By Sanford Bach–
Sedona, AZ — Yeah. Let’s face it. We are at war. Do you hear me? War! Get that through your head, America, because apparently some of you are more concerned about the price of gasoline and groceries than you are about NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION!
So cut our government a break. Our leaders are protecting us from Iran getting the bomb and casting the entire world into a nuclear holocaust. And what are Americans doing? Complaining that eggs cost too much. Eggs!
What good are cheap eggs when the planet has been reduced to a smoking radioactive cinder? You going to fry them on the hood of your vaporized Buick? Think, people!
Imagine Iran gets one bomb. Just one. BOOM! There goes civilization. New York? Gone. Los Angeles? Gone. Chicago? Gone. Cleveland? Probably gone, although somebody would have to check. The oceans boil. The mountains melt. The moon falls out of orbit. Nobody knows! That’s why we can’t take chances.
And you’re worried about gasoline going up a few bucks? Suck it up. Walk. Ride a bicycle. Buy a horse. This is America, for crying out loud. Our grandparents stormed beaches, built tanks and planted victory gardens. You can’t pay another twenty bucks to fill up the SUV?
We should be proud to sacrifice. Cut a few pennies here. Cut a few pennies there. Skip dessert. Wear the same underwear two days in a row. Whatever it takes to finance the war effort.
Think about our soldiers. Think about our pilots. Think about our troops. Think about the men and women putting themselves in harm’s way to protect us, our country and our way of life.
We are Americans. We are strong. We are proud. We are the greatest country in the world. Everybody wants to live here. We are the defenders of peace.
And that is precisely why we must wage war.
You can’t have peace without war. Everybody knows that.
And now, with the midterm elections getting closer, this is no time to start whining about the cost of living. We need unity. WE need to win both houses. If we lose the world will never be the same again. Stop your complaining. Get it into your heads:
- ARE. AT. WAR. Period.
War is fighting. War is killing. War is ruthless. War is no mercy. War is war. And that is why we have to stand behind our government, our troops and our president.
Because we cannot let Iran get the bomb. Not one. They get one bomb and it’s dominoes, baby. One bomb becomes two. Two becomes four. Four becomes eight. Pretty soon somebody has 64 bombs, Greenland disappears, the North Pole explodes, Santa is homeless and civilization is over.
Do you want that on your conscience? Of course not.
So, stop whining. We need a unified country. We need Americans standing tall, waving our flags and refusing to take any shit from anybody.
And anybody who says America isn’t perfect needs to take a good hard look in the mirror. You think we’re bad? Bad? We’re Americans!
We’re proud to be Americans. We’ll fight to the end. We’ll fight when we’re fighting. We’ll fight when we’re not fighting. And if necessary, we’ll fight about whether we’re fighting.
That’s how committed we are.
So quit complaining about gasoline. Quit complaining about groceries. Quit complaining about inflation. Take your medicine. Make your sacrifices. Keep America strong.
Because remember: If Iran gets even one nuclear bomb, the entire planet could explode.
And then just imagine what gasoline will cost.
That’s all I have to say.
— Sanford Bach
8 Comments
If-If and Buts were candy!
The exact same hysteria about psychopaths like Un of N Korea, ISIL/Bin Laden pals Pakistan, 9/11 co-conspirators Saudi Arabia or Trumps BFF Putin is somehow non existent in the entirety of you op-ed. They all have Nukes or will be sold -how to instructions perhaps for a bigly new varoom varoom aeroplane? They’re all murderous psychopaths with their fingers on the button and absolutely no love, concern nor compassion for those they would melt into Trinitite both in the countries they target and the ones they’re supposed to be protecting (their own) but could care less about so long as they get to continue to live in their gilded gold palaces. Just like our current brainless leaders do daily right here in the US of Arrogance.
