Bombing Iran

Yesterday I was writing a long post about history when I heard Trump had started a war with Iran. So I decided to finish my post instead of immediately responding. It didn't make it any better, but maybe I felt slightly more in control of my own life.

Overnight, The Onion put together a full-page ad and got it into the Sunday New York Times. It ran across from a page of credulous coverage of the U.S. bombing in Iran:


Here's what BlueSky people have had to say about this illegal military action... in mostly chronological order. Everything below the line is quoted from the attributed account.

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Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
David Faris

You’re a special kind of delusional if you think you can bomb Iran and expect peace.
Karly Kingsley

Elect a Republican, start a war. Every Republican president since i was a child has started a new war.
Katelyn Burns

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?
Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Once again, if we were a more serious country, we would not be here right now and Iran would have been years further away from actually having nuclear weapons than it was two weeks ago. In a more serious country, unilaterally withdrawing from the JCPOA would have immediately ended Trump's first presidency and destroyed the GOP's reputation on national security policy for a generation:


Mark Copelovitch

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.
George Conway

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country.
stuff licker @nocontroller.bsky.social

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
Sen. Chris Murphy

The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act:


emptywheel

Reminder that none of this would've been possible if not for the neocons manipulating Trump's hatred of Obama to kill the JCPOA. From there, safeguards became unconstrained enrichment and all the scary things they're trotting out became possible. Be careful buying what these guys are still selling.
Andrew Facini

Donald Trump, a weak and dangerously reckless president, has put the United States on a path to a war in the Middle East that the country does not want, the law does not allow, and our security does not demand.
Sen. Chris Murphy

The JCPOA was one of the greatest diplomatic achievements of the 21st century. Multiple nations, several powerful blocks, a ton of oversight and the entire time diplomats were working it out. Domestic American media and politicians were demonizing it, lying about it, and trying to sabotage it. They won.
Nicholas Slayton

He was humiliated last weekend. This weekend he bombed someone. My guess is there is a relationship between those two events.
Jen Mercieca

The President is slashing government services, sending troops into US cities to abduct people, illegally bombing Iran, and the Democratic Party is mobilizing its full might to … stop New York City from electing a mildly left-leaning mayor.
Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social

Just a reminder going forward... (cartoon from 2003):


Ann Telnaes

The thing about going to war with this crew is they are universally inveterate liars. They will lie about the losses, the successes, and the costs. Believe nothing they tell you.
Gillian Branstetter

War is the worst thing humans do and those who encourage it are the worst people among us.
Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul

Last night, Trump said Iran’s nuclear program was “completely and totally obliterated.” This morning, JD Vance says we will “permanently dismantle that nuclear program over the coming years.” Which is it? Sounds like more endless war against the will of the American people.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Vance: "I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents." [Yes, he really did say this on national television today.]
Acyn

what a fucking joke...that could lead to a global war. i'm ashamed.
Sarah Goodyear

Aged like milk:


Grant Stern

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social

The attacks on Iran aren’t just another test of our constitutional checks and balances, but the relevance of popular sovereignty at all. Do we really rule ourselves when our opinions are irrelevant?
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com

Man fuck these Nazis. No war:


Wes Burdine