Trump, in his incoherent and venomous address to the nation about the immoral US-Israeli war of aggression against the people of Iran, promised to commit even more war crimes.
But this is not who most Americans are.
In his speech, clearly revealing the terrorism being carried out by the US government, the deranged occupant of the White House said that if Iran doesn’t submit to US and Israeli dictates, “we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously…We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong.”
Secretary of War (Crimes) Pete Hegseth has been even more belligerent in recent weeks, saying there will be “no quarter, no mercy for our enemies,” and “We will hunt you down. Without apology and without hesitation, we will kill you.” This religious fanatic publicly prayed recently for God to give US soldiers “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.”
Writing for Zeteo, Mahmoud Aslan noted that the U.S. and Israel have struck more than 750 schools, over 300 healthcare centers, and 90,000-plus homes in Iran.
“The US and Israel have destroyed or damaged more than 115,000 civilian structures, Iran’s Red Crescent Society says – leaving behind a system of chaos, with hospitals, schools, water plants, and civilian roadways turned to dust or rendered useless,” Aslan wrote. “But the toll goes far beyond the loss of structures: The chaos has put enormous pressure on the country’s healthcare workers and first responders, disrupted education for students at every level, and displaced hundreds of thousands, inflicting both physical and psychological trauma that will take many years to recover from, if Iranians can at all.”
Maryam Mirjafari, a pediatrician at the Children’s ICU, Mofid Hospital in Iran, tells Dawn News English, “Sadly, we have seen many children, even infants under six months old. Some, unfortunately, never even made it to the ICU. When they arrived at the emergency department, they were already deceased.”
Who are the Iranian people?
This is a war of aggression against a civilization that is some 7,000 years old, has contributed tremendously to humanity in art, philosophy, literature and science, and which posed no threat to the US or anyone else. This war is being waged on behalf of billionaires who want to control the world by controlling Middle East oil, and controlling Iran is key to this.
This is just the latest US war in decades of such wars – Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Gaza and more, including most recently Venezuela and the threat to invade Cuba.
Do we want to be known to the world as thugs who threaten the world at gunpoint, as the rogue state that ignores international law and declares, “We can take anything we want, kill whoever we want?” This is not how we want to relate to the rest of humanity.
As one speaker at the recent No Kings rally put it, “These people, these monsters in charge, they don’t just get to destroy our country. Who do these people think they are? How dare they commit war crimes in our name? How dare they put armed soldiers in our streets to brutalize our citizens while sending our sons and daughters to die in another useless war for profit?”
The resistance is escalating. There are reports of many soldiers questioning this war and exercising their right to refuse immoral orders. We, the people, can back them up and stop these wars, urging that our sons and daughters not go to this war. We can help build the growing anti-war movement. Signs at the huge No Kings protests demanded money be spent on healthcare, and food, on human needs, not war. We can demand Congress vote against the additional $200 billion proposed for the war, and vote for proposals to stop all military aid to Israel. We are better than the billionaires and their thug politicians. The future hinges on what we do now to ramp up the resistance. Nobody is coming to save save us. We have to save ourselves.