And why do we who are the only country on earth to actually incinerate thousands and thousands of un armed Japanese men women and children get to decide who gets to have that genocidal, homicidal and suicidal hell on earth weaponry. Russia (Americas enemy since the Berlin Wall went up which is far longer than Iran has been a enemy) probably has one of their Oreshnik, Avangard, Kinzhal or Zircon hypersonic missiles developed to carry multiple nuclear weapons. Something Iran is not even close to having and yet our hair is on fire about them and absolutely nobody else except perhaps Canada, NATO and Greenland!
Then there’s Trump’s other BFFrenemy Xi and his AI domination and South Sea aggression with daily taunts to take Taiwan. We are too busy in and overwhelmed in the Red Sea and Straight of Hormuz and Middle Eastern Region as a whole to do jack squat to China should it get froggy and jump on Taiwan in Blitzkrieg fashion.
We lost this ignorant illegal evidence lacking war long before we ever fired a shot! We lost because we failed to support the Iranians we needed to make the one and only true US objective (regime change) happen just like W Bush tried and failed to do in his illegal fabricated evidence daddy vendetta war upon Iraq because of 9/11 which they had absolutely zilch to do with. Not a single hijacker was Iraqi- nor were they Iranian as the orange buffoon has inferred multiple times on and since 9/11.
Should Iran somehow manage to manufacture a ballistic nuclear weapon out of the rubble that is now Iran and capable of actually reaching a target it would most likely be low yield and dirty. The retaliation for them attempting to do so would be met with nuclear Annihilation of their entire country and much of the surrounding ones in the region which would draw every nuclear nation on earth into the conflict and it is doubtful Iran aspires to have such devastation to the seat of their religion and peoples history just to do something stupid because they can. That’s for our current POTUS and government to do and they do so on a daily basis. Which is why we’re at war with Iran and having this discussion. If Iran were able to develop a nuclear weapon they would be a fledgling nuclear power with minimal nuclear capability. As already stated, there are dozens of other nuclear countries led by madmen just like those currently leading Iran only they have many nukes with greater range and yield.
If this war is justifiable someone needs to tell the families of out 18 KIA and 200+ WIA why it is that our leaders cannot even decide if it is a war and if so why we are at war without Congressional authorization? The answer is a lie within a lie and meanwhile the families of those killed do not get compensation they would have if we were truly at war. Those wounded will not get compensation for wounds resulting from armed conflict during wartime. No! They’re considered to be peacetime soldiers who just happen to be in the line of fire of hostile forces we are not in a formerly Congressionally sanctioned declared war with. This means they can get treated for “service related “ injuries and illnesses but they will not qualify for the services afforded combat wounded veterans with VA preferences granted certain combat wounded bs peace time veterans.
Now the Orange clown is blaming their favorite punching bag (Ukraine) for the skyrocketing (and climbing) cost of fuel here in the US rather than being a man of integrity and accepting accountability for the crisis he alone very much manufactured. Perhaps this is due to Don Jr’s recent Russian bankrolled wedding? Rusher Rusher Rusher indeed!
Stoopidity! Bigly! Cofefe!
Is this article satire?
@@Sanford Bach
Looks like it but you know someone on that frequency is truly thinking those absurdities.
The regime in Iran has murdered more of its own citizens than the US Military. It is a sad fact, proven over 40 years, that the government in Iran is evil and corrupt.
General Norman Swartzkoff said, “Only a fool wants war.” When confronted by evil, we are forced to make choices. No one wants a conflict, but a nuclear Iran would start World War 3. They plainly stated their goals. They have repeatedly called for “death to America,” “Death to Israel.” They have never offered peace, only hatred and violence. You may not like our Commander in Chief, but as Steve Jobs said, “If you want to make people happy, don’t be a leader. Sell ice cream instead.”
