Boy, I’m glad that we have won the war!

Boy, I’m glad that we have won the war!

Word is that the president himself came up with the name “Epic Fury” for his war on Iran. That’s appropriate in that “epic fury” is what the president seems to display regarding most of his time in office.

Trump says we have won the war in Iran so I guess it is time to go home. But then why is the Pentagon deploying 3,000 Airborne to the Gulf? The Wall Street Journal says that Tehran thinks its winning. So who is lying? It is notable that after saying that we have won Trump issued a 48 hour threat to bomb Iran’s energy infrastructure if Iran didn’t open the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians told him to go pound sand and let the 48 hours lapse. Trump then said that he is delaying the bombing because constructive talks were taking place with Iranian leaders. Trump tweeted “I AM PLEASED TO REPORT THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND THE COUNTRY OF IRAN, HAVE HAD, OVER THE LAST TWO DAYS, VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS REGARDING A COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION OF OUR HOSTILITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST.” Trump said Trump said U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner spoke with some unidentified leader in the Iranian regime. “They want very much to make a deal. We’d like to make a deal, too,” Trump told reporters. “If negotiations fall apart, we’ll just keep bombing our little hearts out.” Meanwhile, the Iranians called Trump a liar. Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s parliament said “no negotiations have been held with the US.” Iran’s foreign ministry also denied Trump’s claims about negotiations.

The New York Times accused Trump of lying. No surprise there since they have catalogued Trump lying at least 30,000 times during his time as president. Why would Trump lie when the lie is so blatant? More than likely, Witkoff and Kushner could be talking to someone in Iran who may or may not speak for the mullahs. Regardless, the Pentagon is sending 3,000 Airborne troops to the Gulf. BTW, I have two cousins who are retired airborne. One is 100% disabled from jumping out of airplanes. He would do it again. His brother commenting on the deployment simply said “We are the tool that covers the president’s butt.” That’s the saying of “Don’t write a check that your butt can’t cash.” So we obviously have not won. 

But here are just a few of the morsels uttered by our president regarding his war on Iran.

When will the war end? Trump said it will only end “when I feel it in my bones”.

“We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil. Then, I think you’ll see it’s going to be a short-term excursion.”

“I think the war is very complete, pretty much — they have no navy, no communications, they’ve got no air force, their missiles are down to a scatter, their drones are being blown up all over the place including their manufacturing of drones — if you look, they have nothing left.”  

 “If you look, they have nothing left. There’s nothing left in a military sense.”

“Together with our Israeli partners, we’re crushing the enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force.” 

“Iran’s drone and missile capability is being utterly demolished. The Navy is gone. It’s all lying at the bottom of the ocean. 46 ships. Can you believe it?” He added that the U.S. “got rid of about 80% of” Iran’s missile launchers.

“We’re going to have a much safer world as soon as it’s finished. It’s going to be finished pretty quickly.”

“We are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East.”

“The Hormuz Strait will have to be guarded and policed, as necessary, by other Nations who use it — The United States does not!”

“We could have dialogue, but I don’t want to do a ceasefire. You know you don’t do a ceasefire when you’re literally obliterating the other side.”

“They don’t have a navy. They don’t have an air force. They don’t have any equipment.” 

“I think we’ve won. All they’re doing is blocking up the Strait. But from a military standpoint, they’re finished.”

“Because of the fact that we have had such Military Success, we no longer ‘need,’ or desire, the NATO Countries’ assistance — WE NEVER DID! Likewise, Japan, Australia, or South Korea. In fact, speaking as President of the United States of America, by far the Most Powerful Country Anywhere in the World, WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE!”

“I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need,”

“All of the NATO allies agreed with us, but they don’t want to — despite the fact that we’ve helped them so much, we have thousands of soldiers in different countries all over the world — they don’t want to help us, which is amazing.”

 “NATO’s making a very foolish mistake.” Asked if he was considering pulling out of NATO, Trump said he was not currently considering the move but said it was “certainly something that we should think about.”

“So, we need, I, I would really, I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory because it is their territory, it’s the place from which they get their energy and they should come and they should help us protect it.”

“We are now the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world. We are independent and we do not need Middle East oil. You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all because we don’t need it.”

 “We’ve won, let me tell you, we’ve won. You never like to say too early you won, we won… in the first hour it was over.”

Lastly, if we have already won, then why did Trump give the Iranians a15 point ceasefire plan – which they rejected? I think it is pretty clear that Iran doesn’t think that it has lost. It is still shooting missiles at Israel and at the Gulf States. It also launched a missile (that it said it didn’t have) at the US base Diego Garcia, some 2,500 miles away prompting some panic in the UK which has no missile defense whatsoever. I guess the Brits think that we are their missile defense. I think it is important to realize that in the eyes of the Iranians, victory is just survival. When the US gets tired and goes away, Iran will rebuild and again be a threat to Israel and to the US. I wonder if the day will come when the Israelis simply get tired of Iran and drop a few tactical nukes on it?