Here are some hard facts of what we know so far about the war with Iran in Day 3:
- The Iranian people have NOT risen up to overthrow their regime. It’s pretty tough for an unarmed people to rise up when there are bombs falling.
- Neither Trump or the White House have given a serious justification for the war; the reasons for the war keep changing; Sec. Hegsleth this morning said it is “not about regime change.”
- At least 4 American service people have been killed.
- It’s estimated that 555 Iranians have been killed, including 185 in a single strike on a southern Iranian girls’ school.
- 2,000 targets in Iran have been hit by US or Israeli bombs, missiles or drones.
- Iran has widened its retaliation and the war has spread to the entire region. Hezbolla has attacked Israel and Israel has retaliated with strikes in Lebanon.
- Travel, airports in the region are in chaos. 1,000s of people have been stranded.
- Oil/ gas prices will be rising; Iran has blocked the Straits of Hormuz, where 20% of the world’s oil travels through on the way to markets.
- Congressional Democrats are planning to force a vote on the War Powers resolution ASAP.
- 3 US jets were struck down by “friendly fire” from Kuwait.
They struck because they had an opportunity to take out 40 government/theocracy and military leaders. If that’s not regime change, it certainly rhymes with it.
Trump’s Board of Peace (his ‘pay-$1-billion-to-play-club’) should be renamed “Bored of Peace.”
Two more American service members have been killed in the war in Iran, U.S. military officials said Monday afternoon. That brings the number of dead troops so far to six.
I think the Secretary of War is hedging his bets, and thinking about what his defense will be when he is brought before the International Criminal Court. Regime change by assassination is against international law.
Exiting a classified briefing on Iran with senior Trump administration officials, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, said he “found their answers completely and totally insufficient” and said that the briefing “raised more questions” for him about the military operations in the Middle East.