The US Military has killed more innocent Iranian civilians than the Iranian regime ever has. We kill and imprison innocent Americans daily right here in M’erica too! You also seemingly gloss over the Shah and our direct involvement in his crimes. Stormin Norman was a soldier and tactician not a politician. He would’ve been fired by the Draft Dodger and Thief for not playing his Nazi games with him just as he’s done to every other General Officer who refused to be a Nazi General that blindly follows the Fuhrer whims and crimes against humanity. Trump is a convicted felon and known draft dodger not a leader and most definitely not a good one! He ran from Vietnam and he’d run from any situation requiring him to fight for this country which is why he sucks up to Un, Xi, Putin and other enemies of this country who have many many nukes vs Irans “0” nukes. Where is your concern about WWIII starting at the hand of one of Trump’s pals and enemies of M’erica?
I don’t want Iran being a nuclear power anymore than I want N Korea, Rusher, Chyyyna or any other rogue anti American country who have hundreds of thousands of US warr dead on their bloody hands. Fact is they’re not one but let’s not pretend these other rogue nations do not pose more of a nuclear threat to the world than Iran ever has or will. We all know you drank the MAGA KoolAid but parroting the hysteria of a regime that started an illegal war against a sovereign nation because they might eventually some day have the same weapon as many other sworn enemies of America around the globe have and continue to develop unfettered by the US government and military just show the level of your MAGA brain damage.
“The regime in Iran has murdered more of its own citizens than the US Military. It is a sad fact, proven over 40 years, that the government in Iran is evil and corrupt”
You claim feign concern and compassion for Iranian civilians killed by their own government but support the US killing 3 x the number of their civilians with weapons fired from miles and miles away by cowards who will never see their faces up close.
Comparing civilian casualties caused by the U.S. military across the Middle East versus those killed by the Iranian government involves distinct historical contexts, operational scopes, and estimates from independent human rights organizations.
U.S. Military Actions in the Middle East
• Post-9/11 wars caused over 432,000 direct civilian deaths.
• Conflicts spanned Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan.
• Brown University’s Costs of War project documented these figures.
• The 2026 U.S.-Israeli war added 1,400+ Iranian civilian deaths.
• Casualties resulted from airstrikes, shelling, and infrastructure damage.
• Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) tracked recent Iranian tolls.
Iranian Government Actions Against Civilians
• State crackdowns have killed thousands of Iranian citizens.
• Protests over recent years saw hundreds to 1,500+ deaths.
• The state enforces thousands of political and judicial executions.
• United Nations experts cite systematic regime violence against citizens.
• Repression targets domestic dissidents, ethnic minorities, and protesters.
🔎 Comparative Context
• U.S. tolls stem from foreign military interventions spanning decades.
• Iranian tolls reflect internal state suppression and governance methods.
• Both totals face verification challenges due to state censorship.
U.S. Embassy & Consulates in China
The Iranian Regime’s Decades of Terrorism Against American Citizens
Mar 4, 2026 — Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 241 U.S. military personnel — including 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel. Iran and its proxies conducted …
Costs of War | Brown University
Human | Costs of War | Brown University
According to research by Costs of War, an estimated 940,000 people were killed by direct post-9/11 war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan…
BBC
Thousands killed in US-Israeli war on Iran – but experts say true total may never be known
According to official Iranian government figures, at least 3,468 Iranians have been killed since the US-Israeli war began in February. This includes: * 1,460 ci…
U.N. experts cite possible U.S. war crimes in Iran strikes
“The only party in this conflict that has committed war crimes is the Iranian regime, which has murdered thousands of its own people, killed Americans overseas,
Center for American Progress
The Human and Environmental Costs of the War in Iran
The entire war is unconstitutional on multiple fronts;5 the United States and Israel failed to account for the reverberating effects of their conduct on civilia…
BBC
A committed pharmacist and a homesick blogger – the Iranian civilians killed in the war
Mar 23, 2026 — The US-Israeli war on Iran has resulted in thousands of civilian casualties. The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) has recorded more than 1,400 civilia…
Side-by-side footage compares the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq with …
