Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart

Until last night, our government placed America in four, unwinnable wars over my lifetime. Two were begun by Republican presidents, one by the only man to use nuclear weapons against another nation, and one by the French in 1955, and escalated by a Texas Democrat in the mid-1960’s.

Last night, the buffoon in the White House engaged our nation in a fifth. In a joint action between the military of the United States and Israel, Iran was invaded by a massive attack from the air.

The latest polls show that only 21 percent of our nation’s people support attacks on Iran, 49 percent oppose any military action, and 30 percent say that there is not enough information to support another unwinnable war.

FOLLOWING HIS MASTER’S LEAD

Four years ago in February, Putin invaded the democratic country of Ukraine. Although Trump promised that on January 20, 2025, he would “end the war on a single day,” the invasion has actually escalated. Now he is rightfully credited with his own war crimes.

Trump’s war is unique in the fact that his is a direct violation of the Constitution and the powers granted to a president. Only Congress can declare a war.

[Article I, Section 8, Clause 11:

The Congress shall have Power . . . To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; . . .]

Trump isn’t concerned. His Supreme Court gave him absolute immunity in 2024.

WARS ACCOMPLISH ONLY ONE THING: THOSE INVESTED IN THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX BECOME RICHER

“War does not determine who is right—only who is left” (Bertrand Russell) and “Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind” (John F. Kennedy),

Another Republican moron has unilaterally decided to murder civilians in another nation, and send our own young men and women to their deaths to satisfy his ego, and mask his desperation to hide the truth about his alleged acts of pedophilia.

MADE-UP REASONS FOR AMERICA’S LAST FIVE FAILURES INVOLVING MILITARY ACTION

In 1950, Harry Truman, the only president, the only world leader, to use nuclear weapons against innocent men, women, and children in Japan, sent American forces to defend South Korea from an invasion by the Communists in the north.

Although an agreement was signed in 1953 to “end hostile actions between the North and South,” the war technically remains in progress. A peace agreement has never been reached between the two.

The French began military action in Indochina in 1955. The first American combat forces, numbering 3,500, arrived to protect U.S. military bases in the region in 1965. As our military was literally “getting their asses kicked,” Lyndon Johnson continued to add America’s military to South Vietnam until the number reached nearly 550,000 in 1968 and 1969.

To this day no legitimate reason has been given for this deadly war which ended in disgrace and shame in 1975.

After the cowardly attacks on 9/11, George W. Bush learned that the architect of the murders was a member of the Saudi Royal Family, Osama bin Laden, was hiding in caves in the mountains surrounding Afghanistan. He sent military forces to capture or kill the leader of Al Qaeda.

When Pakistan demanded a halt to the raid, claiming that the location where bin Laden was hiding was on Pakistani soil, Bush ended the mission. However, he left forces behind and the war lasted until August of 2021 when President Biden brought our military personnel home.

In 2003, Trump and several members of his administration stood before the television cameras, Congress, and the United Nations, claiming that the leader of Iraq, Sadam Hussein, was hiding “weapons of mass destruction” for Al Qaeda.

He ordered the invasion of Iraq in March of 2003. The war officially ended in December of 2011.

MORE LIES FROM THE MOST PRODIGIOUS LIAR IN WORLD HISTORY

In June of 2025, Trump ordered attacks on three nuclear development sites in Iran. He claimed that they were “totally obliterated.” If this was true, what is his reason for attacking Iran in the early morning hours of February 28, 2026?

There are only two answers to this question and only one has validity.

First, Iran rebuilt their nuclear weapons capability at an impossible rate of speed.

Second, he lied about the destruction in 2025, and this is another attempt to hide the truth revealed in the unredacted version of the Trump-Epstein Files.

You figure it out. I already know the truth.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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Sources: ms.now: “U.S. launches ‘major combat operations’ in Iran, Trump says”

apnews.com: “Live updates: Iran’s foreign minister says supreme leader and president are alive, ‘as far as I know’”