March 7, 2026
All American presidents lie when they want to take America to war. Such has it been, and so shall it always be. Usually, however, American presidents and their cabinet level co-conspirators are bright enough to come up with lies that are somewhat plausible and internally consistent. They usually feel it necessary to cobble together some sort of semi-consistent narrative capable of hoodwinking more than a few serious people. This administration, on the other hand, is so imbecilic that they cannot go a single day without stating something about this war that is demonstrably self-contradictory or otherwise absurd.
Take the claim that the administration is now making that the Islamic Republic posed a so-called "imminent threat" to Americans and their allies, and thus had to be preemptively eliminated. Trump and his brain trust could have made this argument prior to their brazen attack, and maybe it would have duped a few serious people somewhere in America. But, no, these geniuses chose to trot out this claim of Iran posing an "imminent threat" only after they had already attacked and they started to realize the severity of the potential legal consequences of their actions. They also started to trot out this argument after casualty figures started to flow out of the region.
And what are those official casualty figures so far from Al Jazeera ? The casualty figures according to Al Jazeera are currently showing that as of March 3, the crazed and imminently dangerous Iranian regime has managed to kill 27 people as of March 1 despite firing 1,000's of missiles and drones. 27 people. Total.
Now, you can say what you will about the accuracy of these figures, but the burden is on the administration to show the immediacy of the threat since they trotted out the immediate threat claim, and they of course are providing us no numbers of their own to refute those of Al Jazeera. If the administration viewed this missile arsenal as virtually an existential threat to the U.S. and its allies we are talking about a misinterpretation of intelligence and reality on a truly spectacular level. Lets just say that thousands and thousands of missiles and drones being fired at 9 countries for 4 straight days producing a total death count of only 27 is not exactly something to strike fear in anyone besides little old Lindsay Graham.
The administration could no doubt counter by saying that these countries are lying about their own casualty figures to downsplay the severity of the situation in which they find themselves, but then this would be an admission that the war isn't going nearly as swimmingly as Trump's preening Queen of War Pete Hegseth would lead us to believe. It would also be an outright admission that our so-called "allies" in the region are just liars trying to save their own asses at the expense of dead American servicemen. Which or course they are.
Or maybe the administration could counter Al Jazeera's casualty count by saying we don't really know how many people have been killed all over the region. That doesn't really help them out, though, because admitting ignorance of the fatal consequences of their attack is neither proof of the immediacy of the supposed threat before the attack, nor does it bolster their claims to be outright winning the war.
The idiocy and inconsistency of the "imminent threat" argument from the administration is even more obvious in light of the fact that Trump claims this "imminent threat" can be dealt with in 4 weeks. The Iranian regime is so imminently dangerous that it had to be dealt with last Saturday without waiting to inform Congress, but it's at the same time so weak that Trump will be able to deal with it in a month. That is seriously what they are asking us to believe. It took us 8 years and 8 months to limp out of Iraq, but Trump would have us believe Iran can be dealt with in a month even though it's also a supposedly deadly imminent threat.
The administration is never going to be able to logically square this circle. Their arrogance is so overweening that they couldn't help boasting about their total dominance of the Iranians from day one. They have boasted about their ability to supposedly eliminate the Iranian navy. They have boasted about their quick accession to "total aerial dominance" of the Iranian skies, and they have boasted about being able to kill Iranians acting in leadership roles almost at will. They cannot help but boast about their supposed unmatched military prowess, and they were even boasting of this prowess before the attack even began. And yet, they do not see that, if true, their boasts of supposedly complete military superiority over the Iranians completely undercuts any claims of fear of an immediate threat. A country as militarily superior as War Queen Hegseth claims America is, is not a country that fears a country as supposedly weak as Iran is.
It goes even deeper than this, however, because Trump has been threatening to smash the Iranian regime for months. Needless to say, there is a severe logical inconsistency between claiming to fear an immediate threat, while at the same time threatening to absolutely smash an opponent for months. If you are strong enough to pummel an opponent into the ground, as Trump was saying, then why are you afraid of that opponent ? This simply doesn't add up.
What is truly remarkable, however, and is implied in Al Jazeera's casualty map above, is the almost superhuman courage and prudence of the Iranian regime. Unlike Trump, they were facing months of constant threats to attack their country by both Israel and The U.S. and overt attempts to foment rebellion. They were being threatened with bombardment by Trump on a nearly daily basis, and indeed the disparity in casualties so far in this war evinces the truth of Trump's threats to pummel the Iranians, especially little girls and clerics, who have taken the brunt of Trump and Hegseth's murderous bombardment. Trump's threats were indeed real and imminent, and Iranians were in fact overtly attacked by both Israel and the United States last year. Moreover, it is clear that the Iranian regime was sitting on thousands upon thousands of missiles and drones that they could have used preemptively to attack both Israel and the U.S. Yet they did not.
What this means, ultimately, Trump and Hegseth can't hold a candle to the courage of the Ayatollah. Trump and Hegseth claim to have been so deathly afraid of the Iranians to the point where they could not have waited even two days in order to inform Congress, as is legally required. This is a level of fear and cowardice unknown by the Ayatollah. He heard the threats from Trump, saw the fury of Trump's last attack on Iran, and yet stayed at his house, continued his work, and left his missile and drone stockpile unused. It takes more than hair gel, tattoos and bloviating to match up to that level of courage.