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Is Bolton Steering Trump Into War with Iran?
Townhall.com ^ | May 7, 2019 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 05/07/2019 4:09:57 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Russ
I got the same nonsense from other Freepers back in 2003 when I said the same thing about the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

History has vindicated me on this one. Look how thoroughly repudiated that retarded baboon George W. Bush is right now -- even right here on FreeRepublic where he used to be considered a demi-god.

I am not a Republican. I am a nationalist and a patriot. I won't waste my time with any political candidate who has sold his soul to left-wing globalists.

21 posted on 05/07/2019 4:46:03 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: LeoWindhorse

Iran is long overdue for some payback

They have been taking shots at us for years .
Just little enough to think they can get away with it .
But some of us remember .

VIED’s in Iraq and AFG have killed how many Americans?
And where did they comes from ?

I believe we have a stash of neutron weapons somewhere .
We should daisy chain them across central Iran and all their major population centers .


22 posted on 05/07/2019 4:47:43 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeeClementineKenny

Agreed. Saudi Arabia and Israel would both love or us to take care of this problem.

Only it ended up catastrophic last time and will this time.

Not to mention with the sauds, we’d be helping out a country that has donated BILLIONS to terrorism and likely at the LEAST knew about 9/11 and at the worst, were in some way complicit.

STAY OUT.


23 posted on 05/07/2019 4:48:36 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: Rummyfan

>>>But what if, with just a little push, we could topple the mullahs? Most Iranians would be ecstatic to see them.

We will be greeted as liberators. Where have I heard that before?


24 posted on 05/07/2019 4:51:30 AM PDT by oincobx
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To: Alberta's Child; Pravious; Russ

yeah. stay home. thats the answer. As if Trump is a dictator and can just “make it happen” by just snapping his fingers.

If you are too stupid to realize that Trump has done/is doing/will continue to do everything he can legally do with the resources and congress he has at his disposal, then sure go ahead and stay home and enjoy President Buttigieg or whomever else will rape whats left of the US blind.

BTW, can you recommend someone who you feel WILL DO better then Trump is? I’ll certainly consider giving him my vote. You have anyone in mind?


25 posted on 05/07/2019 4:53:32 AM PDT by Jaysin
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To: Rummyfan
"But what if, with just a little push, we could topple the mullahs? Most Iranians would be ecstatic to see them Go."

Yeah, that was the same line of chit we all heard about Afghanistan.

Eighteen years on and nearly a trillion dollars spent and the same azzhoes who said it the population would be ecstatic to see the Taliban go are still saying that while they mumble and shuffle trying to explain away the fact that more of the Afghan population supports the Taliban now than when we showed up.

On the bright side, annual opium production there is up from about a hundred and fifty tons when we arrived to well over 6,000 tons now and the street price of heroin is so low that dealers are spicing it up with Fentanyl or stepping on it fewer times in order to compete with one another.

26 posted on 05/07/2019 5:00:28 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Jaysin
I don't blame Trump for any failures with the wall or border security. He can't do very much without Congress passing laws that actually fix the problem. The same is true for most trade policies.

I hold Republicans in Congress responsible for those failures (which is just one more reason why I'm not a Republican).

But failures in the area of foreign policy are unforgivable, because Congress has hardly any role at all. In sports jargon, these are what is known as "unforced errors."

27 posted on 05/07/2019 5:04:39 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: oincobx
> We will be greeted as liberators. Where have I heard that before? <

No worries. The boys will be home before Christmas. (Just which Christmas I can't tell you.)


28 posted on 05/07/2019 5:08:05 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Jaysin
According to Axios, Israel had alerted Bolton that an Iranian strike on U.S. interests in Iraq was imminent.

This is so amateurish that it's pathetic.

After all that's unfolded over the last two years here in the U.S. with regard to FISA warrant abuse and domestic surveillance, it's astonishing there any Freepers left who are dumb enough to believe anything that comes out of our national security/intelligence agencies.

29 posted on 05/07/2019 5:09:25 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: Leaning Right

No wonder these quarterly fundraisers never end. It seems like most Freepers with a brain have either left or passed away.


30 posted on 05/07/2019 5:10:24 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: Kaslin

I see the Putin puffers are out in force...lol


31 posted on 05/07/2019 5:11:54 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: Rummyfan

The same thing was said about Iraqis and Saddam, and look what resulted from that. Should the mullahs be overthrown, don’t expect to get a Jeffersonian Republic in its place.


32 posted on 05/07/2019 5:14:06 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Alberta's Child

He will have 400 miles of wall built by next year and there will be no war in Iran. Course the NeverTrumpers have to NeverTrump.


33 posted on 05/07/2019 5:14:33 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: bray
Note the importance of the first word in my statement ...

IF we get to November 2020 ...

34 posted on 05/07/2019 5:17:35 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: Kaslin

The threat from Iran to Americans home and abroad is real, but the best way to defeat them is to diminish the value of what they suck out of the ground. Trump is doing that.

If that were our only threat to them, though, they’d dramatically accelerate their campaign of violence while they had the chance, and direct it against the “Big Satan”. Encourage the US to replace Orange Man with someone more Iran-friendly. A credible military threat would put a stop to that. That’s all I see Pompeo presenting here, not “warmongering”.


35 posted on 05/07/2019 5:18:48 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-)
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To: Alberta's Child

Foreign policy decisions like this (Iran) one are often difficult calls.

Because what if this is another Rhineland moment? In 1936 Hitler marched into the demilitarized Rhineland. If the Allies would have acted then, Hitler would have been toppled. And maybe then there would have been no WW II.

But for neocons like Bolton, EVERY moment is a Rhineland moment. Gotta kill a few people (or a few hundred thousand people). Gotta send a message!

Any time Bolton says “yes”, I say “no”.


36 posted on 05/07/2019 5:19:25 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Kaslin

Some odd stuff going on:

Iranian general defects.
Gaza launches attack on Israel.
Rocketman meets with Putin.
We go on heightened alert on Iran.
Rocketman shoots off missile.
China talks suffer a setback.
Pompeo cancels meeting with Merkel.

Looks like a show meant for the masses to consume.


37 posted on 05/07/2019 5:20:28 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Alberta's Child

No, I noticed your threat because Trump has done nothing in your books. He has done more than any President since Reagan and in many ways more against tougher opposition, but not enough for you.


38 posted on 05/07/2019 5:20:36 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Kaslin

It is bizarre how in about a week’s time, there has been talk of moving military assets to two oil rich nations, because we apparently want war. If any other country was as militarily involved in so many countries around the world, we would be horrified. This country went haywire at some point, long ago.


39 posted on 05/07/2019 5:21:16 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Leaning Right
Good post.

If John Bolton was mildly retarded and had no self-respect, he'd be Max Boot.

40 posted on 05/07/2019 5:24:39 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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