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Posted on 02/27/2017 4:27:15 AM PST by HomerBohn
President Trump and Iran are inches apart, nose to nose, in a massive staring contest, and Iran just blinked.
After Trump put the terror nation on warning telling them they were “playing with fire,” Iran has seemingly done a complete turnaround from the bravado one its generals displayed earlier in the week.
Reuters is now reporting that Iran is now complying with the terms of the deal it struck with Obama last year and only has roughly half of the stockpile of uranium it is entitled to have.
The terror nation’s heavy water storage is also below its allotted levels, but is far closer to its max than that of the low-enriched uranium levels.
Trump has been adamant that he does not like the deal Obama struck with Iran because it does not benefit the United States in any real way.
Now, Iran knows President Trump is looking for any reason he can to shred the agreement and get a better one in place as soon as he can.
A new deal would likely put more stringent restrictions on Iran, something they do not want to have to bend to.
So, for all the puffing out of the chest of its general earlier this week, it would appear that Iran is not quite ready to “slap us in the face” as the general had hinted.
Both Iran and North Korea have put their toes on the edge of the line since Trump has taken over office, and both of them have backed down when push came to shove. They took their shot and tested the waters, but they have officially found out Trump is definitely NOT all talk and no action.
And believe me, Trump knows the world is watching and looking for a reason to criticize his moves, but thus far, everything he has done has worked to perfection.
The reality is that our “power,” or at least the world’s view of our power, has been severely hurt during the last eight years under Obama. Trump is now doing everything he can to let the globe know the United States still has the biggest stick on the block and while we don’t want to have to use it, we will if necessary.
Iran knows that if they launch, they will be a land of radio active debris in the next 15 minutes with our President at the helm. They light the big match and we will light a bigger one.
Why didn’t President Bush sack that nation instead? It was clearly more dangerous to us and actually committed direct acts of war against us.
And just how can any of Iran’s claims be verified—given the deal Barry gave them?
Yep—if Bush was so itching to go after a bigger fish than just Afghanistan, why not Iran? At least as much involvement and far more dangerous.
I think he thought the casualty rate would have been substantially higher.
Some guy once said “Trust but Verify”...
Name escapes for a moment/ S
A bad rationale—the strategy should have been adapted to mitigate that.
But I fear his leftist detractors may be right, and it may have been a matter of unfinished business for the Bush family.
For a brief shining hour, freeing Iraq from Saddam proliferated the concept of freedom across the Middle East.
Iran was destabilised in a good way: there was an opportunity for the country to be liberated, with just a little help from the US.
But Obama betrayed them and consigned the freedom-fighters to toture, rape and death. Iranian freedom has been a distant dream since then.
But with Trump, who knows?
Afghanistan is on 1 side of Iran, Iraq is on the other. The longer game was to neutralize Iran with a squeeze play, but the rats took the house in 2006, GWB wouldn’t defend himself from the leftist attack dogs, the electorate got swayed and the nomination of McCain made them put Obama in power, we abandoned Iraq, Obama gave the deal to Iran, and here we are.
Low hanging fruit first. Iraq on one side, Afghanistan on the other.
That is true we had them surrounded. We had Iraq, Afgahnistan, Diego Garcia, Bahrain.
Why wouldn’t President Bush defend himself just one time?
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The Bushes were of a NWO mind. They cared not that Hussein was the best friend that Christians and Jews had in the middle east. The plan was to say that Iraq had WMD which they didn’t. The chaos that was created by the Bilderbergers was given to Bush I and Bush II to carry out. It should have been called ‘Operation Middle east chaos.
Merkel and Obama then carried out their assignments.
Beyond our capabilities, frankly. Iran is much larger than Iraq and even with its air force and communications smashed would require a two million man occupation force to pacify.
Reuters is now reporting that Iran is...
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Why not just link the reuters story?
...And just how can any of Iran’s claims be verified—given the deal Barry gave them?...
Aren’t they doing their own verification inspections?
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”
Some in high places suggest that keeping Iraq in power would have kept Iran in check. Perhaps. But it is too late for a “should-have” and even then there was the loose cannon aspect of Saddam Hussain and a few other issues which were considered unacceptable (the Kurdish genocide for one).
And then there is the question of mid east oil dependence and our very own EPA restrictions. Idiocy, actually. Decades of incompetent U.S. leadership in high places and the penchant for globalism and the NWO which took the U.S. to the abyss.
I pray that at some point in the near future America will reach a point of realization just how close we came to demise by design from within.
Certainly we’re not doing them. IIRC the pretense to inspections was a blatant sham.
Why pacify them? Just let ‘em kill each other !
Why not just read what was posted and stop nit-picking?
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