Over the past several days we have seen unprecedented re-orientation of US vast military might from the coast of California to Qatar and everything in-between.

President Trump is set to take the United States into a "pre-emptive" war against a country that has not attacked us nor has it threatened us. He is doing so while explicitly denigrating his own entire Intelligence Community, which continues to maintain that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon nor does it already possess WMDs.

(Remember we went to war just over 20 years ago on the neocon lie that Iraq possessed WMDs?)

This exchange happened just this afternoon:

Reporter: "Your intelligence community says Iran isn't building a nuke."
Trump: "They're wrong. Who said that?"
Reporter: "Your DNI, Tulsi Gabbard."
Trump: "She is wrong."

The President's spokesperson yesterday again made the claim, refuted by the entire US Intelligence Community, that Iran was just "a couple of weeks" away from a nuclear bomb.

Journalist Saagar Enjeti questioned that assertion from the Trump Press Secretary and the response was astonishing. As he recently wrote:

So President Trump has tossed aside the collective judgement of the entire US Intelligence Community in favor of the "assessment" of a foreign intelligence service whose motto is literally, "By way of deception you shall engage in war."