WEBVTT 00:00.080 --> 00:07.620 The U.S. has launched a major war without the input of the experts we pay to advise 00:07.620 --> 00:09.440 the President on such matters. 00:10.820 --> 00:18.440 The State Department, Pentagon, National Security Council staff, Defense Intelligence 00:18.440 --> 00:27.880 Agency, and NSA were simply bypassed because, as White House spokesman Caroline Levitt 00:27.880 --> 00:32.940 said, President Trump had a feeling Iran would attack. 00:34.600 --> 00:41.960 The President's real estate developer son-in-law and friend reinforced that feeling when they 00:41.960 --> 00:47.760 returned from the second round of talks with the Iranian Foreign Minister and his team. 00:49.540 --> 00:57.720 However, as the news outlet responsible statecraft reported over the weekend both son-in-law 00:57.720 --> 01:06.680 Jared Kushner and friend Steve Witkov appear to have misrepresented those talks in a way 01:06.680 --> 01:10.260 that helped push President Trump's toward war. 01:12.000 --> 01:17.420 No State Department officials were on hand to ensure the reporting was accurate. 01:18.700 --> 01:26.800 Also, arms control experts at home, according to the R.S. report, believe that the duo 01:26.800 --> 01:34.100 appeared to have fatally misunderstood a series of basic technical and historical matters 01:35.420 --> 01:43.040 regarding Iran's nuclear programs leading to inaccurate information conveyed to the President. 01:44.580 --> 01:51.500 Congress was completely out of the picture, seemingly uninterested in performing its 01:51.500 --> 01:58.700 constitutional duty and no case was made to the American people that they must sacrifice 01:58.700 --> 02:03.180 and die once again for a war in the Middle East. 02:04.920 --> 02:11.100 Trump's repeated promises to not start new wars, especially in the Middle East, have 02:11.100 --> 02:17.240 turned out to be empty, and Republicans are set for a crippling defeat in the upcoming 02:17.240 --> 02:19.060 midterm elections. 02:20.620 --> 02:27.500 Iran has been warning for months since the last U.S.-Israeli surprise attack in June 02:27.500 --> 02:34.500 that if they were attacked again, they would not hold back on the U.S. bases in the region 02:34.500 --> 02:37.580 and that they would close the straits of Hormuz. 02:38.800 --> 02:47.100 Trump and Netanyahu attacked anyway, and Iran was done what it said it would do. 02:48.260 --> 02:55.740 Now, the straits of Hormuz is closed, oil is about to go out of control, and the global economy, 02:55.760 --> 02:59.600 along with the U.S. dollar, seems about to implode. 03:00.820 --> 03:08.400 On March 6th, President Trump refused a U.K. offer of help, saying we don't need help 03:08.400 --> 03:10.400 when we've already won the war. 03:11.140 --> 03:16.980 Five days later, at a rally in Kentucky, President Trump repeated 03:16.980 --> 03:19.760 that we've won the Iran war. 03:21.260 --> 03:28.580 It was his mission accomplished a moment, because this weekend, just days after declaring victory 03:28.580 --> 03:35.900 against an obliterated Iran, Trump began begging other countries to send ships 03:35.900 --> 03:39.980 to help the U.S. open the straits of Hormuz. 03:40.720 --> 03:49.180 Thus far, every country has declined, understanding that such a mission has little chance of success. 03:50.160 --> 03:54.260 Tragically, the war thus far has claimed at least 14 service members. 03:54.800 --> 03:58.420 It is likely the toll is far worse than they are telling us. 03:58.940 --> 04:04.380 Every U.S. military facility in the region is either damaged or destroyed. 04:05.040 --> 04:08.980 Billions of dollars of radar and other equipment are destroyed. 04:08.980 --> 04:15.660 Our allies in the region, because they allowed their territory to be used to attack Iran, 04:16.200 --> 04:20.420 have also seen massive retaliatory destruction. 04:21.480 --> 04:26.680 This is surely one of the worst military disasters in U.S. history. 04:27.120 --> 04:33.160 There are no military options available beyond the unthinkable, the use of nuclear weapons. 04:33.900 --> 04:40.000 The only viable option that remains is one that was often urged in the Vietnam War. 04:40.900 --> 04:42.200 Just get out. 04:42.980 --> 04:48.560 Now, no return to U.S. bases, no security guarantees to Gulf states, 04:49.000 --> 04:53.040 and the U.S. empire in the Middle East and elsewhere. 04:53.820 --> 04:56.320 If not, it's only going to get worse.