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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted the Bible — specifically the Old Testament — on Tuesday during remarks on the progress of the war against Iran, leaving some to express concerns about Christian nationalism and his potentially executing a holy or religious war.

Noting that he had just returned from Dover Air Force Base to accept the dignified transfer of another service member killed in the Iran war, Hegseth said, “I’ll close with Scripture, drawing strength from Psalm 144.”

“Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle,” he said. “He is my loving God and my fortress. My stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge. May the Lord grant unyielding strength and refuge to our warriors. Unbreakable protection to them in our homeland. And total victory over those who seek to harm them. Amen.”

Critics slammed his introduction of the religious text.

At The New Republic, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: “The Christian nationalist undertones of this war are getting even more obvious.”

“Listening to Hegseth read Psalm 144 feels like an ominous justification for further aggression rather than a comforting message,” Ferguson said.

“While it’s a lovely verse traditionally attributed to King David, it does not accurately portray the reality of the situation whatsoever,” he wrote. “The United States is the Goliath of this story, along with Israel. The countries’ joint attacks of aggression have killed over 1,200 Iranians, many of them young schoolgirls. Iranian fuel depots were hit so hard that oil rained from the sky in Tehran on Sunday. Seven American service members have died because a president who promised peace sent them to war for money and regime change, not liberation.”

Professor of public policy Josh Cowen responded to Secretary Hegseth’s reading of scripture: “He could have chosen Jesus’s words ‘Blessed are they who mourn’ or if he was really craving a psalm, ‘The Lord is my shepherd.'”

“Instead he’s sporting militant quotes not to assuage grief but to justify his actions that caused it,” Cowen said.

Dutch journalist Michael van der Galien, according to a translation on X, called it “concerning that Pete Hegseth uses a passage from the Old Testament to suggest that God would bless a specific war between America, Israel, and Iran.”

“From a Catholic perspective, war is always a tragedy and only justified under strict conditions of just war theory, such as self-defense and the protection of innocents, not as a divine mandate.”

Professor Massimo Faggioli, a Church historian, according to a translation on X, wrote of Hegseth’s Scripture quoting, “they’ll do absolutely anything to make it look like a religious war.”

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         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

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Trump's Iran War FIB Gets EXPOSED

DJT claims....

US President Donald Trump has claimed that talks with Tehran “are going very well” and delayed strikes on the Islamic Republic’s power facilities for another 10 days, while the Pentagon is reportedly mulling sending another 10,000 troops to the region.

The Department of War is considering deploying up to 10,000 additional ground forces to the Middle East to expand the US leader’s military options against Iran, according to officials familiar with the planning, the Wall Street Journal reported. The US military is devising a “final blow” to Iran that could see American ground troops deployed on Iranian soil, according to Axios sources.

If approved, the new deployment would add to thousands of troops already en route to the region, including approximately 2,000 to 3,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division and two Marine Expeditionary Units totaling an estimated 4,500 to 5,000 Marines and support personnel.

In the meantime Trump has again touted alleged progress in negotiations with unnamed Iranian interlocutors, repeatedly hinting at an imminent deal to calm turbulent global markets. 

Tehran has denied holding direct talks with the US and outlined strict conditions for any ceasefire, refusing to talk on Washington’s terms, after the US and Israel already “backstabbed” Iran twice during negotiations last summer and in February.

Here are the latest developments:

  • Trump initially threatened last Saturday to “obliterate”Iran’s power network if it does not reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz to international shipping. After Tehran warned it will retaliate against the entire regional energy infrastructure, Trump on Monday postponed his threat for five days. On Thursday, he again postponed the deadline until April 6, claiming that Tehran begged for more time.
  • Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who was reportedly “temporarily” removed from the US-Israeli kill list for Washington to have someone to talk to, has insisted that receiving messages does not constitute “talks.”
  • Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir reportedly warned a security cabinet meeting that without a new conscription law, a reserve duty law and a law to extend mandatory service, the IDF will “collapse in on itself” due to a mounting manpower shortage.

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I WOULD NOT TRUST A WORD COMING FROM TRUMP'S BUTT [WHICH HE USES AS A MOUTH]... 10 DAYS?... TOMORROW IS SATURDAY... PREPARE FOR ANOTHER DEVIOUS DONALD-FLIP.... SATURDAYS ARE HIS DAYS OF CHOICE TO BE A HYPOCRITE ON THE DEAL/BATTLEFIELD... BEWARE, HE SAYS PEACE FOR 10 DAYS AND DEAL, HE MEANS WAR AND A PUNCH BELOW THE BELT NOW.

IRAN, SHOULD YOU RELAX YOUR BUTTOCK, YOU'LL BE MOURNING MORE DEATHS..... I BELIEVE YOU KNOW THIS...

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.