It was a momentous week for the Iran conflict, culminating in the decision by President Trump, Tuesday evening, to agree to a two week ceasefire to permit further talks about ending the war, with the Pakistani President as the intermediary.

The ceasefire came in the wake of Trump’s announcement that, come 8 pm Tuesday, the U.S. was prepared to destroy all bridges and power stations in the country.  Unsurprisingly, Trump couched his announcement in rather pungent terms.

On Sunday, Trump posted, “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.  There will be nothing like it!!!  Open the Fucking Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.  JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”  On Tuesday, Trump warned that new attacks would “end the Iranian civilization.”

Predictably, Trump opponents among elected Democrats, and their lap dog media, cringed at the President’s “tone.”  “How dare he use such language?”  “Why was he so impolite to the Iranians?”

Keep in mind, these are the same people who have been calling the war with Iran illegal and unprovoked since March 1, when it began.  They even got 100 alleged “international law experts” to sign a letter claiming that attacks on Iran’s infrastructure would be war crimes.

This was, of course, bullshit.  During World War II, the Allies bombed every bridge and power plant in Europe, and no one claimed it was a war crime.  We don’t want to do that in Iran if at all possible because if we break it, we have to fix it, or else expose 90 million Iranians, who are not our enemies, to starvation, disease and death.

Settling the war with Iran was going to be difficult enough, without having to fight domestic enemies, as well as our foreign enemy.  Elected Democrats, now numbering some 70 Congressmen and Senators, are crying that Trump has lost his mind, and are calling for his removal via the 25th Amendment.

Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass.,”The House and Senate must return to session.  The House must pass articles of impeachment, and then the Senate must vote to convict and remove the President.  Or, the cabinet and Vice President, with congressional concurrence, must invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump.”  He’s not at all interested in reconvening  Congress to reopen the Department of Homeland Security during a war.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., “No President in control of his senses would publicly promise to eradicate an entire civilization.”

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., “We need to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump.”  “Threatening war crimes is a blatant violation of our constitution and the Geneva Conventions.”  Khanna has promised that if they regain power, the Democrats’ first order of business will be to impeach Trump yet again.

The Democrats may be stupid, but their memories can’t be so deficient that they have forgotten that all of our presidents since Jimmy Carter have labeled the Iranian Islamic Republic a rogue actor, bent on obtaining nuclear weapons with which to threaten the world.  Hillary Clinton even promised to attack Iran if elected in 2016.

As usual with the Democrats, it’s all about politics.  I now that politics is a dirty business, but I was put in mind of a line from Gore Vidal’s play, The Best Man.  In it, a former president tells a presidential candidate, “It’s not that you’re a bastard that I object to.  It’s that you’re such a stupid bastard.”

Today’s Democrats are certainly bastards, but they’re not stupid enough to really believe the shit they’re spewing.  Surely, they’ve had enough experience with Trump comments to understand that everything he says is part of a negotiation.  And, why must his tone be so impolite?  It’s very simple.  He’s not dealing with reasonable people who are used to making arms-length agreements, and then sticking to them.  He’s negotiating with lying, cheating, blood thirsty terrorists, who think nothing of killing their own people.

But facts don’t matter to Democrats.  They can’t even decide what they’re angry about.  When Iran murdered 45,000 of its own citizens, they blasted Trump for doing nothing.  When Trump intervened in Iran, they called the war illegal, and Trump a war criminal.  When Trump threatened complete destruction, they called him a madman.  And when Trump agreed to the ceasefire, they said he was Chicken.  There’s just no pleasing these pricks.

Adding to the problem, we seem to be the victims of our own success in this war.  So many of the top Iranian leaders have been killed that it’s hard to know whether the people we’re talking to over there are the people who actually can make enforceable decisions.

And as if dealing with lying terrorists wasn’t enough, Trump has to deal with the latter day Quislings in the Democrat Party.  Vidkun Quisling was a Norwegian Army officer who started supporting Fascists in 1933.  When Hitler invaded Norway, Quisling set up a Fascist government in Norway, and he became a convenient puppet for Hitler, even sending Norwegian Jews to the death camps.  After the war, Quisling was executed by the Norwegian government for treason.

Obsessed as they are with opposing anything Trump does, the Democrats have managed to position themselves as the allies of any group or cause that Trump policies have affected.  This mania has Democrats supporting the sexual mutilation of children, criminal illegal aliens, and now they’re rooting for Iranian terrorists, with the U.S. military in harms way.  It’s shameful and downright traitorous.

As for the alleged ceasefire, I wouldn’t bet on a two week lull in the war.  First of all, in a real ceasefire, the belligerents stop firing.  Iran is still firing missiles into Israel and other countries. Iran claims it’s a communications problem.

Trump representatives are to meet Iranians in Pakistan tomorrow.  Given the 10 point plan proposed by Iran, which Trump said is a worthy starting point for  discussion, the war may start back up as soon as Monday.

Here’s what the Iranians demand: The lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions on Iran; Continued Iranian control over the strait of Hormuz; US military withdrawal from the Middle East; An end to attacks on Iran and its allies; The release of frozen Iranian assets; A UN security council resolution making any deal binding; and try this one on – In the version released in Farsi, Iran also included the phrase “acceptance of enrichment” for its nuclear program.

As ending Iranian nuclear ambitions was the only reason for the war, that’s not going to fly.  Moreover, Trump spelled out the immediate opening of the Straight as a condition of the ceasefire.  Iran says ships must get its permission to transit.  This is a non-starter.  First of all, Iran never had legal control over the Straight of Hormuz.  Secondly, having lost the war, Iran is in no position to demand something it never had before the war.  Most importantly, even if we wanted to, the U.S. has no authority to grant to any nation, let alone a terrorist nation, the right to control an international waterway.

The right of free transit on the high seas is an age old tenet of international law that even the 100 international law experts should understand.  The right to travel the high seas is guaranteed under international law, specifically the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.  Only these Iranian pricks could have balls big enough to make such a demand after having their asses handed to them in a war that they lost.

Simply put, either the Iranians fold and surrender or the war starts back up  five minutes later.  Where will that leave the Democrats’ refrain?  Let’s see, Trump failed to act, Trump is a warmonger, we’re losing the war, Trump is a crazy war criminal, Trump Always Chickens Out; okay, I’ve got it, Trump is a warmonger.