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Ambassador Mike Huckabee Joked About “Dodging Iranian Missiles,” Doing the “Shelter Shuffle”

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The day after Donald Trump announced on February 28 that the U.S., along with Israel, had begun to attack Iran with a massive bombing campaign — and before American service members were killed and wounded in the conflict — Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said he was “proud” of the President for taking action against a regime that has held America in contempt for nearly half a century.

Sharing the video below, Huckabee wrote: “This has been our day. All day—sirens & we do the ‘shelter shuffle’. But there is something worse than dodging Iranian missiles & that is having Iran scream ‘Death to America’ for 47 years. ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ is saying “Enough!” I’m proud of our ⁦@POTUS⁩!”

Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, a visiting assistant professor of Israel studies at Northwestern University, replied to Huckabee’s post: “When this is over, you and @DavidM_Friedman will have to get the band back together with the new blues hit ‘the shelter shuffle.’”

[Note: David Friedman, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel during the first Trump administration who also said Trump “made the right call” to attack, has frequently performed with Huckabee as a musical duo/band in Jerusalem. They are both guitarists.]

The lightheartedness and “shelter shuffle” mentions have ebbed since the early days of bombing two weeks ago, as fighting across the region continues with Iran launching drone and missile attacks against Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and other neighboring Arab states that host U.S. troops. The Pentagon has reported seven U.S. service members have been killed and 140 wounded. The U.S. and Israel have continued to bomb Tehran and other Iranian sites, with Trump saying almost simultaneously that the war is “very complete, pretty much” and that “we’re going to go further.”

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Two weeks into the bombing, Huckabee is presumably still doing the shuffle, but is also now busier tweeting about trying to enable safe passage out of the expanding war zone for Americans caught unawares by Trump’s surprise attack. Today he shared the American Embassy info below.

Huckabee still turns to posts about music, as seen below on March 8, though there is no mention of dancing — instead he reveals he finds solace in 1970s rock music when he needs a break “in between missile alerts, evac missions out of Israel, & classified intel briefings.”

While agreeing that the world would be safer if the Iranian regime were removed, several members of Congress including U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), and U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), called the U.S. attack “illegal” because “the act of war was unauthorized by Congress.”

That belief has attracted more followers in the ensuing weeks, though not quite enough to pass bills to constrain the President from prosecuting the war, which failed only narrowly in Congress.

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Two weeks into the bombing campaign — with the Trump administration offering shifting reasons for the attacks and little in the way of end goals — support for the war among Americans has never surpassed 50%, and increasingly its price tag has become a concern even for many conservative Trump supporters.

Some lawmakers, like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), have asserted the war will be costly but is the “best money ever spent.” Graham was commenting on a purported $1 billion a day military outlay, which turned out to be a very low estimate. The Pentagon has since revealed that the first six days of the war cost the Defense Department approximately $11.3 billion. The surging price of oil, economic havoc, and depletion of the U.S. weapons supply are other major concerns.

While a few others responded to Huckabee’s early video with lighthearted musical references of their own, many more responded with news of one of the early horrors of the war — a strike on a girls school in Iran. At the time, AP reported: “The death toll from a strike that hit a school in southern Iran has risen to 85 people, an official says on Iranian state TV.”

The responsibility for the missile that killed the schoolgirls was at first shrouded in the so-called fog of war, where facts are hard to come by. Since then, the New York Times reports, “an ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings.” The same article states: “Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children.”


Ambassador Huckabee has also shared some of the realities of the war, which he advises is not for spectators, writing: “An intercepted missile spreads shrapnel over a 2-3 mile area with some pieces being the size of a Buick. They come in at Mach 5. It’s why it’s not smart to stay outside & ‘watch.’ A missile is size of 18 wheel truck.”

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