By Michael Woyton
One billion dollars a day.
This undeclared, unwanted, unvoted for war is costing the United States taxpayers $1 billion a day.
The Senate Wednesday voted not to invoke the War Powers Act and limit the ability of president donald j. felon* to continue bombing Iran and putting our soldiers in harm’s way.
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We’ll see how it goes in the House of Representatives, which is supposed to bring a resolution “to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran” to floor for a vote Thursday.
If House Speaker Mike Johnson gets his way, it will be voted down because he said the operation — very few GOPmagas are calling it a “war” — is effective and “reversing it now would weaken America.”
A poll taken since the war began found that a majority of registered voters disapprove of the president’s handling of the operation and believe the U.S. shouldn’t have taken military action against the country, NBC News reported.
The NBC News poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters Feb. 27 to March 3.
Fifty-four percent of voters disapprove of the president’s handling of Iran, with 41 percent approving and 5 percent saying they don’t have an opinion or aren’t sure.
A majority, or 52 percent, said the U.S. should not have even started the fight.
Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies conducted the poll with Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates.
McInturff told NBC News that the findings indicated “a lower level of support than in most of the major military action that we’ve seen.”
He also said that attitudes shift in this country based on results.
“Things could get worse if the results are worse,” McInturff said, “and things certainly get better if there’s a stable, better outcome here.”
Well, so far, six U.S. soldiers have been killed and average gas prices nationally have jumped more than a quarter in the past week.
Keep in mind that there is no consistently stated rationale coming from administrative officials for the armed conflict.
The president, who campaigned on a promise of no new wars, has not seen fit to address the nation or Congress. Rather he has chosen to call various media outlets in an effort to “workshop” his plans for the conflict, according to New York Magazine.
After hunkering down at his seaside palace in Florida during the initial strikes, the golfer-in-chief released two prerecorded videos on social media.
Over the weekend, he called nearly a dozen reporters, many of whom work for outlets he says he despises: NBC, ABC, the New York Times and MS NOW among them.
Margaret Hartmann of New York Magazine’s Intelligencer said, “And Trump did not offer a clear or consistent justification for the war in these rapid-fire chats.”
She wrote that there was bad news and good news emerging from those calls to reporters.
The bad news is that the man who decided a war was necessary right now “doesn’t seem to have a clear, concise, consistent explanation for why he launched a new war in the Middle East, nor is he laser focused on the next steps.”
Sadly, the good news is that he’s “open to chatting with both friends and foes about what he should do.”
If this is the way the adjudicated rapist is choosing to conduct what might very well become World War III, nothing good is going to come from it.
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And the rich will get richer by profiting from this “military conflict.”
* I’m following what the wannabe king declared on social media that he will only refer to the Supreme Court in lowercase because he has a complete lack of respect for them after the illegal tariffs ruling.
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