Trump invaded Iran based on a "feeling"?

After a great long post the other day about the US war against Iran, here's a much shorter, but no less damning, one.

When the USA invaded Iraq back in in 1991, George HW Bush got United Nations backing and a vote in Congress before he went in to Iraq, which had just invaded little Kuwait.

When the USA invaded Iraq again in 2003, his son George W. also obtained Congressional approval and, although he didn't actually get UN Security Council clearance, he did have the support of a good 40 members of the UN. The issue, you might remember, was his conviction that Iraq had accumulated a stock of "weapons of mass destruction" (a phrase you don't often hear these days, but basically we are talking about nuclear bombs). That claim turned out to be demonstrably false, but Bush and a majority in Congress, a whole host of other countries, and even apparently most Iraqis, did believe it to be true.

Fast forward to February 2026, and Donald Trump set in motion a full-scale war on Iran without telling a soul - not Congress, not the UN, not the Security Council, just the leaders of Israel (who can only loosely be described as having a soul). Trump made his decision because, as he always himself, he had a "feeling" that Iran was imminently about to attack the US (or possibly Israel, or possibly some other country): "It was my opinion that they were going to attack first. If we didn't do it, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that."

Wow. So, there you have it in a nutshell: Trump declared a war in which hundreds have already died based on a hunch, a feeling, an opinion. Watch the video. It will creep you out forever.