that the entire GOP was pro war all the time…………. But I guess we can just hope electing dems and catching them when they’re in “anti war mode” is a possibility or a reasonable alternative.
The war party is the uniparty which is both parties and a few after the fact symbolic votes is just a facade to keep an actual second party from ever gaining traction.
If you research war authorization votes back to the Vietnam antiwar democrat movement, you will never think “the parties are the same” again. The southern strategy of Nixon succeeded in sending many right wing dems over to the gop. The dems need to force this to happen again, and rid the party of its prowar malingerers. As much as Ron Paul, and Justin Raimondo here, attempted to establish an antiwar faction within the GOP, they failed, or should I say, the gop electorate failed. Kudos for the attempt.
It really doesn’t matter anymore Dave, we live in a plutocracy now.
I guess, but if only 12 % more of congress votes antiwar, trumps prowar veto is overridden and US help for Saudis ends, then the Yemen war ends. Then congress can go after Syria, or somewhere else until the war on terror authorization garners enough votes to put an end to the whole thing. That’s why votes matter, and we are not a plutocracy. Problem is, the US militancy have people convinced the parties are the same regarding war, when nothing could be further from the truth.
“What is the urgency in pushing for war?”
To cover up the crimes committed by him and his friends.
Pompeo, like his fellow traveler Bolton, is not going to rest until he has American blood on his hands. He wants a war on his resume so badly he’s willing to sacrifice our sons and daughters- or mothers and fathers- to the Gods of War.
No. The world has the responsibility to confront the biggest murdering cabal since WWII ended–the US, UK, Israel, France and Saudi Arabia.
The “World” must confront Iran
is this “double-talk” for The “World” must confront Iran, because the US
is not going to be able or even willing to do so;
in spite of all the provocations coming from Israel, Saudis
Here’s hoping that every member of the US military, from generals on down, think about the implications of what Pompeo is proposing, that we start a catastrophic war that will undoubtedly go nuclear within days and will result in the deaths of millions of people and the destruction of the world’s economy.
You took an oath to uphold the Constitution, not to be ordered around by a mercurial president whose only concern is staying in office for another four years. Just like his buddy Netanyahu, he’s beholden to his own survival, not to the nation he leads and is not above bringing the house down on himself, the ultimate Samson Option, to stay out of prison once he leaves office. Gentlemen, do your duty and refuse to attack Iran.
The only way to have a successful revolution is for the enforcers to stop enforcing the orders of the dictatorship.
We’ll have to see if the propaganda holds up well enough to pull off the mass delusion that the planet will survive a nuclear event.
Most Republicans I know have said many times they want the Middle East “turned into glass”. If you’re hoping the American military won’t attack Iran, you have no hope at all. They will attack and they will enjoy doing so.
The Pentagon knows that the aircraft carrier USS Sitting Duck will be headed for the bottom within hours of an attack on Iran and that our troops in Iraq would be under a rain of missiles and drones that our vaunted Patriot anti-missile defense would be helpless against. However, that may be the “new Pearl Harbor” that Pompeo is hoping for.
martyrs for the cause, they died to protect our freedoms.
The Deep State Complex, is way above political party labels.
The US military has been nothing but global banker mafia muscle since killing 200,000 Filipinos in 1899-1900 who thought they were being freed from Spain.
“a catastrophic war that will undoubtedly go nuclear within days and will
result in the deaths of millions of people and the destruction of the
world’s economy.”
I would say that is overstating the case. Unless Russia and China directly intervene militarily – which is unlikely except in the case of an extension of the war to Syria, which *is* quite possible and could lead to at least a conventional confrontation with Russia which could then escalate – there will be no nuclear exchanges with Iran by the main parties, i.e., the US or Israel, because neither can afford the blowback.
Also, the “world’s economy” will not be destroyed because no economy is ever “destroyed”. There probably will be a massive recession or even a depression that affects most of the world, but that is not the same as “destroyed.” People use that term often but it’s not accurate.
The military will obey the President, no matter what he orders – unfortunately. But that is how the US works. So it’s pointless to ask them to do other than resign, as Napoleon suggested they should. And since they will not bear any public responsibility for the war, they won’t resign, either, other than a few. A few more might get fired from their posts, but that’s about it.
