**** House Speaker Mike Johnson: "The US is not at war with Iran" ****

Russia is not at war with Ukraine, but is executing a "Special Military Operation" according to Russia President Vladimir Putin.

Israel did not conduct ethnic cleansing in Gaza, but "rescued hostages" according to Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

At a cost of one billion dollars a day to the hardworking American taxpayer, as well as the lives of our Servicemen who died for Israel,
Mike Johnson sniveled the killing of Iranians is a "limited operation."

"We are not at war, we have no intention of being at war," Johnson bleated to reporters after the failed vote to curb Israel's power over the US Congress, calling the war a "limited operation."

Johnson whined it would have been "a very dangerous gambit" to take away the Dummkopf Trumpf's ability to execute what he has called Operation Epstein Fury.

*** Oligarch Dummkopf Trumpf Shrugs on Rising Gas Prices for Everyday Americans: "If they rise, they rise."

House Democrats Josh Gottheimer (NJ) and Jared Moskowitz (FL) called this bill the "Ayatollah Protection Act."

To cover their tracks, four less conspicuous Democrats were given the official task of scuppering the bill:

Henry Cuellar (TX), Jared Golden (ME), Greg Landsman (OH), and Juan Vargas (CA).

The resolution failed 219-212.

To no one's surprise, all four of these House Democrats are recipients of heavy AIPAC funding:

Thanks, AU.

Like Elise Stefanik, cast out into the wilderness by Dummkopf Trumpf when they have outlived any usefulness.

Heck, Trumpf put Rudy Ghouliani on a DHS advisory board to make a little per diem money for himself four times a year while staying in a posh DC hotel to attend useless meetings.

Now he will use up our weapons stockpile so we are more at risk.

#5 | Posted by bat4255 at 2026-03-05 06:23 PM | Reply | Flag: Thanks Bibi and Dotard!

Thanks for the good info, OCU.

Last century I worked with a US Marine who called himself a "Redbone" and probably a descendant of a runaway slave adopted by the Cherokees.

Wow.

I bet the peshmerga general was dignified and humble.

When dealing with the Kurds, first you must discover their tribe, then their language (Kurmanci, Sorani, or Zaza).

Geography will help pinpoint matters. Sulaymaniyah Iraq is filled with Sorani speakers and the dominant Talabani tribe.

One of the many things you will learn about the Kurds is that they have no belly dancers like the Araba, Turks, Greeks, or the Persians.

Women participate in farming, fighting, as well as family production.

These are Sorani-speaking Kurdish women:

One wonders what the other Stepford Wives are doing in exile: Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin.

Indeed.

Almost 100 years ago, legendary USMC General Smedley Butler wrote "War is a Racket."

He may as well have written "Christianity is a Racket."

**** Faux Christian MAGA Pastor: "God Wants Trumpf To Kill Everyone In Iran" ***

Phony Christian John Shane Vaughn was involved in insurance fraud years ago.

I didn't realize one could spell "loser" from the letters in his name: no "R."

Sources:

Affordability is the GOP campaign slogan for 2026, right?

Someone in the Trumpf junta will say increase oil production in Venezuela's dilapidated infrastructure.

On Tuesday 5 Nov 2024, another day that will live in infamy, 76,535,898 morons voted against their own economic interests to the ruin of us all.

Thanks, OCU.

Um, even the Joads?

Most welcome.

Great book.

Figures.

A Solomonic Ashkenazi Jew has to come between a right wing Cherokee thug and an Irishman from the Teamsters to prevent a UFC brawl in the US Senate.

Your discussion of the Kurds made me think you were there, AU.

There are many excellent books to read about the Kurds, like this one:

Yup, they call him the "Crime Minister."

Labor, the Greens, the Makis, have been longing to get rid of "Israel's curse" for two decades.

Peace-loving people have been leaving and 2025 recorded a net migration loss in Israel.

And if a Labor-led coalition ever comes to power again in Israel, how will they restore the lives and property of all the ethnically cleansed Palestinians?

The Likudniks, like US Republicans, behave as if they will never lose power.

In Afghanistan, the major ethnic groups would occasionally war with each other, but they behaved knowing there will be a "tomorrow."

In battle, they always gave their opponent an "out" because they knew they will have to live with their enemies in peacetime.

Hi AU

Thanks.

I too spent a lot of time in Northern Iraq like you.

The tribal nature of the Kurds-- and their language differences-- is what set them back from having an independent nation, as well as having their populations split amongst the larger powers like Iran, Turkiye, and Iraq.

There was a small Kurdish tribe in northern Iraq that was loyal to Turkiye, probably a historic relationship from the days of Ottoman hegemony. These Kurds worked with the Turkish military against their fellow Kurds in the PKK in the 1990s and 21st century.

Similarly, Saddam Hussein used a Kurdish tribe against the Talabani and Barzani tribes. He called them his "little donkeys" [sic].

Sidenote: Preventing Sikh independence-- "Khalistan" -- was their geographical split between Pakistan and India after the Brits left in 1947. And they all speak the same language unlike the Kurds/.

From the same Axios webpage:

"President Trumpf told Axios on Thursday that Israeli President Isaac Herzog must pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "today" " calling Herzog "a disgrace" for failing to act over the last year. "Every day I talk to Bibi about the war. I want him to focus on the war and not on the ------ court case. I want the only pressure on Bibi to be the fighting against Iran," Trumpf bleated in a phone interview.

Trumpf has been pushing for a Netanyahu pardon since last June, arguing that his trial on corruption charges " ongoing since 2020 " is a "witch hunt" akin to the US president's own legal troubles.

But Thursday's comments-- which Trumpf raised himself, unprompted -- marked a dramatic escalation and direct intervention in Israel's legal system at a moment of active war. What he is saying: "The president ... should give Bibi the pardon today. I don't want anything on Bibi's mind other than fighting against Iran," Trumpf whined to Axios."

~snip~

So, the president of the world's strongest military power has now begged a national leader for help and demanded action from another during his unlawful attack on the people of Iran: Ukraine President Volodomir Zelensky and Israel President Isaac Herzog.

FTA: "Israel bombed the Iranian building in Qom housing the clerical body responsible for selecting Iran's next supreme leader on Tuesday, seeking to disrupt the vote-counting."

What kind of military target is that?

Just another war crime Israel and the US commit on a regular basis with little to no repercussions or accountability.

No wonder people in the Middle East hate Israel and the US.

"But it's their religion that teaches them to hate us!"

What was Geronimo's religion, Islam?

Hi American Unity

I'm not surprised at all by your vignette. The Kurdish Zebari tribe are well interwoven into the oil industry in northern Iraq (called the Kurdistan Regional Government, KRG). The smarter ones get to run things and the not-so-smart ones still get lower level jobs.

Over the years the Zebari tribe fluctuated loyalties between the Talabani tribe (PUK) to the east and the Barzani tribe (KDP) to the west during their civil wars.

And the Turkish government, which recently secured a peace deal with the PKK, won't like the idea of sending more arms to any Kurds in the region.

And neither will the (Arab) Iraqi government.

Markwayne Mullin is a Cherokee Nations member and a multimillionaire.

He has served only a few years as a US Senator following a special election in 2022.

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt (R) will then select an interim US Senator until Nov 2026.

Stitt and Dummkopf Trumpf recently squabbled over the National Governor's Association dinner.