Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran

I Know, You Want To Sing It, But for Brian’s Sake, Please Don’t

So, that happened.

As we mostly all said it would.

As Republicans said it wouldn’t.

It did.

tRump launched a bombing attack on Iran, hitting its three main nuclear facilities. The rationale behind it is the prevention of Iran getting a nuclear bomb. It’s done in concert with Bibi Netanyahu and Israel, and just as much against Israeli citizens wishes as it is Americans. And, in our case, tRump has done it without involving Congress at all, which is, of course, against the law- again. (And again. And again…..)

First, the attack- Israel had already launched missiles at the same sites. B2 stealth bombers with 30k bombs struck three sites, including a deep underground complex. The bombs are made for this, and may indeed have destroyed the facility, or may have just done enough damage to cripple it.

We don’t know. We’re already not sure. We won’t know for weeks, and we may never know under the current protocols, an unreliable Russian stooge in charge of intelligence and tRump ignores her anyway even when she gets it right.

As in, DNI head Tulsi ‘Cruella’ Gabbard advised tRump that there was no activity detected in Iran’s nuclear weapons program- they did not appear to be going ahead with it.

But, intelligence means nothing to tRump (literally)- he never reads it (he can’t). He does what he wants anyway, and his motivation is always personal.

Iran had, indeed, stopped pursuing a bomb as a result of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a multi-nation agreement they signed with Obama and several others. But, tRump withdrew from that because……it was signed by Obama. Iran resumed.

So, even Israel’s recent attack seemed to come out of nowhere. And it was against the nuclear facilities, specifically. That’s a stretch already, as the nukes are not part of the Iran’s involvement in the Hamas/Gaza war.

This is pre-emptive- to prevent Iran from having the bomb. By two countries that have it. Only three ‘hostile’ nations have it- Russia, China and North Korea. Several ‘friendly’ nations do- Great Britain, France, India, Pakistan, Israel, and of course, the penguins on Heard Island have begun enriching uranium in response to the tariffs.

But, does Iran have the bomb? How close are they?

Well, it turns out it’s not quite as easy to make an atom bomb as you might think.

It takes a lot of uranium to make a bomb, because of the enrichment process these bombings were intended to stop. You need a large amount of U-238, general uranium like power plants use, to get a tiny amount of U-235- bomb stuff. It’s really hard. It’s a science thing. I know, tRump is getting rid of all that ‘cuz it’s too woke.

But, how close is Iran to the bomb? Well, they have enough refined, enriched uranium to almost make as many as…..one. Almost. Sort of. Close. Sort of. Um, uh, well, frankly, they’ve still got a long way to go.

And, with tRump’s ridiculous bravado over the last few months telegraphing it, and megaphoning it the last few weeks, Iran had already evacuated the facilities, and most likely the uranium was the first thing to move.

And, what with Syria going down and Israel on the hunt, Iran has likely been content to mind its P’s and Q’s for a while. Which is what our intelligence had found. They had even stopped sending help to Putin in Ukraine. Now, they’ve sent an envoy to Putin to ask him to help them.

A US/Iran War will be another Iraq War, just as artificial, just as devastating to the region, and just as awful of a failing for the US. And, another trillion bucks down the drain. Oh, $2T? 3?

But, nevertheless, Iran is now at war with Israel, which Netanyahu wanted, and the US is involved and has to take the lead, as Netanyahu wanted, and the US has again tarnished its global reputation with yet another illegal act by tRump, which Putin wanted, and oil shipments to the US are endangered, as Yemeni and China wanted, and the press attention is on tRump as a military hero rather than a pathetic parade host, international embarrassment and raving lunatic, which is the only thing tRump wants.

What about the rest of us? What do we want?

We pretty much want them all to shut their yaps, stop attacking each other and start thinking about being fair players in the world and good governors to their people.

We don’t want our soldiers shipped off to another forever war.

We don’t want forced war on countries complying with international law.

We don’t want genocide- ever again. Not in Gaza, not in China of the Ugers, not in the Middle East of the Jews- nowhere.

We want borders respected. We want Russia out of Ukraine because they have no fucking business invading their neighbor to kill them and take their stuff, which is all it amounts to.

And we want the current nuclear powers to disarm, or, at least, chill, and we don’t want any new nuclear powers, well, except for Heard Island, because we know the penguins can be trusted with these weapons more than we can.

So, Iran most likely still has the uranium, still has all the plans, maybe even had another secret facility to move things to, or maybe not any of those things at all. It may be weeks until we find out or even never.

All Iran has to do is the same thing tRump does- claim innocence and lash out.

And they are, firing missiles at Tel Aviv. Israel, of course, is responding to the response. And now, tRump has gone around Congress, who likely would not have allowed this, and bombed them anyway with the biggest shit we have.

I mean…

The deal coming from Iran is likely to be the same deal as it ever was- oil trade and unfreezing of assets in return for abandoning nuclear weapons- basically, the JCPOA. It was exactly what they signed under Obama and what they were getting. Changing it at all was never a sane choice.

But, tRump pulled us out, it fell apart, and now he’s made the most insane choice- bombing them ‘preemptively’.

On his own- no alarming intelligence, no conclusive evidence, with no provocation, no state of war, no Congressional approval, not even a threat to respond to. Not to mention, against international law.

In the meantime, all of our bases in missile range of Iran are in peril and some are already under attack. Iran can attack and claim defense, as they shout about our guilt.

It’s a military quagmire. Iran will have to be stopped from stopping us stopping them. Unless Iran stops what they stopped, then we can stop stopping them from stopping us from stopping them. (Oh, stop!)

In any case, we’re in for a bad time and American feet on the ground and lives lost is a very real possibility.

Our only way out is to stop the source of all of these problems- tRump.

Back here at home, if you’re keeping score, we can add this to the illegal ICE seizures, illegal tariffs, illegal censoring and crypto bribery. The impeachment checklist has got to be up to 10 pages by now.

Oops, 12. No, 13. 15?

C.2025 Cousin B