Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report.

Bring the troops back, end this war now.

As we begin a new week, the media is filled with reports that President Trump is ready to approve a U.S. ground operation against

Iran, either to seize Iran's uranium or to attack an island off the country's coast.

Thousands of U.S. troops have sped to the conflict area to await President Trump's decision.

The president is on the verge of making a serious mistake to add a series of deadly mistakes

that had characterized this terrible war of choice against Iran. A U.S. ground operation against Iran would only achieve the death of thousands of U.S.

service members. Of course, if our Congress was doing its job, this debacle would never have started.

Clear signals would have been sent to the president by congressional

leadership that in the absence of an imminent attack on the U.S., the U.S. president must go to Congress

to make the case for taking the country to war. Instead, what we got was a shrug of the shoulders from Capitol Hill that has already cost

billions of dollars and too many lives.

As we stand on the verge of a major ground operation, the main stated goal of the war are that Around does not have a nuclear

weapon and that the Strait of Hermuz is open for shipping. But both of these things were already

true before the war started. Now we are expanding the war to try and reverse the negative consequences

of starting the war in the first place. What was supposed to be a quick shock and awe to frighten

around into capitulation has expanded rapidly and is costing the U.S. dearly.

As the New York Times has reported, every U.S. military base in the region has been either destroyed

or is severely damaged.

Billions of dollars in U.S. military equipment has been destroyed in Iran's response

to the U.S. attack. Just over the weekend, a half-billion-dollar U.S. radar aircraft was destroyed

at a U.S. base in Saudi Arabia, along with several air tankers.

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