Is this whole Iran War thing starting to feel a lot like Sharpiegate?

[Ol Janx Spirit]

Credit: The White House from Washington, DC

Remember back in the good old days of 2019 when Hurricane Dorian was approaching the U.S. mainland and DonOld tweeted out that it would affect Alabama despite the fact that the state was not expected to be hit?

On Sept. 1, with Hurricane Dorian wreaking havoc in the Bahamas and poised to strike the southeastern United States, President Donald Trump tweeted that Alabama would “most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.” Twenty minutes later, the National Weather Service (NWS) in Birmingham sent a contradictory tweet, saying, “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from Dorian.” The media and the public read NWS Birmingham’s tweet as correcting the president — and apparently, so did the president.

A few days later, in a video from the Oval Office, Trump provided an update on the storm, referencing a map that was apparently doctored with a Sharpie pen to show the storm’s path veering into Alabama. Two days after the so-called “Sharpiegate,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a statement seemingly chastising NWS Birmingham for its Sept. 1 tweet, saying it “spoke in absolutist terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best forecast products available at the time.”

https://americanoversight.org/how-sharpiegate-turned-a-simple-misunderstanding-into-a-media-frenzy-and-headache-for-noaa-employees/

It was astounding at the time. How could anyone be so bullheaded that they would quadruple-down on a simple mistake that any normal human being would admit to and just move on? And even worse, how could they order a government agency to lie in furtherance of this mistake as a coverup? How could they disrupt the lives of Americans looking for accurate information in a time of potential crisis? What normal person would alter an official government document with a Sharpie just to make it say what they wanted it to say--not what was true?

Everything the Administration has put out about the war in Iran feels like the international war equivalent of Sharpiegate. The intelligence does not seem to agree with what the Administration says. Our allies do not seem to agree with what the Administration says. There is very little to support what they do say other than the shifting sands of their own narratives. They have decided what they wanted the truth to be and drawn it on the map with a Sharpie, and now we are all forced to live with the consequences.

And, as with Hurricane Dorian--a natural force that really didn't care what some idiot tweeted out about it--this war will not care what the idiots that started it draw on their war maps with their own Sharpies.

The only thing we can count on--just like back then--is that it all comes from the addled mind of a man that can never tell the truth or admit fault.

I guess we will just have to hope this storm blows over as well....

And like Sharpiegate: whatever happens, only blame will be assigned; fault will never be admitted.

[Blues Heron]

1. It's more abuse from the abuser who is dying to nuke something, anything. He is getting close to his twisted grail

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. You make a compelling case

K&R

[usonian]

3. Three solid reasons for war,.