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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

'Anti-War' Trump Attacks a Mid-East Nation on False Claims About WMD: 'BradCast' 6/23/2025 - Daily Kos

  • Guest: Andrew Perez of Rolling Stone
  • Also, callers ring in, including Trump supporter who feels 'stabbed in the back'...

It all sounds a bit too familiar to those of us on The BradCast who covered the last time a Republican President forced the U.S. into a "Forever War" in the Middle East based on known lies regarding "Weapons of Mass Destruction" which they never had. Here we go again? [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]

Of course, part of the irony this time around is that Donald Trump ran for President on the false claim that he opposed the war in Iraq. And, despite his expansion of every inherited U.S. war, his unlawful targeted assassination of Iran's top military commander, and extreme expansion of the use of killer drones in all sorts of country during his first term in office, his supporters (and the corporate media) were dumb or duplicitous enough to characterize him as an "anti-war" President.

Trump's unconstitutional and unlawful attacks on three nuclear facilities in Iran over the weekend -- after Israel had cleared the field for him -- should put an end to the "anti-war" fairy tale once and for all. But we'll see.

Following Saturday's U.S. bombing run -- which, according to the Administration, has "obliterated" the three targeted nuclear production cites (something about which you should remain skeptical) -- Iran has responded with a fairly limp attack on a U.S. air base in Qatar and perhaps another in Iraq; the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security...



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