In case you missed it, a horrible, terrible, no-good human being assumed room temperature this past weekend. Iran’s Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed. Dead, like a door nail! The strikes were coordinated with Israel in a much broader sense, it’s a full-on war in Iran in my humble opinion.
I’ll touch more on the war below, but I want to put out some very disturbing info I saw in my newsfeed over the weekend.
I saw an article about how the merry band of losers, California Democrats, our so called leaders, were upset with the result. Yeah, I’m serious. They expressed anger with the Ayatollah being killed. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, and Ami Bera were all upset that the War Powers Act was not used. Again, I’ll touch on that later, but I want to point out, Ayatollah Khamenei is directly and indirectly responsible for thousands of US and Israeli deaths over the years. He literally bank rolled; Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi’s to name a few terror proxies. The groups are not militaries; they simply fire rockets at other countries and do not care in the slightest about casualties of innocent civilians. Check out the atrocities carried out by Hamas in Israel October 7th. Yes, folks these Democrats are actually sad this guy is dead, more so they are furious Trump did it! Rush Limbaugh was correct back in the day when he stated that Democrats cry whenever an evil dictator dies. The Iranian regime is famous for suppressing free speech, using nasty propaganda, wantonly killing, using hospitals and schools as human shields to protect military installations, and worse yet quite literally saying they want to wipe Israel off the map, and encouraging folks to say, “Death to America.” The Ayatollah started a massive government crackdown about a month ago and authorized the killing of tens of thousands of his own people who were protesting! Again, Democrats are mourning his loss, not celebrating those that want freedom.
While I understand the Democrat position on this (attack without authorization), I need folks to understand this was the only way this was going to go. Iran never negotiated in good faith with the US or the nuclear coalition, and they were never going to. They wanted a bomb, they hate Israel. Donald Trump might be a real good negotiator but eventually anyone gets to a point where dialogue ends and action is needed. It was always going to end this way.
Israel and the US moved in and took out quite a few targets almost instantly. Khamenei met his fate shortly thereafter. Actually, I believe we took out over 100 top Iranian Republic Guards over the first 4 days of this operation. As to be expected, the Iranians were pissed and have essentially lobbed missiles in every direction around them! Very dumb move. Their strikes have hit; Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar with rumors that Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates have been targeted or hit as well. Way to get all your Muslim brothers ticked at you! At the time of me writing this, it actually sounds like these nations may even join the bombing in Iran.
What is happening in Iran right now is also to be expected. Folks, Iran does not have advanced military capabilities, but they thought they did. They purchased the same hi-tech weapons from China as Venezuela did to protect their airspace from US and Israeli stealth aircraft. Thus, state-of-the-art Chinese military assets have had their butts kicked twice in about as many months by President Trump. Iran simply cannot go toe-to-toe with the USA or Israel. It’s been proven time and again. We literally went through their air defenses like a hot knife through butter, heck Kuwait shot down 3 of our planes by mistake, Iran has shot down none. The IRG has been decimated, the only thing now is how long will this last?
Regarding the war itself, if you actually want something to be upset about, our intelligence is either way off, or we were lied to. You may recall the bombing operation of their nuclear sites, where Trump claimed they were completely obliterated. Well, now we were being told Iran was a week away from having a nuclear bomb. Which was true? I think the bombing earlier this year didn’t obliterate anything; it was a waste. I do think Iran was close to a bomb, but I’m going to be honest, I’m starting to not trust Israel. I think we just got dragged into another long, drawn-out war. Oh, Israel announced they are going “boots on the ground” in Lebanon.
If you want to be upset about something, be upset about that above. What is the end game? We took out their leader, now what?
As far as the fringe Left and fringe Right complaining about the War Powers Act, when is the last time we actually declared war? It was World War II. Yep, that’s right, almost 100 years ago. There was no declaration of war for Korea, Vietnam, the global war on terror, Granada, Gulf War I or II, the Balkin States, Libya, or anything else our country has done militarily. My point is, by the time the House has a hearing, then the Senate takes the matter up, many weeks will go bye. Rand Paul, Liz Warren, and others can get on a soap box and drag this thing out forever. Had Trump not acted, and without Congress being notified before military action began, then the nuclear sites could have had the materials moved, the Ayatollah could be on the move, and the actionable intelligence would have been worthless. We had the info, we moved in, we crippled the power structure in Iran for the time being.
What is the answer? I am not totally sure. Who rises to power in Iran? I do know one thing, if the Ayatollah remaining in power was the answer, I don’t want to know the question. If you think the Ayatollah should still be alive, or that we acted illegally, you have a big dump in your pants. If you really want to die on this hill, you can argue about the War Powers Act or if we had to take Khamenei out, but it’s over now so it just seems wrong to start playing what if.
The Chief
PS Yes, America will be more dangerous in the near term. Whether you engage in conspiracies or not, it is believed there are Iranian sleeper cells here in the US. Things could get violent soon. Remember we took out Ayatollah; they have been trying for the better part of a year to get Trump.