https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-10-2026
"Today, administration officials gave a classified briefing to the Senate Armed
Services Committee about the war in Iran. Democrats who spoke to the press
afterward appeared to be furious.
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) told reporters he was coming out of the
briefing “as dissatisfied and angry, frankly, as I have from any past briefing
in my 15 years in the Senate. I am left with more questions than answers,
especially about the cost of the war. My questions have been unanswered. And I
will demand answers because the American people deserve to know.”
“I am most concerned about the threat to American lives, of potentially
deploying our sons and daughters on the ground in Iran. We seem to be on a path
toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran…and there is also, as
disturbingly as anything else, the specter of active Russian aid to Iran,
putting in danger American lives. Literally, Russia seems to be aiding our
enemy, actively and intensively, with intelligence and perhaps with other
means, and China, also, may be assisting Iran.”
“So, the American people deserve to know much more than this administration has
told them about the cost of the war, the danger to our sons and daughters in
uniform, and the potential for further escalation and widening of this war, a
war of choice made by this president, not chosen by the American people, with
potentially huge consequences to American lives.”
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) noted on social media that the administration
appears to have no goals for the war except continued bombing, and no plan for
reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
