Congress needs to take action to stop president who is a danger to US and world

Editor:

By the time I was done reading about the bombing of a girls’ school in Minab, Iran, on Saturday morning, Trump/Netanyahu supporters were already hard at work running cover.

“You believe Iranian state media?” “You’re telling me they were in school on Saturday?” “Oh, did you forget war is hell?” American media would wait to report on the school children we killed until Sunday, when the death toll had reached well over one hundred. Now we have videos, evidence, photos of bloody backpacks, and all those Trump/Netanyahu supporters have to say is…

Well that’s the obvious problem; they can’t get their story straight. Why were suddenly bombing dozens of sites across Iran? Trump said it was so they couldn’t make nukes. This, despite the fact Ted Cruz told the media he’d seen no evidence Iran was rebuilding what we apparently “obliterated” last June (the “12 Day War”), and despite the fact that negotiators told CBS news the day before that the US and Iran had come to a framework for a nuclear deal more comprehensive and secure even the historic and durable one Obama signed in 2015, and despite the fact that last spring Trump’s own Director of National Intelligence said, “Iran not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamanei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.”

To hear others tell it, the reason Trump was now killing civilians in Iran and admitting American soldiers would have to die (Trump: “That’s just the way it is”) was that Iran was a brutal regime that kills its own citizens. If that’s a legitimate reason for war, I think we have to start a lot more wars. If Trump cared about the deaths of protestors, he wouldn’t have blamed Alex Pretti for legally carrying a firearm while trying to help a woman abused by an ICE officer.

Others say we had to bomb Iran because the Ayatollah was a religious zealot who says “Death to America.” Has anyone heard the way our own government officials speaks about other countries and entire ethnicities?

Does anyone remember that Iran was a democracy in 1951 when Mossadegh was voted in on a platform of nationalizing Iran’s oil? The CIA created a coup and installed a literal King whose police state brutalized Iranians for decades before a religious movement overthrew him. Trump and his cronies are the last people I want to hear talk about Democracy; anyone paying attention can see this is part of his broad, chaotic attempt to stop future elections (just listen to the pro-Trump attorneys pushing him to sign an executive order to declare an election-stopping emergency over “Chinese election interference in 2020”).

There are no good reasons for this war. Iran is not a threat to us.

There are not good reasons to bomb a school. Children are not a threat to us.

There are no good reasons to close the entry points to Gaza and stop the World Central Kitchen from feeding the starving Palestinian people. Palestinians are not a threat to us.

Trump is a threat to us. We’ve already seen US soldiers die. Praying won’t save them. The only thing that can is an act of Congress. Use the 25th amendment because he’s clearly lost touch with reality, or impeach him, again.

Tyler Barton

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