Trump says Iranians 'would be willing to suffer' his attacks on their life sustaining infrastructure [View all]

...this isn't just a madman, he's an animal.

There is nothing more barbaric and psychotic than suggesting that the people who are at the mercy of a dictatorial regime which kills dissidents and opposition supporters by the thousands would welcome American attacks on the infrastructure that sustains their very lives.

“They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedom,” Trump just told reporters in the last hour.

Aside from the fact that there hasn't been any request or approval from Iranians to bomb their power plants and decimate their lives., there haven't been any calls from the people who live in Iran for the U.S. to use their lives as a cynical and extremely dubious bargaining chip; all of this saber-rattling supposing the Iranian regime that our government asserts are terrorists who have brutalized countless civilians, including their own people, cares enough about the lives and well-being of their countryfolk to do whatever Trump wants.

Trump is making an inhumane and dishonest demand of the Iranian people he expects to suffer his deadly assaults from the air; as the quote attributed to either Lincoln or John Brown insists: 'A highwayman points a pistol at a traveler and says, 'stand and deliver, or you will be a murderer.'

Trump isn't defending anyone, not even the troops he's deploying into harm's way. No defense of Iranians; not even a credible defense of the U.S. in his military actions which have done nothing but escalate the possibility of relaliatory actions from Iran against the U.S. or our interests abroad.

He's absorbed with his attempt to conquer Iran for the sake of nothing more than the conquest, which make the collateral killings, and threats to attack civilian, life-sustaining infrastructure little more than outright murder.

It's especially damning because he's now claiming the people whose lives he's decimated, essentially asked for it, which is an absurdly dishonest way of describing the very people our government has long recognized as victims of the government we're attacking (most notably in the administration's justifications for the very war they're waging)

We're now a nation of animalistic thugs whose leader has regressed our nation back to nothing more than invading barbarians looking to steal and eviscerate another nation's people and heritage just because we think we're able.

The unrestrained evil emitting from the White House right now is almost unbearable. We're now among the lowest forms of predators in the world; our nation now a bastardization of what we've been calling civilization. We'll be justifiably reviled by the civilized world for generations afterward, even if we manage to eventually take the power out of Trump's megalomaniacal hands.