We woke last Saturday to the news that U.S. and Israeli forces had struck Iran with devastating effect.  Despite the pathetic bleatings of Democrats, this action did not come as a surprise.  We’ve been building up our forces for months, while talks went on trying to find a peaceful solution to the problem of Iran.

As you will recall, lat June the U.S. struck Iranian nuclear facilities, devastating their ability to continue to enrich uranium to be used to manufacture nuclear weapons.  Recent intelligence showed that Iran was trying to rebuild its nuclear facilities.  That was the last straw.

Iran has been a threat to the Middle East and to the world for the past 47 years, during which time, they have been at war with us, while we pretended that we were negotiating with them.  A succession of U.S. presidents has talked tough about Iran, and done little to solve the problem.

When the Shah was deposed in 1979, the militant Iranian Mullahs assumed control.  Since that time, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been the most notorious State sponsor of terrorism in the world.  They have sponsored and financed terrorist groups such as Hezzbollah, which have carried out terrorist attacks that have killed thousands worldwide.

Iran was the supplier of the IEDs and other roadside bombs that killed nearly a thousand Americans and maimed countless others.  Despite these facts, our presidents have done little to stop them.

The Ayatollah Komeini came to power under Jimmy Carter.  His supporters attacked and seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52 hostages, who were not released for 444 days.  But for an abortive rescue mission that ended in failure, Cater did nothing to stop them.

Under Ronald Reagan, Iran began calling the U.S. the Big Satan, and Israel, the Little Satan.  Reagan talked tough, but when Iran sponsored Hezzbollah terrorists bombed the Marine Barracks in Beirut, killing 241 Americans, Reagan pulled our troops out and did nothing.

President George H.W. Bush served as the Iran-Iraq war ended.  Iran was depleted by the war, and it was a time of relative peace.  Bush took no action against Iran.

Bill Clinton imposed sanctions on Iran, calling them “a rogue nation.”  Clinton bombed an aspirin factory in Sudan, but took no action to stop Iran, and later apologized for the “rogue nation” label.

President Bush 43 famously included Iran in his “Axis of Evil.”  During his tenure, Iranian President Mahmoud Amadinejad, who coincidentally was killed in this week’s air strikes, began calling for Israel to be “wiped from the map.”  Nice guy.  Too bad he’s dead.  President Bush took no action.

Il Duce Obama had a different method for dealing with Iran.  Bowing down, and paying them off.  Obama, faced with evidence that the Iranians were enriching uranium to weapons grade, decided that bribery was the best course.  In return for Iran’s empty promise not to build nuclear weapons, Obama lifted the sanctions on Iran, delivered some $1.6 billion in cash to them, which they used to further their nuclear program and to support terrorists, and was willing to accept the notion that Iran, which sits atop a sea of oil, only wanted uranium for nuclear power plants.  Obama actually wanted to set up the Iranian terrorists as the leaders of the Middle East.  Iran took the money, and redoubled its efforts to build nukes.

Trump 45 cancelled the idiotic Obama Iranian payoff plan, and killed Iranian supported terrorists Al Baghdadi and Solemani.  In return, Iran dispatched hit squads to America to kill Trump, Mike Pompeo and John Bolton.

Biden tried, and failed, to reimpose Obama’s Iran deal, and otherwise did nothing to stop their activities.  The score was seven U.S. presidents, all of whom acknowledged the threat presented by the Iranian regime, but who did nothing to reduce the threat, and only one who took action.  That random element was Donald Trump.

Democrats like to say stupid shit like calling Trump “TACO,” as in “Trump Always Chickens Out.”  As with most things Democrat, the truth doesn’t count.  If he doesn’t act he’s TACO.  If he acts he’s a warmonger.  There’s really no pleasing these pricks.  Trump cannot be counted among the “all talk and no action presidents.”  If we have learned anything from the last 10 years, it is that, when Trump makes a promise, he follows through.

And the Iranians should have understood that, in Trump, they weren’t dealing with the succession of presidents who were all talk and no action.  Trump did everything possible to avoid war with Iran.  He sent negotiators to Iran to broker a peace deal.  The terms were clearly set out.  Iran was not to get nuclear weapons, was not to have ballistic missiles, and was not to sponsor terrorism.

Even as these talks went on, Iran murdered some 35,000 protestors who challenged the Khamenei regime.  Chief negotiator Steve Witkoff has revealed that, the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has sworn it wants only nuclear power and not nuclear weapons, rejected a U.S. offer to provide reactor fuel free of charge, and boasted that they had enough weapons grade uranium to build eleven atomic bombs.  They told us that they would not stop enriching the uranium needed to make bombs under any circumstances.  There was nothing else to talk about.

Add to this, recently obtained intelligence that suggested that the Chinese were about to provide Iran with hyper-sonic missiles, capable of sinking U.S. warships, and the die was cast.  Iran had it coming, and they got it in spades last Saturday morning.  As Louisiana Senator John Kennedy so aptly put it, “The Ayatollah won the coin toss and elected to receive, and he received more than he bargained for.”

The facts I have outlined herein cried out for immediate action by the U.S.  However, Democrats don’t see it that way.  They call Trump’s actions an illegal war, and are seeking a War Powers Act resolution.  Proving that their only talent is talking, and lying, out of both sides of their mouths, Democrats at once concede that Iran is a bad actor, but claim they presented to imminent threat to the U.S.

They falsely claim that Congress needs to authorize any military action.  Of course, they’re wrong, they’re lying, and they know they’re lying.  However, they also know a compliant media will repeat any lie they tell, and that a significant portion of the public will believe them.

Democrats are relying on the confluence of a deceitful media and a maleducated public, the victims of a “progressive” educational system, that 20 years ago, historian David McCollough complained was producing “generations of historical illiterates.”  Polling suggests that 76% of the public supports the actions taken against Iran.  But if the job takes more than a few weeks, it’s a 50-50 proposition.

This is the result of the fact that we don’t teach history, beyond the Marxist ravings in Howard Zinn’s, A People’s History of America, which paints the U.S. as an oppressor nation.  We don’t teach civics to instill a love of country, and a sense of duty in young people, and we have given them no sense of national pride, much less an appreciation for the need for occasional sacrifice.

Elected Democrats have proven themselves to be no better that latter day Quislings.  For these bastards, the military action in Iran is just another opportunity to bash Trump.  In this, they are shameful and despicable.   Aptly named House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that Trump has embarked on an illegal and endless war, “which is going to end in failure.”

Putting aside the contradiction inherent in predicting the the end result of a war that he first declared to be endless,” this was an anti-American insult to our troops, who are putting their lives on the line to solve a problem that  politicians like him have avoided for 47 years.

Democrats, eager to oppose anything Trump supports, have chosen the side of Islamic terrorists over American troops, and actually are hoping more Americans are killed to bolster their political ends.  This notion, and these Democrats, are despicable.

There’s no telling whether Trump’s actions will result in a more peaceful Middle East.  If he fails, that’s the time to pile on.  in the meantime, all true Americans should be rooting for our troops, who have performed perfectly, so far.  The fact that these pricks can’t restrain their hatred of Trump for even a little while speaks volumes.  They are not to be trusted.