Where are the WMDs?

Where are the WMDs?

By Cliff Kincaid

I have one question: where are the WMDs in Iran?  Will someone please show me the evidence?

With Iranian missiles raining down on American military bases in the region, the question takes on more importance.

The last time Iran hit one of these bases, the January 8, 2020, Iranian ballistic missile attack on Al Assad Air Base in Iraq, no U.S. service members were killed but many were treated for concussion-related symptoms caused by blast waves.

I thought we had a new president who came into office complaining about the U.S. military intervention in Iraq, based on finding WNDs that did not exist. At the time, most Americans supported the invasion of Iraq and believed the narrative that Iraq was building or possessed WMDs.

This time, with many Americans remembering this deception, about 60 percent of Americans believe the U.S. military should stay out of the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict. Only 16 percent support U.S. involvement.

Despite this record of deceit by policymakers and the media, prominent spokesmen for MAGA such as Charlie Kirk and   the Breitbart “news” site have been applauding Trump’s military strikes on Iran.  

When Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction were not discovered, we were told at the time that they had been transferred to Syria. If so, that is a precedent for Iran having transferred its WMDs to Russia or some other place. So perhaps Trump bombed sites that were already evacuated.

Despite Trump’s use of bunker-busting bombs and a barrage of missiles on Iran, U.S. officials are telling the major media that “they did not know the fate of Iran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium,” to quote the New York Times.

Don’t forget the result of the Iraq intervention was turning over part of Iraq to militias controlled by Iran. In this case, the Iranian “resistance” is a Marxist Islamist group that operates under the label National Council of Resistance on Iran. It has real influence in Washington, D.C. because it buys politicians and military people through enormous speaking fees. This is what Trump means by “regime change.”

As the song by the rock band The Who put it, “Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.”

Trump says he obliterated Iran’s nuclear facilities. Let us assume they were nuclear in nature. Where is the evidence the Iranians had made the nuclear materials into a bomb?  Not even Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said that was the case. 

Did Trump trust Israeli intelligence? Let us see the evidence. Israel already has more than 100 nuclear warheads and doesn’t want any competition. I understand that. Then let them do the job. 
In this case, in contrast to Iraq, Trump didn’t even bother to get the approval of Congress.

The U.S. military strikes on Iran are being driven by Israel. I understand their concern.  If the U.S. was going to get involved, that is a decision of the U.S. Congress, not the Israeli Prime Minister. Call me old-fashioned but I thought our own Constitution was the basis for what we do as a nation.

At one time I thought geopolitical analyst Jeff Nyquist was being too harsh in his assessment that President Trump’s foreign policy was a case of “Oh Magoo, you’ve done it again.” Mr. Magoo was a cartoon character who stumbles from one funny episode to another.

But this is not funny.

If Trump wants to bomb countries with nuclear facilities and nuclear bombs, why didn’t he start with North Korea? Instead, in his first term, he went to North Korea and gave the North Korean dictator legitimacy. A Congressional Research Service report says that North Korea has fissile material for up to 90 warheads.

There are real WMDs in North Korea, probably supplied by Russia, and they threaten the region, including thousands of our troops in South Korea and our allies in the region.

It is sad to say but rather than focus on Greenland or Gaza, we should have been paying attention to South Korea. Now the country is lost to the Communists.  The Red Chinese took control without firing a shot.

When conservative anti-communist South Korean President Yoon Seok Yeol declared martial law on national television in December 24, the Trump Administration was silent. He described how “North Korea’s communist forces” and “anti-state” elements had infiltrated the nation. He was unfairly impeached and protests of his impeachment took place almost daily and weekly in major cities across the country. In the end, he was thrown out of office and new elections were called, leading to the communist takeover.

This may be “news” to most Americans but it is a fact nonetheless. Sensitive national security documents provided to this journalist describe what happened. We have to assume the U.S. “Intelligence Community” knew this as well.

We are now in the middle of another Middle East war with no end in sight.

In our new program, “Mr. Magoo's Iran War Blunder Benefits Moscow,” Jeff Nyquist and I offer an independent analysis of Trump’s Mr. Magoo-like decision to strike alleged WMDs in Iran, which may become a repeat of the disastrous U.S. war on Iraq that failed to find WMDs. At least Bush’s war in Iraq was approved by Congress. Trump had promised to be the peace president and vowed no more war and his act of war against Iran was not approved by Congress.

We argue that Russia is pleased by Mr. Magoo’s war on Iran because an Iranian plan to close the strait of Hormuz guarantees more oil profits for Russia to wage the war on Ukraine. Meanwhile, Iran either already has nuclear weapons in a safe location or will soon get them from Moscow. Trump’s MAGA movement is divided and the Congress was not consulted, as 60 percent oppose Trump's act of war against Iran, while DHS is warning of Iranian terror cells targeting Americans.

While President Trump’s failed efforts to resolve the Ukraine-Russia war had caught our attention, the nuclear program in Iran suddenly became a hot topic.

You may have missed the news that the Chinese Communists have seized South Korea. You may have missed that important piece of news because the media ignored it. We were treated to lies about the election of a “populist” new president in South Korea.  

The current administration seems oblivious to the Red Chinese takeover of South Korea and the election of its new president, China puppet Lee Jae-myung, and it is now too late to avoid this disaster.

As a result, I suggest saving money in the Pentagon budget by transferring our approximately 28,500 American military personnel in South Korea back to the United States for border security duty.

Today, an even greater number, about 40,000 American troops, are based in the Middle East.

Mr. Magoo, you’ve done it again.

• Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org  Read www.jrnyquist.blog and www.usasurvival.org for independent analysis.

 
 
 
 
 

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