{"id":18833,"date":"2026-03-19T19:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=18833"},"modified":"2026-03-19T19:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:32:31","slug":"yeah-that-is-the-smell-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/yeah-that-is-the-smell-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, That Is the Smell of War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lafe Tolliver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq<\/em>
\nGuest Column<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, it is official. Trump has ordered 5,000 troops, so far, to the Middle East as \u201cback-up\u201d for whatever may come during his \u201cgut\u201d ordered war with Iran.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration and his clown car of clueless counselors are acting like the Keystone Cops in their frantic efforts to both portray the war as being won already and also as \u201cjust finishing up some leftover business.\u201d<\/p>\n

With oil prices in free fall and food and gas prices spiking daily, Trump wants to give the false illusion that all is well and he is in control and that a little pain now is worth the results down the road.<\/p>\n

Apparently Trump and his toy soldier, Pete Hegseth, want to give the impression that they are like two tough guys in the Bronx ready to beat down anyone that moves without their permission.<\/p>\n

Question: Why does and how does an American President state on social media that he is proud and honored to be killing Iranians and there is no gigantic blowback from Congress?<\/p>\n

Answer: The GOP is complicit with him in that assessment brought on by some of their members indicating that Muslims do not belong in America!<\/p>\n

And you wonder why the dogs of war and lone wolf type killers are being enabled to carry out their own mission of hate towards both Muslims and Jews in\u00a0America.<\/p>\n

If you have a feeling that the government in D.C. is teetering on the brink of\u00a0stupidity, you are not wrong and especially so when we learn that Trump and his\u00a0cabal did not factor in Iran closing the vital Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

Of course if Trump was not a self declared \u201cstable genius\u201d he would not have\u00a0dissed so many experienced military advisors who could have given him vital\u00a0information from their collective hundreds of years of military experience.<\/p>\n

Their advice would have been valuable and necessary but only to a sane president who values collateral information other than what the discredited MAGA\u00a0base may offer up.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, here we now are, seemingly gearing up for a major expansion of this war (originally called an excursion!) with the future landing of sailors and the Marines in the Middle East?<\/p>\n

I have no love lost for the Iranian regime and its despicable acts towards humanity and its determination to obtain a nuke so as to decimate our friend, Israel.<\/p>\n

But, so much for his repeated promise of no more foreign wars and no boots on the ground in the Middle East. A good campaign promise but anyone who knows Trump and his proclivity for being a perpetual prevaricator, should have dismissed that promise as groundless.<\/p>\n

And, in the background noise, do I hear the dreadful word, \u201cdraft\u201d being bandied about if these 5,000 Marines are overwhelmed if they try any sneak invasions into Iran?<\/p>\n

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The world has been thrown into turmoil due to the capriciousness and mental<\/p>\n

folly of one person\u2026Donald Trump. And we all will pay for it and pay for it also in part because the GOP in Congress are like blind mice chasing their tails because they are totally emasculated by the bully language of their Dear Leader and do not want to cross him because the \u201cbase\u201d will be enraged if Trump is attacked.<\/p>\n

Would continued diplomacy have worked with the Iranian government as opposed to starting this war? We will now never know but we do know that the<\/p>\n

Iranian government which has named America, the Great Satan, is insatiable with its zeal to attack the US (in whatever format) and Israel; will forever be on our watch list as a nation to be closely monitored.<\/p>\n

And if United Nations sanctions cannot caused the Iranian government to step away from any military use of its nuclear products, Iran bears forever watching (like other similarly situated countries) for the good, safety and welfare of the planet.<\/p>\n

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Contact Lafe Tolliver at lafe5x@gmail.com<\/em><\/p>\n

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