Posted on 06/21/2025 12:51:04 PM PDT by RandFan
Bannon is completely wrong.
Iran is at war with the U.S. as it has been since 1979.
We are compelled by the radical left and libertarian fools to simply endlessly take the killing and re imagine a world where we caused the killing of our own.
It’s never the enemy’s fault. It’s only and always the War Machine
Nonsense.
No, I don’t think so. President Trump said he knows where the Ayatollah is.
When they learn how to play hockey.
My point was to clarify what was said. I wasn’t interpreting it.
How do you know about anyone’s drinking habits?
No, the only meaningful documents are the UN resolutions and confirming Congressional actions, The UN selected the US president as their commander in chief.
Bannon is right. Gabbard was right. Iran isn’t any closer to have nukes than it was 5 years ago. Trump has drunk the Israeli’s kool-aid.
We understand the Bush Administration’s mistake claiming Iraq’s development of a nuke. We were using faulty sources of intelligence. Rather than take a chance the information was wrong, we acted in case it was an urgent situation.
As far as the Iran situation, Israel has been telling us that the nukes were weeks away from completion since 1990. That is like the tale of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” We can understand from our experience with Iraq how information can be wrong. However, now we have sophisticated spy satellite technology that can peer into the most sensitive information. Secrecy demands can’t know the nature of that technology; we must understand that loose lips sink ships.
Between 1994 and 2002, I spent nearly half of my time deployed to the Middle East. I literally lost track of how many times I went. We were enforcing the no-fly zones. Shot at (badly) many times.
No idea of what good we did, apart from making it obvious to Iraq that we could make them pay if they got too aggressive. But Iraq was not an innocent party.
MY THEORY - not based on anything classified, just a lot of experience with lying Arabs and knowing something about how things get distorted in Arab dictatorships - is that the lower-level people WERE telling Saddam they were making progress toward nukes. And that Saddam believed them and so did we!
Iraq was a serious threat until we took him out. Iran is probably the same situation.
We’re not being asked to fight Israel’s fight. They are fighting OURS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones_conflict
I have heard that from a number of people people that I trust who claim to know him. They say its one of the reasons he was pushed out the door of the first Trump administration and currently kept at arms length now. Yes they could be wrong but I don’t think they are lying. Maybe misinformed, misinterpreting what they know but again I don’t think they are lying. He has said and done some odd things in the past that makes one consider the possibility.
Uh, no. Try 1953.
Crazy that you even have to explain that.
My days as a self-identified Republican ended the moment that globalist turd George Bush Sr. announced that the U.S. had an obligation to use military resources to enforce United Nations directives.
'Eff that.
When I do go through the explanation, I never get a reply lol
People who claim to know him? Ok. Well, even if true, I’m not sure what it has to do with his or anyone’s political opinion. And, if he is at arms length, as you say, why was he having lunch at the WH the other day?
Steve might wanna ask the Iranian government why are they enriching all this uranium then
Then I hope it was false or he’s cleaned up his act.
If lower level people were telling Saddam there were WMDS when there were not and we believed through as well, then that is a huge problem. We have ways to ascertain these truths number one, number two, why would we believe low level Iraqis. This is just stupid.
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