>>24343904 (Typical opinions by know it alls!

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Politics is the art of compromise—but it shouldn’t involve sacrificing first principles.

It’s an old adage that politics is the art of compromise, of wheeling and dealing between disparate views to advance your own. That truism has always made politics a difficult fit for ideologues seeking to wield substantial power. And everyone in politics must determine how far they’re willing to compromise to be productive before violating their own principles or even losing their soul to the process.

It’s clear that after this weekend and the joint, unprovoked American–Israeli attack on Iran, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard must choose to resign or forfeit any respectability in the America First movement.

She has chosen principle over power before, and we must ask her to do it again.

The youngest woman ever elected to a state legislature, Gabbard chose to forgo reelection to the Hawaii House of Representatives so she could participate in a deployment to Iraq as a member of the Hawaii National Guard. “My goal is to actually be of service, not just to hold onto my position,” the 23-year-old said at the time. (Lt. Col. Gabbard remains an active member of the National Guard.)

Elected to Congress in 2012, Gabbard was initially toasted by Democratic leadership in Washington who tripped over themselves to elevate a woman of color and war veteran. As a freshman she was unanimously elected as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, but she resigned in February 2016 to endorse the progressive presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders. She forfeited any goodwill she had with the party establishment when she publicly criticized the DNC for violating its supposed neutrality and putting its finger on the scale in favor of eventual nominee Hillary Clinton.

Years later, during her own insurgent presidential campaign in 2020, Gabbard effectively conceded her ability to seek reelection in the House when she truthfully labeled Clinton “the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long…”

More than any presidential candidate since Dr. Ron Paul—whose 90th birthday she attended last year—Gabbard branded herself as an opponent of Washington’s global empire and the endless wars in the Middle East.

As I reported for The American Conservative in 2020, her campaign was not uniformly anti-interventionist—her complaint was always more about wars on behalf of Al Qaeda than wars against it,and she held to the opinion that the motivation for terrorism was Islamic extremism, rather than seeing it as blowback for past interventions. But her rallying to the antiwar cause was unmistakable, particularly on Iran.

“This president and his chickenhawk cabinet have led us to the brink of war with Iran,” she declared on the Democratic debate stage in 2019, indicting Donald Trump during his first term. “The American people need to understand that this war with Iran would be far more devastating, far more costly than anything that we ever saw in Iraq. It would take many more lives, it would exacerbate the refugee crisis, and it wouldn’t be just contained within Iran. This would turn into a regional war. This is why it’s so important that every one of us, every single American stand up and say, ‘No war with Iran.’”

“No war with Iran” read the t-shirts Gabbard sold on her campaign website, something that’s become a viral meme since Saturday.

Fast forward four years, and Tulsi Gabbard was now a member of the Republican Party, campaigning alongside Donald Trump, who promised to “expel the warmongers, the profiteers, and take over our government and we will restore world peace and it will be again, peace through strength.”

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At that same event, in front of the National Guard Association, Tulsi explained, “This is one of the main reasons why I’m committed to doing all that I can to send President Trump back to the White House where he can once again serve us as our commander-in-chief.Because I am confident that his first task will be to do the work to walk us back from the brink of war. We cannot be prosperous unless we are at peace…”

“We're uniting forces to end the endless foreign wars,” Trump said as they shared the stage, and after his November victory, he nominated Gabbard to serve as Director of National Intelligence.

Since her appointment, she’s attempted to find an uneasy balance between the White House line and her own career-defining beliefs.

During her confirmation hearing she had to reverse her longtime opposition to key provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but even under pressure from both Republican and Democratic senators, she refused to label Edward Snowden a traitor or condemn his exposure of mass, illegal surveillance by the National Security Agency.

Gabbard’s tenure has not been without success. Her declassification and presentation of a staff oversight report produced by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence exposed meddling by the Obama White House in proffering their insufficiently evidenced conclusions that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election and conspired with Donald Trump’s campaign.

She became the highest-level American official to use “the most humane and regretful language” in describing the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as I described in TAClast year. That remembrance gave her a platform to warn about the prospect of “nuclear annihilation” today, which “incensed” President Trump.

Prior to the 12-Day War last June, when Israel first attacked Iran and was later joined by the United States for the stated purpose of eliminating Tehran’s ability to enrich uranium at any level, Gabbard confirmed in congressional testimony that Iran “is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.” That’s the same conclusion her predecessors had reached for 20 years.

But when Trump undermined her influence, telling reporters flatly, “I don’t care what she says,” Gabbard tried to straddle the fence. She said that Iran “can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months, if they decide to finalize the assembly.” That was a restatement of her initial conclusion reworded to give cover to the president.

When the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordow and Natanz, there was public discussion over whether Gabbard was on her way out, and disappointment from her former supporters that she was not taking a more forthright stand on the facts.

