War Pigs are now the War Pimps
Bibi has been selling a war with Iran since the early 1990s. Ask yourself why he does it.
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death's construction
Bibi Netanyahu is the Pied Piper of Iranian hostile policy. Now, don’t get me wrong: Iran is a total and complete pain-in-the-ass and has been in my mind from at least when their fingers were involved in direct terror attacks against the United States, France, and others. When Hezbollah attacked the American Marine barracks and a French military outpost in Beirut, Lebanon, during a peacekeeping mission, those attacks were carried out on Iran’s orders. Iran was found legally responsible for those attacks and ordered to pay compensation to the families of those killed in the attacks.
But Bibi the Showman, the Carnival Barker, and mouthpiece of a strategic political career policy of constant apocalypse—the never-ending state of fear and accusation—is Israel’s McCarthy? Maybe he is, and maybe he is not, but he is definitely playing in the same sandbox. Bibi is the purveyor of the same war filth. Of course, there is a purpose to using warfare and its tactics, but he is selling war as the only solution to [name the problem]. Oh, that “problem” often is not one of national security. It is often a political one for the one in power or the party of the one in power.
Always remember one fact: Netanyahu is the only Israeli Prime Minister ever indicted while in office. After three indictments and five investigations, he is batting .600, which would not be too shabby if he played for the Red Sox, but he isn’t a baseball player in the major leagues. He is the leader of a sovereign nation-state.
You have to give Bibi credit where credit is due: he can stick to a script. The early nuclear alarmism started when Bibi was a member of the Knesset. In 1992, Iran was “three to five years” away from a deliverable nuclear weapon. In 1995, Bibi wrote in his book Fighting Terrorism that Iran was “five to seven years at most” (so, 2002 at the latest). In 1996, Bibi warned while addressing the U.S. Congress during his first term as Prime Minister that Iran’s nuclearization was “getting extremely close.” (I guess the five to seven years was not getting the attention he desired.) Bibi celebrated 9/11 as being good for Israel, according to Haaretz (hotly disputed).
When the future threat did not work, Bibi switched gears and went to historical past atrocities, and around the 2007-08 timeframe, he started the rhetoric phase of his presentations. He got louder and more bombastic* (*word specifically chosen). Bibi held blueprints of Auschwitz and somehow blamed Iran(?!?). Bibi, usually after an indictment or two or three, likes to drop his rhetoric of mass distraction. — “We are not going back into those ovens.” No shit, that’s why your government armed itself with nuclear weapons decades before you ever got into politics. (U.S. intelligence says somewhere between 1966-67 and 1975 Israel became a nuclear-armed power.) By 2012, Bibi was screaming about an Iranian “nuclear holocaust.” Then there was the cartoon-bomb prop at the UN:
Bibi has made a lengthy career out of mixing what I am sure is some nugget of truth somewhere in there with a skit-parody of a paranoid leader looking for the next war. Wars are great distractions. Grenada was a Look, Squirrel moment, getting attention away from the stirrings of Iran-Contra and other investigations into the Reagan administration. Bubba Clinton shot missiles into a baby food factory claiming terrorist affilation to change the news cycle A-blocks from a blowjob to ..war!!! Look, squirrel!!! Bibi has turned it into a craft. Bibi has built a well-oiled political rhetoric machine with a monotone message.
As far as current goings-on: March 2025 - DNI Slap Happy Gabbard testified that U.S. agencies assess that Iran is not actively building a nuclear weapon and that Iran’s Supreme Leader Gangster has not authorized a nuclear program since…drum roll please…2003. Could Iran weaponize? Yes. They have 406 kilograms of highly enriched uranium, but the problem is presented between the politicans (including our Dear Leader Porn Star Humper) and the U.S. intel farms. The French and Germans are suspiciousAF of Iran. They don’t like the stockpile of HEU and decided to keep sanctioning Iran until it goes back to the old onsite UN inspection system.
Israel’s intelligence is the outlier. Israel claims Iran is already at the neutron research and missile adaptation phase of their nuclear program. The sitting American President Dear Leader, wholesale dismissed Gabbard and the entire U.S. intelligence community and closely repeated the Israeli intelligence findings. Dear Leader and the White House are claiming “weeks” away from the Iranian nuclear apocalypse, while they put the timelines at “years” with caveats that the stockpile and centrifuges raise the risk profile. There is a huge difference, especially if the answer to the situation is bombs falling, between some time this month and possibly a few years down the road.
I can’t say I am not suspicious AF myself. I am still a little head shy after Colin Powell’s stunt holding up the vial in the Congressional hearing. Given our history, especially post-WWII, nuclear wars and garden variety military action don’t tend to solve much. Again, Grenada? They did not even “rescue” the college kids from the offshore med school. Half of them watched Reagan on television while they were told they were heroically rescued. (Yes, they were dangerously close to getting an offshore medical degree; someone needed rescuing, their future patients, perhaps?) Did Iraq, Somalia, Djibouti, Afghanistan, Libya, or Afghanistan (or the 20 other things we never heard about) produce a post-war stable country?!? No. How many Germanys or Japans did we get after spending a few trillion dollars on adventurism (and training the troops in a more realistic environment than Fort Irwin or Graf in Germany)? Zero.
