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February 28: Trump launches 'Operation Epic Fury'
“The first casualty of war is the truth.” (US Sen. Hiram Warren Johnson, 1918, supposedly)
- Trump’s speech (and highlights 1-urgency, 2-Iran’s leaders killed protesters, 3-Iran nuclear capability, 4-imagine if they were armed with nuclear weapons, 5-less urgent, 6-nuclear reminder, 7-‘that often happens in war‘, 8-stay sheltered, then come out and take over your government, 9-let’s see how you respond); Karoline Leavitt “attacks” press
- Bush’s pre, post-invasion speech 23 years ago; Reagan announces Grenada invasion; Clinton in Kosovo (vs Serbia); Bush Sr in Iraq (Persian Gulf War); Bush Sr announces invasion in Panama; Johnson on Gulf of Tonkin (McNamara’s admission)
- Bush/Cheney’s call for urgency;
- Twenty-four years prior . . . (some … parallels?)
- The concept of ‘blowback‘