But she’s remained in charge of the intelligence community, and in October, during a security summit in Bahrain, she gave a full-throated condemnation of neoconservative arrogance in foreign policy:

For decades, our foreign policy has been trapped in a counterproductive and endless cycle of regime change or nation-building. It was a one-size-fits-all approach of toppling regimes, trying to impose our system of governance on others, intervening in conflicts that were barely understood, and walking away with more enemies than allies. The result: trillions spent, countless lives lost, and in many cases, a creation of greater security threats, the rise of Islamist terrorist groups like ISIS.

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Evidently, that’s not what the Trump White House and their Israeli allies wanted to hear. The administration “excluded Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard from months of planning to oust Nicolas Maduro because her previous opposition to military action in Venezuela cast doubt on her willingness to support the operation,” reportedBloomberg News in January. White House aides joked that DNI had come to stand for “Do Not Invite.”

But after Saturday, all the chips are down. Ayatollah Khamenei is dead and the purpose of the war is complete regime change in Tehran. Israel’s strategic goal—demonstrated by their defenestration of civilian leadership, including former heads of state and even imprisoned opposition leaders—is the destruction of Iran as a coherent, functional state. That result will allow them to conduct periodic bombing campaigns to destroy civilian infrastructure and cause terror, as Tel Aviv has continued to do in Lebanon and Syria after their defense capabilities were wrecked, all in service to Zionist hegemony in the Middle East.

As Gabbard predicted years ago, Iran has responded by expanding the conflict into a regional war, striking the Gulf Arab states, closing the Strait of Hormuz, and targeting U.S. bases—which has resulted in dead American soldiers. There is nothing more of value that Gabbard can render to this administration without sacrificing her own credibility.

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a MAGA diehard who had her own falling out with Trump last year over the 12-Day War and the attempted Jeffrey Epstein coverup, challenged Gabbard and Vice President J.D. Vance to speak out publicly against the war.

There is precedent.

When Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1912, he selected three-time Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan as his secretary of state. The two worked together cordially and effectively until the outbreak of World War I in Europe. Bryan insisted on true neutrality, and he favored warning American citizens against traveling on belligerent ships through war zones and prohibiting American passenger ships from carrying ammunition.

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Typical of Conservatives, attack conservatives, plus they’ve got all the solutions to war without knowing what the President and his Admin knows!.

==But most importantly Iran has been at war with America for decades. They basically are the Yin to Israel’s Yang. If you want to blame this war and other war, blame Israel, they want to kill all races, and no one complains about their admissions!

The EconomistNWO loves money and especially when there is a war. Money grubbers loves this war!

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The Iran war has been a stunning aerial success

Even if, at the political level, its direction is a mess

On march 4th a pilot in the Israeli Air Force became the first member of his service to score an air-to-air kill in more than 40 years. It was hardly a fair fight. His f-35, one of the world’s most advanced warplanes, shot down an Iranian Yak-130, originally designed as a training jet. “We are punching them while they’re down,” declared Pete Hegseth, America’s secretary of war, “which is exactly how it should be”.

The lopsided encounter embodies the American and Israelicampaign as a whole. At the political level, American officials have offered dubious and sometimes contradictory rationales for war, as well as war aims that shift daily. By contrast, the military campaign evinces careful planning, massive firepower and overwhelming success.

In a video put out on March 3rd, Admiral Brad Cooper, the commander of the Pentagon’s Central Command (centcom), which oversees military operations in the Middle East, claimed that in four days America had attacked almost 2,000 targets, including 17 ships, among them a submarine.

Also on March 3rd an American submarine appears to have attacked and sunk an Iranian frigate near Sri Lankan waters, some 3,000km from Iran (see video below)—America’s first use of a torpedo since 1945.The first day of the war was “nearly double the scale” of America’s “shock and awe” attack on Iraq in 2003, said Admiral Cooper. Israel’s bombing is even more intense. The country is striking around 1,000 targets a day, according to the Israel Defence Forces (idf), a rate of bombing enabled by American tankers refuelling Israeli jets.

The willingness of America and Israel to start the war in broad daylight on February 28th was shaped by the opportunity to kill Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader.

The brazenness reflected the dire state of Iran’s air defences, which were mostly dismantled in last year’s 12-day war. After the first wave of strikes—which, to preserve an element of surprise, were conducted by long-range missiles fired by stealthy planes and distant warships—America and Israel have been able to get their planes over their targets.

That allows them to use cheaper and more numerous guided bombs rather than relying on scarce, expensive “stand-off” munitions. “We have a nearly unlimited stockpile” of these, Mr Hegseth boasted. Israeli officers joke that, unlike their previous strikes on Iran, this is a “war in English”, planned in lockstep with America.

Discussions began last summer, after the 12-day war, but joint-strike plans were developed after Eyal Zamir, the idf’s chief of staff, visited the Pentagon in January. The two countries have divided Iran into large zones which they call ballistic-missiles operation areas, or bmoas.

Israel deals with western and central Iran, including Tehran, the capital; America handles southern Iran and its adjacent waters. Israel is largely flying over Syria; America largely from Jordanian bases and from the uss Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea and uss Gerald Ford in the Mediterranean.

