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The West may now have no option but to attack Iran
The Telegraph (London) ^ | December 28, 2023 | John Bolton

Posted on 12/29/2023 3:59:55 AM PST by Jim Noble

Houthi attacks on commercial shipping and US Navy vessels in the Red Sea threaten the global economy, endangering the vital Suez Canal trade route. As if 14 such attacks in the past month, and against Israel directly, were not enough, Iran has now joined the fray...

This marks the first time since October 7 that Washington has directly blamed Iran...

Just after Christmas, however, Iran committed the classic “Washington gaffe” – i.e., telling the truth accidentally – when the Revolutionary Guard Corps reportedly described Hamas’s barbaric assault as “one of the acts of revenge for the assassination of General [Qassem] Soleimani by the US and the Zionists”. Hamas immediately denied the linkage, no more credibly than the Revolutionary Guard Corps’ subsequent effort to walk back its revealing “revenge” declaration...

The Biden administration, much of the media, and Iran’s propagandists will probably continue ignoring the reality of who is calling the shots in this conflict. But the evidence is growing inexorably that October 7 was intended to draw Jewish blood to implement Soleimani’s “ring of fire” strategy, with Iran pressing Israel on multiple fronts, directing operations via terrorists and state actors it has armed, trained, and financed...

It has been clear for years that overthrowing the mullahs, , is central to decreasing insecurity throughout the Middle East. Arab funding of terrorist actions against Israel is hard to find today, especially as full, open diplomatic relations with Jerusalem continue to expand. If Iran’s line of credit to the likes of Hamas, Hizbollah, the Houthis, and other barbarians disappears, their ability to survive except in remote Afghan encampments will palpably decrease...

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: Lurker

You’re a Neocon proxy, running interference for the Lindsey Graham-wing of the Republican Party from the comfort of your sofa.


101 posted on 12/30/2023 12:39:00 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

“You’re a Neocon proxy..”

You support Hamas from some run down bar in Dublin.

L


102 posted on 12/30/2023 12:54:56 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Lurker
Like I said, Iran never did anything to me, or most Americans.

Now slip on those floppy Clown shoes and red nose. I want entertainment!

103 posted on 12/30/2023 1:03:35 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

“Like I said, Iran never did anything to me…”

“Like I said, Germany never did anything to me.” Jon Preston’s grandfather in 1940.

L


104 posted on 12/30/2023 2:27:19 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Lurker

Is it true you and the Mrs. eat squirrel?


105 posted on 12/30/2023 2:29:32 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Lurker
Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah were and are Iranian proxies

Links please.

106 posted on 12/30/2023 2:30:54 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Here you go, Adolph.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11330/iran-hamas-hezbollah

https://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/950500.htm

There’s plenty more where that came from.

Now don’t you have a car bomb to put together?

L


107 posted on 12/30/2023 2:50:18 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Jim Noble

If you want Iran taken care of, turn Israel loose on them - no repercussions.


108 posted on 12/30/2023 2:55:40 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Lurker
The Gatestone Institute is a Robert Kagen effort.

Another man you look up to?


109 posted on 12/30/2023 3:55:13 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

The links between Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Iran are well documented even if you’re not a fan of the source.

Then there’s the little matter of Iran holding Americans hostage for a year and a half not all that long ago, the use if the Iranian embassy in London to murder British civilians, the Iranian made EFPs that killed or maimed dozens if not hundreds of American troops in Iraq.

So you go right ahead and keep telling yourself they’re not involved up to their necks in hatred of the entire West.

Grown ups know better.

Now, why don’t you find a pub full of Brits to blow up. That’s all you Irish are good for anymore. Oh, that and letting third world savages overrun what’s left of your country and stab schoolgirls.

L


110 posted on 12/30/2023 4:01:50 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: JonPreston

Don’t like the information so impugne the source. Thats what 5th graders use for logic.

Try again, Skippy.

L


111 posted on 12/30/2023 4:18:44 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Lurker
The links between Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Iran are well documented even if you’re not a fan of the source.

We all have seen your sources pushing perpetual war in Vietnam, Afghanistan, now with Ukraine. Neocons overpromise, overspend and oversell, not to mention your proxy wars all fail. If you have an example of a post WWII success, please post the detail and be prepared to defend. And please for the love of god stop embellishing your background. No one believes you.

112 posted on 12/30/2023 4:19:26 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

“If you have an example of a post WWII success.”

Japan, Germany, and Italy.

“And please for the love of god stop embellishing your background.”

You post your DD-214 and I’ll post mine.

That’s fair.

L


113 posted on 12/30/2023 4:22:07 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Lurker
post WWII

Reading comprehension difficult?

114 posted on 12/30/2023 4:25:43 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Lurker
Dinner tonight?


115 posted on 12/30/2023 4:26:46 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Lurker

Your government forms don’t impress anyone with an IQ above room temperature.


116 posted on 12/30/2023 4:28:34 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

We formed stable democratic governments post WWII in Japan, Germany, and Italy.

L


117 posted on 12/30/2023 4:48:01 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Lurker
lol, while our own country deteriorated.

hey, what's this about?

Farmer Plans to Serve Squirrel Burgers at Festival

08/26/2023 3:34:48 PM PDT · 9 of 64
Lurker to nickcarraway

My grandma used to make a mighty tasty squirrel stew. I inherited the cast iron pan she used to make it. It’s sitting on my stove right now.

P


118 posted on 12/30/2023 4:51:16 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

“Your government forms don’t impress anyone with an IQ above room temperature.”

Then your mom was pretty dumb.

And your lack of any service to your country speaks volumes about you.

L


119 posted on 12/30/2023 5:00:11 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Lurker

120 posted on 12/30/2023 5:01:39 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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