What would a war in Iran cost? Who the hell knows! Where is the worst place to have an all-out battle that would draw in many of the region’s militaries? Iran. If oil shipping traffic gets disrupted, all bets are off. Goldman is already warning on oil prices due to political turmoil in the region. Trade will take another hit, atop the stupidity of things like Brexit in England from the EU, and Dear Leader’s tariffs, mania, and threats, which are leading the U.S. into a Brexit from Planet Earth. Add in trade disruptions to tariff wars to a moronic tax bill that is nothing short of robbing the Tresusary now and making our grandkids and great-grandkids pay for it.
America, brace yourself, if we get caught up in a deep, irrefutable morass in Iran, your quality of life is about to plummet unless you can afford one of those $5M a plate Mar-A-Lago dinners or immigration gold cards. The regime has already told you the oligarchs are not going to pay the bills; you are! But you don’t have the money to cover the bills they have already racked up since Reagan, so… They loudly presented an answer to them not paying, and you not having the money. No Social Security, Medicare, VA care, science funding, medical research, or education, especially in rural America. Services are to be obliterated in rural sectors to fake-pay for the tax cuts for themselves. No, the cuts don’t come close to paying for the tax breaks, and now they are completely OK with that. It is only a concern when their party does not control the White House and the Senate.
Oh, and the best part is our space program becomes wealthy people getting fucking whacked out on Ketamine and watching rockets blow up on the launch pad. Cool boom, bro…
How will a war with Iran go? Not well, according to the Pentagon’s assessments. A large-scale war game in 2002 played this scenario out. The use of missile attacks from civilian ships and silent aircraft during the war game took out an entire Navy carrier group in minutes. A 2012 analysis by CENTCOM determined that an attack on Iran would only delay Iran’s nuclear program by a year. If the U.S. jumped into the combat gangbang, two years.
These prior military assessments did not include a few things, mainly things that are not in the battlespace yet. Mass drone attacks like the recent Ukrainian operation that took out a significant portion of Russia’s air assets, including AWAC-like aircraft and long-range bombers. The general missile technology has advanced greatly since the early aughts. Run-of-the-mill missile stock has gone from short-range and manually guided to simultaneously launching thousands of missiles (and drones) of multiple categories, like the Oct. 6th attack against Israel. Remember, as Dear Leader pines on for a reboot of Reagan’s Star Wars program, the local missile defenses did not work as planned during the Oct. 6th attack. That’s a real problem because now the forces against the U.S. and Israel have a ballpark number of objects to throw at their enemies, and their enemies will simply run out of ammo. 3,700 flying death objects were already tested, and it worked. What happens when it is 15,000 or more devices inbound? According to JNS.org:
In the first 20 minutes of the attack, Hamas fired an unprecedented 1,400 rockets into Israel. Many Iron Dome batteries were depleted in the face of the massive barrage, according to Channel 12.
Hamas’s invasion of Israeli territory cut off some batteries’ supply routes. In one instance, an officer and two soldiers were killed while attempting to resupply batteries.
To say it did not go as planned on Oct 6th is an understatement. The air raid sirens warning people to get into the underground bunkers did more to defend people during the attacks.
What other understatements, miscalcutions, and often repeated tropes are we dealing with now? The mistakes come blunders will cost us how much this time around? We no longer calculate wars in billions of dollars, but trillions. I don’t know how successful a U.S.- Israel Team America Let’s Blow Shit Up Again mission into Iran would be. Air strikes and lobbing a few missiles won’t cut it. Speaking of air strikes, I think in certain hawkish circles, Iran is the excuse to test to delivery of weapons, bunker busters as they are called.
Frankly, I do not trust whatsoever the dynamic criminal duo of Bibi and Dear Leader to make sound decisions regarding a new Middle East regional war. I see a distraction from personal and political troubles for each of them. I see them wanting to ride the popularity a leader usually gets during wartime. Doing this because they actually think they can contain Iran from doing something the intel community says is unlikely?!? No. Not for a second.
I see just the opposite, as Congress gets pissed they are getting sidelined again. I can see a DOGE bro coming to a Senate hearing and holding up another vial for the cameras ala Iraq’s WMDs.
It is the infamous Hearst problem: decide on the war first, then make up the reason for it in the newspaper tomorrow morning. Except Bibi’s tomorrow morning started in 1992.
Until next time…
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Postscript #1 - Congress is the reason Congress gets sidelined. Geez! Ted Cruz is holding a hearing on…checks notes… Biden’s autopen signature. Not Iran. Not our relationship with Israel. Biden's signature shows signs of mental decay. Yeah, dickheads, we know. Harris took his place and lost. Remember? It was the election not stolen because you won. And now, Dear Leader is President, and the stated anti-war President is about to send America into its next quagmire while running the American economy into the ground. But Biden’s autopen signature? Great focus. Not.
Bibi and BabyDon are cut from the same rotting corpse…cloth.