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As is becoming clearer from President Trump's own statements and those of his staff,

along with press reporting, the U.S. has launched a major war without the

input of the experts we pay to advise the president on such matters.

The State Department, Pentagon, National Security Council staff, Defense Intelligence Agency, and NSA were simply bypassed

because, as White House spokesman Caroline Levitt said, President Trump had a feeling.

Iran would attack.

The president's real estate developer son-in-law and friend reinforced that feeling when they returned from the second round of talks with the Iranian foreign minister and his team.

However, as the news outlet responsible state craft reported over the weekend,

both son-in-law Jared Kushner and friend Steve Whitkoff appear to have misrepresented

those talks in a way that helped push President Trump's toward war.

No State Department officials were on hand to ensure the reporting was accurate.

Also, arms control experts at home, according to the RS report, believe that the duo appeared

to have fatally misunderstood a series of basic technical and historical matters.

Regarding Iran's nuclear programs leading to inaccurate information conveyed to the president.

Congress was completely out of the picture, seemingly uninterested in performing its constitutional

duty, and no case was made to the American people that they must sacrifice and die once again for a war in the Middle East.

Trump's repeated promises to not start new wars, especially in the Middle East, have turned out to be empty,

and Republicans are set for a cripply defeat in the upcoming

midterm elections. Iran has been warning for months since the last U.S. Israeli surprise attack in June

that if they were attacked again, they would not hold back on the U.S. bases in the region

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