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Power always thinks...that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

John Adams

When President Donald Trump stood before the U.N. General Assembly last week and told world leaders that he was contemplating annihilating Iran, he demonstrated his usual (sub)natural propensity to pretend that he and he alone holds the power to save life or destroy it.

Adding to the fact that Trump has no lawful, constitutional authority to unilaterally take it upon himself to wage war on other peoples and nations, the U.S. Congress is worse than the Roman Senate was under the Caesars. (I heard someone say that, and I concur). There were many senators in Rome who risked their lives to protest the tyrannical actions of various Caesars—and some of them lost their lives in doing so. Compare that to the vast majority of our congressmen and senators who won't risk a single negative news story or a single invitation to a White House or billionaire lobbyist's dinner invitation to take their oath to the Constitution seriously and accept their lawful authority over the waging of war or to show the courage to even utter a peep of protest against Trump's Caesaresque pathological predispositions of absolute power.

Most of our congressmen and senators are both wimps and pimps. They have the backbones of jellyfish, and all they know to do is prostitute themselves for the favors and benefits of Benjamin Netanyahu and Zionist Israel.

The bottom line is, Trump is about to engage fresh military attacks against Iran. At his address before the U.N., he said these attacks could commence after the midterm elections, and he implied the potential use of nuclear weapons.

Trump says that Iran must never possess nuclear weapons. But the scarier picture is that Donald Trump, a man who has threatened to annihilate over 90 million people, already has access to nuclear weapons. It is Trump's malignant narcissism, frontal lobe dementia and genocidal mania that should prevent him from having access to any Weapons of Mass Destruction, especially nuclear ones.

Richard Painter, who served as chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration, also agrees that Donald Trump should not have access to nuclear weapons. In a phone interview, Painter said, "Trump's mental health puts the country at risk," and suggested that if Trump were to order the unprovoked use of nuclear weapons, "the vice president could invoke the 25th Amendment and very quickly try to gain control of the situation, along with a majority of the Cabinet."

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The Iran war is already America's most unpopular war, with somewhere between 70% - 80% of the American people opposed to it. The war is flagrantly unconstitutional. By waging an unjust war of aggression against Iran that has indiscriminately murdered thousands of innocents, Donald Trump is a war criminal in the truest definition of the term. And, of course, the war has led the entire planet to an impending economic catastrophe.

But Trump's insane bloodlust and slavish obeisance to Netanyahu do not allow him to give any thought to the importance of American prosperity, world safety or global peace. Instead, he is preparing military forces for another, and larger, attack against Iran.

I quote segments from Colonel Douglas Macgregor's interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano:

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Colonel Douglas Macgregor joins us now. Colonel Macgregor, always a pleasure. I was going to start by asking you about the drums of war beating in Europe, something you and I have communicated about, but I must go to the most recent news, which is a statement from the President of the United States just a few minutes ago when he addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations, and he used the word annihilate with respect to what he might be doing to Iran. I'll play the clip and you can tell us what you think. Chris, cut number 12. 

Trump video: But I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into Hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations? But I believe we'll make a deal right after the election. 

What could he possibly mean by annihilate? 

Colonel Douglas Macgregor: Well, the word, if you look it up, is pretty clear. He's talking about the complete and utter destruction of the Iranian state and society.

I think the first thing that, and I'm sure your audience, which is global, by the way, congratulations, notices something: Here is the president of the United States playing a role that he enjoys. And that's the role of God. He is behaving as though he holds the power of life and death over Iran or, for that matter, anyone. And that he is the principal source of justice in this war. 

This is Stalinist or Hitlerian in content. He's posturing his Genghis Khan. You know, the Mongolian armies led by Genghis' generals would say to their opponent, "Join us, or die." And that effectively is what he's doing. Now, to what does he want them to submit? He wants them to submit to Israel's demands. And we are acting as Israel's agent. Everybody knows that. That is not a good thing, because it demonstrates conclusively that we Americans have lost control of our own government. 

And finally, annihilation usually involves the use of a nuclear weapon, at least in modern parlance. I can't conceive of a situation in which an American president would attack another country that has not attacked us. And contrary to popular belief, Iran does not have this long record of assault against us. Our record against them is far more dubious. But unfortunately, the use of a nuclear weapon in this case probably implies Trump's readiness to support Israel's use of a nuclear weapon. 

