Trump gets big nose for big lie over no new wars and troops coming home

Trump’s nose almost hit the teleprompter at the GOP Convention, expanding Pinocchio style when he claimed “I have kept America out of new wars, and our troops are coming home". No new wars? Tell that to the 82 million Iranians who saw their top military leader and a bunch of Iraqis blown to bits by a U.S. drone last January. Now they’re reeling from the twin scourges of degraded health care and economic collapse from U.S. sanctions ratcheted up after the U.S. withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, the most war saving initiative of the Obama administration. When Trump tried to impose more severe sanctions under the treaty he trashed, the UN Security Council voted 13-2 against. Only lowly Dominican Republic voted with the U.S. to destroy Iran without resorting to more bombing. No new wars? Tell that to the 29 million Venezuelans incurring tens of thousands of deaths caused by U.S. sanctions aimed at overthrowing a hated socialist government which “refuses to bow down to the dictates of Bad Neighbor Uncle Sam. No new wars? Tell that to 12 million Cubans suffering from Trump’s dumping of most of Obama’s 55 year long overdue Cuban détente.

Troops coming home? Trump is moving them around like chess pieces. Nearly half of the proposed 12,000 to leave Germany will march east to Poland to further provoke Russia. Many of the troops Trump is bringing out of Afghanistan are troops he sent in after taking office. His Afghan withdrawal gets U.S. back to troop levels when he arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The Washington Post reports that overall U.S. troop levels abroad have increased slightly during Trump’s reign.

Normally, it’s good to believe only half of what a political leader proclaims. With Trump, make that half of one percent.