Posted on 06/15/2019 8:40:16 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas slammed former top Obama adviser Ben Rhodes for questioning U.S. claims that Iran attacked oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz and downplayed the threat from the regime.
Rhodes, a leading figure within the Obama administration who pushed for the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, suggested the U.S. official assessment of the tanker attacks shouldnt be taken for granted, saying only an international investigation can get to the bottom of the incident.
This definitely feels like the kind of incident where you'd want an international investigation to establish what happened. Huge risk of escalation, Rhodes said in a tweet.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
But are there warmongers in both parties who would try to push Trump into a war? Absolutely.
And what would Iran gain by attacking tankers? Maybe Russia set this in motion to see what Iran could get away with?
Maybe somebody wants oil prices to rise (although this affects the US less than the rest of the world)?
Arm the tankers with anti-aircraft guns and laser guided ship to water missles?
Lotta shady **** here.
Thomas E. Ricks wrote a devastating piece about this way-out-of-his-league, wholly unqualified Ophonybama FRaud at https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/28/a-stunning-profile-of-ben-rhodes-the-asshole-who-is-the-presidents-foreign-policy-guru-4/
It is worth a read!
Here is a very brief taste: . . . he comes off like an overweening little schmuck.
“And youre not really a trusted source to weigh in on Iran...
You sold the public the falsehood of a moderating Iranian regime - using your media echo chamber (your words)- & ignoring the true danger Iran presents in the region.”
Good for him !
I despise Rhodes.
I hate to tell Crenshaw most of us have doubts.
There's no need to make excuses for their acts with oil prices and more Russia shit.
Who cares the reason or people behind it.
IRAN DID IT.
After we were fooled about Iraqi WMDs, leading to thousands of dead US servicemen men and women, and even more amputations and brain damage, only sheeple dont bring some skepticism when intelligence reports suggest its time for another war
You can be a show me Missouri skeptic, or you can be a sheeple. Im the former. Im not going to get burned again
We have FReepers who believe it is a Trump False Flag effort.
I hate to tell Crenshaw most of us have doubts
Why do you hate to tell him? He needs to hear from people - Republicans, conservatives - who refuse to be burned again after the Iraq WMD debacle
We have FReepers who believe it is a Trump False Flag effort.
Trump can make mistakes. He believed the Jussie Smollett false flag story to begin with
Many Freepers remember the nonexistent WMDs in Iraq, and many know people who were killed or lost legs or arms , or their mental health, in our war to preempt those WMDs. Trump even said it was a war based on lies
I wont be a sheeple this time
Most of us?
If there were WMDs in Iraq - despite Bush and Cheney both saying there werent - why didnt Saddam use them to protect his regime and his life?
If he wasnt going to use them to keep himself alive and his family in power, they were no threat to anyone even if they did exist - which they didnt. Certainly didnt justify our disastrous invasion and $7 trillion down the drain
The Obama administration was spectacularly mentally retarded.
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Reasons we went to war with Iraq.
This probably doesn't count but... the 600,000+ people Saddam had killed
No, he didnt.
He knew Trump supporters dont molest gays in the middle of a snowstorm in downtown Chicago while wearing Trump hats.
Get your head out.
Dont bother. They believe what they believe because they think that if they use those weapons of mass killing, as long its not us here in the USA, it doesnt matter.
They were there, ALL OVER THE GD PLACE. The problem was is that most of the weapons were either taken out of country, or left to become unstable.
If the conduct of the DOJ and the U.S. intelligence agencies over the last 3 years has taught us anything, its that we shouldnt trust a single thing our government tells us about anything.
No, he didnt
Yes he did. He tweeted condolences to Smollett when the story broke. Google it, mr ignorant
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