2026/08/14

       While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Republican (fascist/socialist) President Trump, speaking at the David S. Mack Center for Training and Intelligence, in Garden City, new york, says 

So, for you to pay a tiny little bit more for your gasoline, just remember you’re doing it so that a very evil country cannot have a — really, it’s the number one state sponsor of terror in the world — we don’t want them [the Islamic Republic of Iran] to have a nuclear weapon.  When you have to pay a little bit more, you’re at $4.  It’s okay.  I’ll never apologize.  I did the right thing … you just have to remember that what we’re doing is a great service for the world.  Not only for ourselves, but for the world.  And we’re really doing a great job.

       NOTE: Iran had not worked on developing a nuclear fission bomb in over a decade.

       [added 8/20/2026] Thanks to Antiwar.com for this entry.