Though both countries are attacking missile launchers (“hundreds”, according to Admiral Cooper), the division of labour is one reason why Israel has focused on regime targets.

They include a gathering of the Assembly of Experts, a body to choose the next supreme leader, on March 3rd and Basijparamilitary forces on March 4th.

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Meanwhile, America has concentrated on Iran’s navy. The division also reflects the relative risk appetite of each country, says Martin Sampson of the iiss, a think-tank, who served as an air marshal in the Royal Air Force, with Israel willing to fly single-engined jets deep into Iran, where search-and-rescue teams would struggle to recover downed pilots.

The war plans involve several phases. Two have been implemented. The first was the opening strike on February 28th.

The second was the subsequent 100 hours, in which Israel attacked its highest priority targets out of fear that President Donald Trump might call an early end to the war.

A third phase, of lower priority targets, is now under way. Planners say there are sufficient American and Israeli targets for four or five weeks of war, a timeline that Mr Trump has also mused about.

“We will now begin to expand inland,” said General Dan Caine, America’s chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, speaking alongside Mr Hegseth on March 4th, “striking progressively deeper into Iranian territory.”

Most nuclear targets are earmarked for later in the conflict. That is in part because—despite misleading claims by American officials—Iran has done little to those sites since last year’s war, apart from piling soil on top of the bomb craters.

Nonetheless, on March 3rd Israel said it had attacked the Min Zadai complex on the north-east edge of Tehran, which it claims was a covert facility related to nuclear-weapons development.

The target bank includes not only more missile and nuclear sites, but also every Islamic Revolutionary Guard (irgc) headquarters across Iran—a clear sign that the aim is both to degrade its military capabilities and cause the regime to collapse.

There have been serious mistakes. More than 160 people were killed in a strike on a girls’ school on February 28th. America says the matter is under investigation.But the war has mostly gone as planned.

“This is incredibly well integrated and thought through as a deliberate campaign,” says Mr Sampson, who previously led British air operations against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

The war could soon shift, he says, from largely pre-planned and mostly static targets to what air planners call “dynamic” ones, including new targets not identified before the war.

Britain’s decision to grant America permission to use Diego Garcia, a vital airbase in the Indian Ocean, will help. By flying from there, rather than from the American continent, America can increase the rate of flights, re-use crews more often and draw on a deep magazine of weapons on the island.

American bombers can then handle “deliberate” targeting, says Mr Sampson, while fighter jets can “move around much more freely and have a bit more tactical freedom” to strike targets spotted by drones and surveillance planes.

These are likely to begin operating further east, closer to Iran. Already, the war has become a showcase for new, exotic and unusual weaponry.

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At the bottom end, America has debuted its ​​Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (lucas), a cheap-ish, long-range strike drone.

That it should be flying into Iran is ironic, given that lucas is an American knock-off of the Iranian-designed Shahed-136 projectiles used by Russia in Ukraine.

Advocates of “precise mass”, the idea that the Pentagon should rely more on low-cost, high-quantity munitions, are pleased. At the top end, America has also used its Prsm ballistic missiles for the first time.

These missiles, with a range of 500km and fired from himars launchers in Bahrain, would have been illegal to build and deploy had Mr Trump not abrogated the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (inf) Treaty with Russia in his first term.

And in its opening salvo against Khamenei and his cabinet,Israel is thought to have used large numbers of air-launched ballistic missiles, an unusual category of weapon that only China and Russia also possess.

On top of that, America is thought to have employed Claude, an artificial-intelligence model, to process intelligence, select targets and carry out military simulations—all amid a blazing political row with Anthropic, the model’s creator.

America and Israel have so far enjoyed considerable operational success.Iran’s political leadership is in turmoil, with the next supreme leader—Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba, is one of the rumoured candidates—also marked for assassination, according to Israel Katz, Israel’s defence minister. General Caine said that Iranian ballistic-missile launches were down 86% from the first day of the war, with a 23% fall between March 3rd and 4th alone.

Drone attacks, he added, were down 73%. Most importantly, perhaps,Israeli intelligence sources suggest that there are signs of Iranian soldiers, police officers and irgc members failing to show up for duty.

For all that, military attrition, however overwhelming and effective, by no means guarantees the regime’s demise—Israel’s key war aim, and one of Mr Trump’s ever-shifting goals. ■

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The mission was to conquer not to enjoy war, there seems like jubilation because of the arms and equipment, I hope this doesn’t lead to searching for more wars.

>>24343171, >>24343354, >>24343362 Trump uses defense production act to grant immunity to Producers of GlyphosatePN

So now we are pardoning companies that knowingly lied and killed are still killing mostly farmers. Reduced the age men die at with farms to 60, whereas it was 70-77 years old before releasing Chiang on the country, our food, our children’s health etc etc etc

I haven’t read the article but this seems what a democrat would do.

Next time he wants to pardon corporations make it mandatory to poll the American Public, and get their opinions. This is sickening. I heard they just renamed “round up” with that name, to fool the buyers.