Disasters
By Thomas Clark

I’d like to start by telling Donald Trump the missile that killed about one hundred seventy little girls at school on Saturday morning February twenty-eighth was not an Iranian missile. It was an American Tomahawk missile. A ten-day investigation has revealed this, and that Trump, at best, flinched and denied a slaughter he knew he didn’t have information to plausibly deny. Or, perhaps, he unleashed his millionth lie this year and claimed that Iran might have Tomahawk missiles since the greatest arms merchant in world history has sold them to other countries and Iran could have fired the deadly shot. Since we’re talking about Donald Trump, we must consider a third possibility. As an ignoramus who does little homework, he might not have known that since 1979 a U.S. embargo against Iran had prevented the Islamic Republic from acquiring Tomahawk missiles.

So, which is it Donald Trump? Did you panic and deny before you could’ve learned the truth, or did you simply lie, or did you just continue to do your job miserably. You know damn well this war is not essential to the survival of the United States nor it is necessary to the continued existence of America’s pitbull Israel. If this really were a total war, you wouldn’t be looking to bail out because you fear damage to the world’s economy will likely, in addition to all your other crimes and improprieties, result in your being impeached and convicted in the United States Senate and losing billions of dollars you’ve already stolen and billions more that you will surely steal if you are permitted to do so.

And to the secretary of defense and poet of war, Pete Hegseth, I must, in a related matter, say that for the maimed little girls theirs was not a “silent death” like you characterized the demise of about one hundred peaceful Iranians who died on their frigate in international waters after a naval conference in India, two thousand miles from home. I don’t want to ruin your dramatic poem about piracy on the high seas, Secretary Hegseth, but even those sailors must have heard their world explode after a U.S. submarine fired a wave of torpedoes. There were some survivors but Trump’s boys didn’t stop to pick them up, as is required by international law. The Sri Lankas saved those still alive.

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