By Sara Jacobs in Washington, D.C.
Our country spent $11.3 billion on just the first six days of Trump’s war of choice in Iran.
That’s more than a billion dollars a day that could have been invested in affordable health care, housing, childcare, or practically infinite other needs to help the American people.
And now, gas prices are going up – nearly SIX DOLLARS a gallon in San Diego, more than a $1 increase since the start of the war.
But that’s OK, because Trump called all this “a very small price to pay.”
Tell that to the tens of millions of people who are already struggling to cover their basic needs like groceries and rent.
The costs of Trump’s reckless war are rising by the day, and all of us – the American people, our service members, Iranian civilians – are paying the price, in every sense of the word.
Already 13 U.S. service members have been killed and more than 200 wounded – and the Trump administration can’t even get their messaging straight on whether we’re at war with Iran.
There’s no clear objective, no defined endgame, and no plan for what comes next.
More than a thousand Iranian civilians have reportedly been killed since the start of this war.
Nearly 200 Iranian people, most of them little girls, were killed in a school attack later proven to be from U.S. forces.
Please tell me how killing literal children makes us any safer?
Some of the devastation we can’t even begin to calculate. We’ve seen apocalyptic photos coming out of Tehran. Plumes of orange and black smoke filling the city air after Iran’s oil infrastructure was struck. Toxic smoke, polluted drinking water, the trauma of war – all of it will have significant impacts on people’s health for years to come.
This is the reality of Trump’s illegal war. Rising costs, mounting casualties and civilian harms, and no plan to get out.
We’ve seen this show before, and we know exactly how it ends. Trump’s massive strategic mistake will have long-reaching national security implications, won’t make Americans any safer, and will impact our collective future.
We need to end this reckless war now – full stop.
I’m doing everything I can in the House to hold this administration accountable, and I’m going to continue demanding answers to the most basic questions about this administration’s strategy, intentions, and potential costs of this war with Iran. And I won’t support any funding for Trump’s misguided regime change war and military adventurism.
Right now, it’s important that we all continue to speak out and stand up for what we believe.
I hope you’ll continue reaching out to your representatives regularly to share your strong opposition to continued war. Public outcries do matter, and we’ve seen countless times during this administration that they can make an impact.
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Sara Jacobs, a member of San Diego’s Jewish community, is a Democratic representative of San Diego in Congress.
Rep Sarah Jacobs need to rethink issues to do with the Iran scrap that is going on. The Iran Government has been hostile to Israel and the USA since they got rid of the Shah. I have monitored the situation in Iran since I came home from Europe and Israel and Egypt via Iran in 1981.
They intend to destroy Israel and do what ever damage they can to the USA. The primary reason for this war is to destroy Iran’s nuclear systems including enrichment processes and facilities, Their missiles, both storage and Launch facilities and places of production. Their general Military and Revolutionary guard forces must also be destroyed.
The purpose of this scrap is to destroy Iran’s ability attack Israel including using Hamas and Hezbollah to do that, then against the USA. They have shown they are prepared to intimidate the world using ballistic missiles with the range to reach Diego Garcia in the east and London UK in the west.
North Korea reportedly has missiles that can hit California, New Zealand and Australia. How long will it be before Iran can fire ballistic missiles across the Atlantic and hit Washington and your east coast.
You don’t Like your President. I have in the past worked for two odd ball prime ministers. Sir Robert Muldoon of New Zealand and Margaret Thatcher of the UK. I have watched and studied Donald Trump since he walked down the stairs in 2016. I have a collection of more than 100 books about him and as a result of all that I think i have a good understanding of him. He is not the idiot many people think he Is.
As a member of Congress, Sarah you have a responsibility to the world not just the people of San Diego.
Making the world safer is not reckless. עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי (Am Yisrael Chai)