{"id":45639,"date":"2024-01-26T12:13:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=45639"},"modified":"2024-01-26T12:13:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:13:41","slug":"biden-gearing-up-for-us-deaths-in-syria-and-iraq-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/26\/biden-gearing-up-for-us-deaths-in-syria-and-iraq-war-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Gearing Up for US Deaths in Syria and Iraq \u2013 War With Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Joe Biden seeks to become the all-time champ at destroying countries during his presidency. Not satisfied at degrading Ukraine, Gaza and Yemen, he\u2019s turned his gun sight on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>His road to war with Iran is based on the premise they are behind the 140 missile attacks that have wounded over 70 US soldiers in Iraq and Syria. Of course, Biden has made those 3,400 soldiers there sitting ducks since they illegally occupy countries that for some strange reason, want them out.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Shi\u2019ite militias there have been targeting US troops there for years, but the attacks have become relentless since Biden began supporting and arming Israel\u2019s ongoing genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza 110 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and his war team warn that if a single US soldier is killed, he may have no choice but to attack Iran, even tho the Pentagon said it has no direct evidence Iran is directing the attacks by the Iraqi and Syrian militias.<\/p>\n<p>One US official said a single US death could be the red line that results in US retaliation against Iran. So far, \u201cThat is a red line that has not been crossed, but if the Iranian-backed militias ever have a day of better aim or better luck, it easily could be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Better aim or better luck&#8230; all that\u2019s required for Joe Biden to ravage his fourth country in 3 years.<\/p>\n<p><i>Walt Zlotow became involved in antiwar activities upon entering University of Chicago in 1963. He is current president of the West Suburban Peace Coalition based in the Chicago western suburbs. He blogs daily on antiwar and other issues at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartlandprogressive.blogspot.com\">www.heartlandprogressive.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Joe Biden seeks to become the all-time champ at destroying countries during his presidency. Not satisfied at degrading Ukraine, Gaza and Yemen, he\u2019s turned his gun sight on Iran. His road to war with Iran is based on the premise they are behind the 140 missile attacks that have wounded over 70 US soldiers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-45639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45645,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45639\/revisions\/45645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45639"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=45639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}