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The Trump White House has ordered U.S. naval and air force assets to move in the direction

of Iran in preparation for a major U.S. war against the country of 90 million people.

Trump promised to be the president bringing peace and ending endless war. Instead, he has

become the partner of war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu in expanding Israel's genocidal war in Gaza,

now against Iran. I'm Leanne Seema Fullahan here with Brian Becker, and this is in the news, a segment of

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program. We can't do the show without you. We can only do it with you. Leanne, we're on the precipice

of another major U.S. war in the Middle East. Of course, that's somewhat incorrect because the U.S. is already at war.

Israel is the proxy of the United States. The Democratic Party is offering no resistance at all

to Trump's promise to annihilate Iran, essentially. Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, and Hakeem

Jeffries, the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, as of this moment,

have not even joined co-sponsoring the War Powers Resolution Act introduced by Bernie Sanders

and other members of the Congress, both in the House and the Senate.

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