Trouble in Trumpville?
BREAKING: Hardcore MAGA Congressman Tim Burchett breaks ranks from his own party and slams them as "war pimps" for trying to start a war with Iran, adding that we "don't need another endless war in the Middle East."
When this maniac is the voice of reason, you know things are getting bad...
"How involved would you like to see the U.S. here?” CNN Anchor John Berman asked Burchett.
Donald Trump has been flirting with the possibility of striking Iran based on the incredibly flimsy allegation that they are close to possessing a nuclear weapon. It's the same lie that Republicans told with Iraq and somehow MAGA supporters are falling for it.
"Very little. We give Israel about $4 billion a year and other military assets. I think we should allow them to fight this thing," said Burchett. "I fear basically a three-front war. You know, we're involved with Ukraine, and then we pull out from around Taiwan, and that exposes them to China. That's something that China would love to see."
"And we don't need another endless war in the Middle East," he continued. "I think Israel has the capabilities, they've shown they have the technology, and the intelligence. You know, taking out three of their top people is a good thing and of course those ayatollahs are gonna say that they're hiding out in some cave somewhere and they're gonna, you know... Old men make decisions and young men die and that's the history of war."
"I would warn folks, though, that we need to vote about what we need to do about what's right and not what our stock portfolios say," said Burchett. "Because a lot of these military assets are a lot of people vote for these things because they have jobs in their districts, and that's just the cold, hard facts of warfare.”
"So you say you would like to see very little U.S. involvement," replied Berman said. "There are Republicans, Lindsey Graham and others, who say that Iran's nuclear capabilities are a threat to the United States, not just Israel, but to the U.S., and that the U.S. is the only country with the capability to take out the nuclear enrichment facility in Fordo. What do you say to that?"
"[Iran] can't get past Greece with their missiles. I think if they had, they would have already launched them. That's pretty evident," said Burchett.
"In their last missile strike I think they put two of their major missiles in the air," he went on. "That tells me they're just about out. And your previous expert talked about their apparatus was inoperable. That means that the Israelis blew the hell out of it on the ground. Again, I think that we need to take a deep breath and slow down this thing and let the Israelis do their thing."
"And ultimately that's what's going to bring them to the negotiating table," Burchett continued. "Like I said, we do not need another endless war."
"The weapons of mass destruction... I'm pretty confident that Iran has those capabilities of nuclear war," he said, providing no evidence for his dubious assumption. "But they can't get to us and I think the Israelis are doing a great job right now of eliminating any threat and I think that we should allow them to do that."
"There is a bit of a divide in your own party on this. It seems like you're saying you don't want U.S. military involvement here, you're agreeing on that," said Berman. "And we saw this new video. Tucker Carlson, who is someone who in the past has been very supportive of the president, had an interview with Senator Ted Cruz from Texas."
CNN then ran the now-infamous clip of Carlson humiliating Cruz by exposing his jaw-dropping ignorance on Iran, a country whose regime Cruz wants to topple. The senator didn't even know the country's population.
"Congressman, where do you come down on this?” asked Berman. "And Tucker Carlson has called some members of your own party warmongers."
“Yeah, well, I call them war pimps," said Burchett. "You know, Lindsey Graham's a friend of mine. Ted Cruz is a friend of mine. I just... Look, I got a daughter who just turned eighteen last week on the same day as the president did, and the United States Army. I don't want to see her go to war."
"My daddy fought in the Second World War. Hell, my mama flew an airplane during the Second World War. She lost her brother. Till the day she died, every time they unfurled that flag she would tear up," said Burchett. "And that was for a just cause."
"I just don't see American boys and girls going to a faraway land that many of us can't even find on a map. Again, it's Israeli, the Israelis can handle this thing. Let's let them handle it. We do not need a three front war in our lifetime right now," added Burchett.
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