All of these things are really too terrible to contemplate and would lead to a chain of events over which we would have absolutely no control. 

So, I hope this doesn't happen, but I'm afraid we have to take it seriously, and I'm sure the Iranians will take it seriously. 

If you look at the transfer of Air Force personnel to Germany and Great Britain right now—and in some cases, they're being given orders that would result in their presence in these two countries for two years—it's patently obvious that the plan is to build up stocks of weapons and munitions and aircraft and ready them for a massive assault on Iran. There's no doubt about it. 

Napolitano: And yet, he signed the Memorandum of, I almost said, "of ostentation." He signed the Memorandum of Understanding ostentatiously at the Palace of Versailles. Who knows if he read it? His vice president, who authored it, certainly read it. It would be a deal from which he could claim certain accomplishments. Right now, he can't claim a single accomplishment from the $45 billion that Hegseth has spent on this war in Iran. 

Macgregor: Well, obviously, his Israeli lobby handlers, once they understood what had been signed, made it clear to him that was unacceptable. He still has to answer to them. I'm convinced of that. He doesn't seem to have true freedom of action. If he had any freedom of action, he could, at the very least, have strategically disengaged from the disaster in Ukraine. We're fighting two front wars right now. We really can't do it. We don't have the forces for it. It's prohibitively expensive. We can't win the two at once. The Ukraine travesty is the easiest to end. But that hasn't happened, and presumably it hasn't happened because the same people pushing the war in Ukraine are also pushing the war against Iran. Both want the same thing. They want to destroy Russia, seize its resources. Now they want to destroy Iran and control its resources. 

I have concluded he's not in charge. 

Napolitano: Think of what we're saying here, Colonel. We know the Congress is controlled by the Israel lobby because AIPAC donates substantially to 354 congressional campaigns of the 535. That's two-thirds of the Congress right there. Now we've come to the understanding that the same mentality, maybe not the same human beings, but their collaborators, are literally controlling the president of the United States. Is the government of the United States responsible to the American people or to a foreign power? 

Is that a rhetorical question, Judge? Obviously, the government of the United States does not answer to the American people; it answers to Israel.

The way things are in politics, and I have said this for decades, the best we can hope for in Washington is for divided party leadership. If we have a Democrat president, it is imperative that we have at least one branch of Congress in the hands of the Republicans. And if we have a Republican president, it is imperative that we have at least one branch of Congress in the hands of the Democrats. When one party holds the White House and both houses of Congress, it always spells disaster for the Constitution and the American people.

One-party rule always leads to more foreign wars, bigger government, a larger and larger national debt, a more intrusive police state, less personal freedom and less peace. With Donald Trump in the White House, this rule of thumb takes on even greater necessity—even impendency.

In the meantime, the American people need to buckle up, because Donald Trump is preparing another large-scale attack against Iran—and maybe the Houthis in Yemen. If you think the price of gasoline and diesel (and everything else you buy) is inflated now, you ain't seen nothin' yet. 

Furthermore, I seriously doubt that Iran is going to patiently sit on its hands and wait for the midterm results while watching the U.S. and Israel build up its military hardware all over the region—including in European countries such as Germany and Great Britain. Yes, Martha, Iran has the satellite technology to see everything that's going on in real time.

If Vice President JD Vance had an ounce of honest objectivity, personal courage and genuine patriotism in his body, he would garner the Cabinet, utilize the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office NOW. Then he would immediately negotiate a peaceful settlement with Iran, get U.S. military forces out of the Persian Gulf and then cut off the military and intelligence pipeline to Zelensky and end the Ukraine conflict.

If Vance would do this, he would probably salvage the Republican Party from the impending political bloodbath on November 3—not to mention his own political career.

But what Colonel Macgregor said about Trump is also true about Vance: He's not in charge.

Funny, isn't it? The man who tries to play God, Donald Trump, is in reality nothing but a servile water boy for the Zionists in Israel who believe they really are God.

Both will soon discover that there is indeed a God; and they are not Him.

© Chuck Baldwin

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