Israel Forced The US To Attack Iran Admits Marco Rubio by Owen Jones

 Click on Owen Jones 'He just went and said the quiet part out loud. This is absolutely astonishing from the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He just declared that the US attacked Iran because Israel bounced the US into it. Just listen to what he says here and let's discuss the implications as well as the signs that the illegal war on Iran is proving to be a disaster for the belligerents.

'Did you tell me that there was an imminent? Marco Rubio'There absolutely was an imminent threat. And the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked and we believed they would be attacked that they would immediately come after us. And we were not going to sit sit there and absorb a blow before we responded because the Department of War assessed that if we did that, if we waited for them to hit us first after they were attacked and by someone else,

Israel attacked them, they hit us first  and we waited for them to hit us, we would suffer more casualties and more deaths. We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from  inflicting higher damage. Had we not done so, there would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about how we knew that this was going to happen and we didn't act preemptively to prevent more casualties and more loss of life'.

I beg your pardon. The claim here is that the US knew Israel was going to attack Iran that this would mean Iran would strike back at the US and so the US struck preemptively. A few basic points here. 

Israel is in no position to attack Iran without US support. It is entirely dependent on the US militarily in terms of aid more broadly as well as well as for diplomatic and political support. If the US told Israel it would not take part in such a war, then the war would not happen. How do we know this? Not just because of the basic facts that Israel is militarily dependent on the US, but because Israel has been agitating for this war for decades. And despite previous presidents presiding over such criminal disasters as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, even they were not stupid enough to get dragged into a war with Iran. 

They had no ideological opposition to such a war, no moral opposition. They just believed quite rationally it would prove a strategic disaster for the US. And in any case, Donald Trump and his administration decided to commit to the biggest buildup in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. They repeatedly made clear that the US intended to attack Iran for its own reasons. That's what they said. During the protest in January, Trump declared, "Help is on its way." And on the 23rd of January, Trump posted that a massive armada is heading to Iran, declaring that time is running out. It is truly of the essence, demanding Iran make a deal, and warning that the next attack will be far worse than last year. So, we're stuck with a couple of possibilities. One is that Marco Rubio has admitted that Israel has bounced the US into a war with Iran against his will. So muchfor America first. So much for Trump renewing US strength. Making America great again. What Rubio is admittingthere is Israel first. What else is there to say? Well, Marco Rubio thinksthis whole illegal war is clearly a disaster and he's making excuses. They made us do it. Or maybe it's a combination of the two....'

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