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“Iran microwaves babies!” Congressman CONFRONTED for Iran Lie
The women of Useful Idiots took to Capitol Hill this week to expose those members of Congress who are still lying through their teeth to support Donald Trump’s war of aggression on Iran and soak up as much AIPAC money as they can.
How are Democrats wielding the anti-war mandate they earned from their sweeping midterm victory, in which 74% of voters ranked the Iran War as either “crucial” or “a major factor” in how they voted?
Well, their first order of business back in Congress was to NOT SHOW UP for the vote to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
11 Democrats missed the vote, which lost by only 7 votes, with four Democrats claiming that they were “stuck in traffic,” while Drop Site News reports that three other Dems were at an event for “AIPAC and defense lobbyists.”
So, not a good start.
And when it comes to their pledge to stop the Iran War, will Hakeem Jeffries turn this failure around and rally members to block funding like the vast majority of his constituents are begging for? Or will he, and the new progressive class, bend the knee to the Israeli and weapons lobbies?
To discuss the Dems’ immediate failure on the Pete Hegseth impeachment, the chances Congress will actually take steps to end the war, and an in-depth analysis of the US and Israel’s inability to take control of Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, or make any progress in regime change, we’re speaking with returning guest, Marine Jim Webb.
Jim Webb: This is a failure on Hegseth. And I would impeach him based on this: he has failed to do his job.
There is not a whole lot more we can do militarily. We threw everything we have at them and it didn’t work. All it did was move our logistic bases further out of the region, which in tandem weakens our ability to actually prosecute military operations.
We’re not going to change the regime. We’re not going to collapse the regime.
The reason we’re not going to do that is exactly what Rubio is describing. We have been trying to do this for what, forty years of economic pressure?
When I was working up on the Hill, we had the maximum pressure campaign going on under Mike Pompeo. And in the middle of that, I had the opportunity to participate in a bunch of Track 2 negotiations following the assassination of [Iranian military officer Qasem] Soleimani regarding US posture.
And the message that we continuously got from the Iranian side was, ‘you are incentivizing the people that you don’t want in power. We have a fairly moderate president right now. By pressuring the people at the bottom, you only validate folks from the IRGC and people who want an aggressive posture towards the United States.
You validate their perspective, you validate their rhetoric, and then you push them into power.’