Side-by-side footage compares the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq with the current US-Israeli war on Iran. Civilian casualties – estimates of 100,000+ excess Iraqi…
Funny how you purposely left out all of the hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians the US has killed in the Middle East. There are hundreds if not thousands of known war crimes committed by US troops and you conveniently left that fact out-
Over the past 40 years, military actions involving U.S. forces in the Middle East have faced formal investigations and documentation by international bodies, human rights organizations, and military courts regarding serious violations of the laws of war, detainee abuse, and civilian casualties.Detainee Abuse and TortureAbu Ghraib Prison (Iraq, 2003–2004): U.S. military personnel subjected detainees to physical and sexual abuse, humiliation, torture, and severe beatings, documented extensively and leading to criminal convictions of several low-ranking service members by military courts-martial.CIA “Black Sites” and Extraordinary Rendition: Following 2001, the U.S. operated secret detention facilities outside standard jurisdiction where detainees underwent enhanced interrogation techniques characterized as torture by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and human rights investigators.Guantanamo Bay: The long-term detention of prisoners without trial or access to standard prisoner-of-war protections drew widespread condemnation from international legal bodies for violating fundamental human rights and due process.Unlawful Civilian Killings and IncidentsHaditha Massacre (Iraq, 2005): U.S. Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians, including women and children, following a roadside bomb attack. The incident led to multiple investigations and a series of courts-martial, resulting in mostly administrative penalties or acquittals, which brought intense scrutiny to rules of engagement.Mahmudiyah Killings (Iraq, 2006): U.S. soldiers raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdered her family members. The perpetrators were prosecuted and convicted in U.S. federal and military courts.Nisour Square Massacre (Iraq, 2007): Private military contractors working for Blackwater, operating under U.S. security contracts, fired into a crowded Baghdad square, killing 14 Iraqi civilians. This resulted in federal convictions and later presidential pardons.Indiscriminate Airstrikes and Operational CasualtiesAirstrike Casualties: Human rights groups and investigations by organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch documented numerous incidents where U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria failed to take adequate precautions to distinguish between civilian objects and military targets, leading to high numbers of non-combatant casualties.
More-
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/in-the-dark/the-war-crimes-that-the-military-buried
Just because the perpetrators of War Crimes exempt themselves from the ICC’s jurisdiction does not mean they haven’t committed war crimes. It means they think they are above the laws they enforce upon everyone else except themselves-
The U.S. Department of Justice formally rejected any International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction over U.S. persons, stating that the nation is not a party to the Rome Statute.
U.S. Legal Position
• No Consent: The Department of Justice stated that the United States has never consented to the authority of the ICC.
• Rejected Authority: U.S. officials maintain that the court has no legal basis to assert jurisdiction over citizens of non-member countries.
• Sovereignty Defense: The administration asserts that investigations into American personnel violate national sovereignty.
Administration Actions and Sanctions
• Call for Withdrawals: President Donald Trump urged all member states to withdraw from the ICC during a speech at the United Nations on September 22, 2026.
• Targeted Penalties: The U.S. government placed sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes, on at least 11 ICC officials, including judges and the chief prosecutor.
• Criticism from Leadership: Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the ICC as an illegitimate organization that puts American service members at risk of unjust prosecution.
Background on Investigations
• Afghanistan Probe: The ICC initiated an investigation in 2020 into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan, which included scrutiny of American military and intelligence operations.
• Opposition to Cases: Washington has consistently opposed ICC proceedings regarding Afghanistan and actions by allied nations in Gaza, pressing the court to drop ongoing inquiries
The Hypocrisy of MAGA is more than palpable, it infects the entire world with it! We do not own the Middle East nor it’s natural resources we have sought to steal by force for decades now and have failed miserably because we are outsiders, foreign oppressors who have zero respect for their people, history, cultures and especially their religion. If the show were on the other foot perhaps you’d finally understand your own ignorance.
