Why I Do Not Trust Trump on Iran by Ron Paul!
(2020-01-06 at 15:17:06 )

Why I Do Not Trust Trump on Iran by Ron Paul

President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told us the United States had to assassinate Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani last week because he was planning "Imminent attacks" on United States citizens.

I do not believe them.

Why not?

Because Donald Trump and the neocons - like Mr. Pompeo - have been lying about Iran for the past three years in an effort to whip up enough support for a United States attack.

From the phony justification to get out of the Iran nuclear deal, to blaming Yemen on Iran, to blaming Iran for an attack on Saudi oil facilities, the United States Administration has fed us a steady stream of lies for three years because they are obsessed with Iran.

And before Donald Trumps obsession with attacking Iran, the past four United States Administrations lied ceaselessly to bring about wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Serbia, Somalia, and the list goes on.

At some point, when we have been lied to constantly and consistently for decades about a "threat" that we must "take out" with a military attack, there comes a time where we must assume they are lying until they provide rock solid, irrefutable proof.

Thus far they have provided nothing.

So I do not believe them.

President Donald Trump has warned that his administration has already targeted 52 sites important to Iran and Iranian culture and the United States will attack them if Iran retaliates for the assassination of Gen. Soleimani.

Because Iran has no capacity to attack the United States, Irans retaliation if it comes will likely come against United States troops or United States government officials stationed or visiting the Middle East.

I have a very easy solution for President Trump that will save the lives of American servicemembers and other United States officials: just come home.

There is absolutely no reason for United States troops to be stationed throughout the Middle East to face increased risk of death for nothing.

In our Ron Paul Liberty Report program last week we observed that the United States attack on a senior Iranian military officer on Iraqi soil - over the objection of the Iraq government - would serve to finally unite the Iraqi factions against the United States.

And so it has: on Sunday the Iraqi parliament voted to expel United States troops from Iraqi soil.

It may have been a non-binding resolution, but there is no mistaking the sentiment. United States troops are not wanted and they are increasingly in danger. So why not listen to the Iraqi parliament?

Bring our troops home, close the United States Embassy in Baghdad - a symbol of our aggression - and let the people of the Middle East solve their own problems.

Maintain a strong defense to protect the United States, but end this neocon pipe-dream of ruling the world from the barrel of a gun.

It does not work.

It makes us poorer and more vulnerable to attack.

It makes the elites of Washington,D.C. rich while leaving working and middle class United States of America with the bill.

It engenders hatred and a desire for revenge among those who have fallen victim to United States interventionist foreign policy.

And it results in millions of innocents being killed overseas.

There is no benefit to the United States to trying to run the world.

Such a foreign policy brings only bankruptcy - moral and financial.

Tell Congress and the Administration that for Americas sake we demand the return of United States troops from the Middle East!

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