There is absolutely no one who can stop the Iran war from starting, least of all the US electorate.
Now he wants to dictate his neocon vision to US puppets and vassal states.
Pompous Pompeo should’ve been fired the same time as Bonkers Bolton, Jim Bim, He’s been advocating the same suicidal attack on Iran as Bonkers had been doing.
It’s not DJT who wants war with Iran, it’s Pompous Pompeo .. I suggest he be given a uniform, helmet, rifle with 2 rounds of ammunition, and a parachute, and be dropped close to an Iranian military base. I’d surely love to see his face when IRGC forces approach him.
I agree Eileen, Trump wants to give him even more powers, by adding Boltons job to his Sec. of state title. Firing Bolton was just a stunt, the neocons in the admin. have the same powers without him.
DJT just wants to destroy them with sanctions until they give in to our every demand. Maybe we should drop DJT close to some neighborhood that his sanctions have impoverished. I’d love to see his face when a horde of people that can no longer care for their families approach him.
“He said Iran has been behaving this way for 40 years”
What he means is that we haven’t had a puppet dictator in Iran for 40 years.
Iran bruised a lot of really huge ego’s when it threw out the last corporate fascist dictator and that means revenge must be served within the lifetime of as many of those bruised ego’s as possible.
Our selected officials and extra constitutionally appointed think tank psychopaths are in actuality very petty and get obsessed over having their image tarnished by people who refuse to bow to their perceived superiority.
“Other officials are emphasizing the number of US sanctions”
Perhaps we should sanction Pompuss’s doughnut supply ????
Killing other people is what democracies must do. It is the way of righteousness and very profitable. It is fun too. Any follower of rifleman Jesus will back this up.Pompeo is merely voiccing today’s morality.
He would be right if he just does one simple trade. Trade the word iran for the usa nad he’s spot on …l
By “world,” Mike Pompass means America, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and a few other vassal nations in Europe or other shithole countries.
In other words, the true Axis of Evil .
So what has changed since “bonkers Bolton” was fired or resigned? I guess
‘Ding Dong the wicked witch is dead’ didn’t play out after all. Still waiting for a good cop to make an appearance but lo and behold, none exist.
Things are still shitty but we’re not on the edge of armageddon anymore either. I didn’t things to change so quickly post-Bolton but it makes somewhat of a difference that he’s gone. Despite all the pomposity from Pompeo war is highly unlikely. Even otherwise warhawk Republicans in the Senate besides Lindsey Graham obviously aren’t too excited by the idea of a conflict.
“war is highly unlikely”
The fact that some random Republicans aren’t happy about starting a war before the election doesn’t mean it can’t happen. They still are opposed to Iran exactly like Pompeo.
And if a war does start, they will be solidly behind Trump and continuing the war.
I never said they weren’t still committed to an anti-Iran push.
The pomposity from Pompeo is the same that was coming from Bolton. Trump is commander in chief. If a war would have started while Bolton was there, it would have been on Trump’s say so. If we were in danger because Trump could have been talked into war if Bolton had stayed, I don’t know why we shouldn’t still fear the same thing but just from a different source. And there are plenty of sources to pick from, including the aforementioned Pompeo who Trump has said he never argues with.
Lets confront the real terrorism, US, UK, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Oh wait, we live in a nation primarily composed of insouciant amnesic apathetic imbeciles who get their daily bread from the ministry of truth via the censorship giants, Google, FB, Wikipedia and the prestitutes of MSM. A list too long……..
“Play it again, Sam” – the trope (warmongering media’s favorite word for a week a few months ago) is “It isn’t us, it’s the WORLD against Saddam”/
“as have a number of other officials”
Who would be who? Most of the administration – including Trump, other than actually having ordered the war (as far as we know, so far) – and most of Congress are fully on board with his statements about Iran.
People keep begging for some reason to see an end to this confrontation other than war, without the slightest evidence that it can.
And the rest of the world is like fuck off bitch. We’re not interested.
Neocons should be arrested and executed
OK, tried first for their war crimes and sponsorship of terrorism. Then they should be delivered to any of our victim countries, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen. Hell let’s bring non-Middle East countries in, Libya, Somalia, Niger. Pick them out of a hat for each neocon to be delivered to them.