Trump Generating His Own Fog Of Disinformation About Iran War |
Trump Generating His Own Fog Of Disinformation About Iran War
George W. Bush’s false claims about Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction” generated scandal. Trump’s open lies about his war with Iran are barely generating a shrug.
Senior White House Correspondent, HuffPost
While every military conflict brings difficulty in understanding what is really happening at the front lines, President Donald Trump’s war against Iran features its own unique fog of misinformation: the commander-in-chief himself.
In the span of just a few hours Monday, Trump claimed the war he started unilaterally was almost over, that Iran was within two weeks of producing a nuclear weapon last summer, that it possessed American Tomahawk missiles and used one against its own schoolchildren, that he had to attack Iran because it was about to attack the United States, that other Gulf states had joined the fight against Iran and that, oh, by the way, his war was not actually almost over.
Not a single factual assertion was supported by evidence, and a couple were demonstrably false.
Doug Lute, a retired Army general and former U.S. ambassador to NATO, said Trump’s open lying about the Iran war continues to degrade America’s relationship with allies. “His lies and ignorance erode confidence in us........