“Imagine Iran gets one bomb. Just one. BOOM! There goes civilization. New York? Gone. Los Angeles? Gone. Chicago? Gone. Cleveland? Probably gone, although somebody would have to check. The oceans boil. The mountains melt. The moon falls out of orbit. Nobody knows! That’s why we can’t take chances”
North Korea, Pakistan, India, China and Russia and other despotic regimes all individually have many many nukes. Each have made it known they are not friends or allies of the US. Yet you worry about Iran possibly maybe having the ability to develop one of them? Square that with some fact and logic mate and perhaps someone might listen to you. Until then you’re just repeating propaganda and nonsense. Let’s start with why it is that Iran had a falling out with the US in the very first place after we got ourselves involved in their sovereign politics and helped a known political criminal (the Shah) flee Iran and escape Iranian Justice for crimes against the state. The US started the 40+ years of ongoing conflict between Iran and the USA. It poked the hornets nest and now it cries because they are getting stung in return.
Iran turned against the United States during the 1979 fall of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi primarily because the Shah of Iran was viewed as an American puppet whose authoritarian regime, rapid Westernization, and brutal secret police were propped up by Washington.Historical Intervention and the 1953 CoupThe Mossadegh Overthrow: In 1953, the CIA and British intelligence orchestrated a coup that ousted Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, after he nationalized the oil industry.Restoring the Monarchy: The coup restored the Shah to absolute power, cementing deep public resentment toward the U.S. for destroying Iran’s democratic experiment for the sake of oil.The Perception of Subservience and “Westoxification”Foreign Domination: The Shah relied heavily on U.S. military and political backing, spending billions on American arms while suppressing domestic dissent through his dreaded secret police, SAVAK.Cultural Backlash: His rapid, aggressive secularization and modernization policies—termed “Westoxification” by critics—alienated traditional religious scholars, the working poor, and rural citizens who rallied behind Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.Diplomatic Immunities: The 1964 Status of Forces Agreement, which granted American military personnel immunity from Iranian courts, was blasted by Khomeini as proof of national enslavement.The Revolution and AsylumAnti-Imperialist Rhetoric: Khomeini framed the revolution as a holy struggle against foreign imperialism, explicitly branding the U.S. as the “Great Satan” supporting a tyrant.Safe Haven for the Shah: When the Shah fled Iran in January 1979, the subsequent decision by the U.S. to admit him into America for cancer treatment later that year triggered profound fears that Washington would orchestrate another 1953-style counter-coup, directly sparking the takeover of the U.S. Embassy and the Iran hostage crisis
Facts matter Hysteria does NOT!
So Iran is going to start WWIII with a single nuclear weapon? What will they do if that weapon fails to launch or misses it’s intended target? It’s not like they’ve a stockpile of them like North Korea or China with which they could use to withstand retaliatory strikes. When do we flatten North Korea for threatening the US for over 80+ years now and killing hundreds of thousands of US and Allied Forces and South Korean civilians? They kill and torture their own people to this very day. Most are imprisoned in forced labor camps or just killed outright for the slightest perceived indiscretion against the government.
Oh wait Kim Jung Un is a Trump BFF so he gets a pass. Putin and Xi get passes as well. Why is that exactly Mr hater of all things brown or Muslim?
I wouldn’t quote people who are actual patriots and served their country on the battlefield like Schwarzkopf if I were you. You won’t like the fact that none of them worth their stars would ever have supported this current illegal war upon Iran and have plenty to say about the true enemy of the world- fascist and fascism which includes the current US fascist administration. Like General Milley asked the Congress when confronted about being “woke” (which he certainly is not he’s just an educated Guerilla Warfare veteran)-
During a June 2021 House Armed Services Committee hearing, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley testified under oath alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. In a forceful exchange with GOP representatives Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz over military diversity efforts and critical race theory, Milley defiantly questioned the root of the January 6th attack. Defending the military’s study of diverse perspectives, he famously stated his desire to understand “White rage” and asked, “What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America? What caused that?” He also called it “offensive” to label service members “woke” for examining such topics, noting that reading various theorists does not make one a communist.
Special Operations has taught the lessons of Ho, Mao, Lennon and many others at the JFK Warfare Center since during the war against Vietnam. Not learning how others think has long been determined a military weakness not a strength as those cowards grilling Milley will never ever understand because of ignorance not strength.