The night before l voted against going to war in Iraq, my sister, Beverly, told me that a Knoxville television station had run a poll and found that in East Tennessee, 74 percent were in favor of going to war, 9 percent were against it, and 17 percent were undecided.

In very sharp contrast, theNew York Timessaid only 41 percent favored going to war in Iran, and several polls showed even less support, in the 20-30 percent range, before the war started.

In comparison, theTimessurvey said 97 percent favored going to war after Pearl Harbor, 92 percent supported the war in Afghanistan, and 76 percent were for going to war in Iraq.

Despite a brief “rally around the flag” period shortly after the Iran War started because many feel they should “support the troops,” this war has become less popular with each passing day. In fact, many people have called it the most unpopular war in US history.

I became one of Donald Trump’s first Congressional endorsers because he was the only Republican running for President in 2016, after Rand Paul decided not to run, who had criticized the war in Iraq.

Also, Trump promised to run with an America First agenda, which I had supported as far back as the campaigns of Pat Buchanan, who was a hero to me.

However, the war in Iran is putting Israel First, making Benjamin Netanyahu’s dreams come true. It is certainly not putting America First.

Nothing hits home in this land of pickup trucks more than sharp increases in gas prices. Also fertilizer and natural gas prices have gone way up. If this war continues and gas goes to $5 or $6 a gallon, and grocery and utility bills jump up at the same time, Republicans will suffer very big losses in November.

I wish every gas station would post signs thanking Netanyahu, Lindsay Graham, and Mark Levin for the higher gas prices. These three blind warmongers have been the main cheerleaders for war in Iran and seem to be the closest to Trump’s ear on this.

Of course they have been aided and abetted by Miriam Adelson’s $100 million and the propaganda machine at Fox News. All of the hosts on Fox and the editors at the Wall Street Journal and New York Post know they would be gone very quickly if they if they failed to adhere to Rupert Murdoch’s Israel First agenda.

Source: Antiwar.com