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Steve Bannon says we're getting "bald face lies" right NOW like Iraq
X ^ | June 21 | Steve Bannon

Posted on 06/21/2025 12:51:04 PM PDT by RandFan

@gc22gc

BANNON: Iraq wasn’t a failure of intelligence. It wasn’t an honest mistake. It was a bald-faced lie. You were lied to. President Trump told the world that. Told the Bushes that. That’s one of the reasons he’s President of the U.S. And we’re getting bald-faced lies right now.

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To: Williams

I guess Air Baghdad them
Of course eventually it’ll be poor Iran

It’s complicated

Iran is fairly isolated and weakened but not out

I likely would kill Khameni he seems obstinate

Israel can do this themselves not sure what’s holding them up

Btw I’m no expert

Yes I agree indig upheaval unlike but when it happens it’s often a surprise like Romania


41 posted on 06/21/2025 1:33:12 PM PDT by wardaddy ( The Blob must be bled dry)
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To: RandFan; Mr. Mojo; Mr Rogers; fidelis; SaxxonWoods; CodeToad

This comment may be a bit off the subject, but I am guessing everyone is talking about possession of WMD. However, possession was irrelevant to invading Iraq. The ceasefire ended, and the war begun in 1991 was resumed in 2003, because Hussein behaved in material breach of international obligations as reaffirmed with Resolution 1441. Nowhere in Congressional resolutions of 1991, 1998 and 2002, or UN Resolutions 678, 687 and 1441 can one see possession of stockpiles of WMD as reasons for confronting him with military action. Emerging behavior in terms of threats, evasion, intimidation, and continuing past actions, not possession, was always the key. He was to unconditionally accept destruction or removal of all inventories and programs for WMD and for all missiles over 150-kilometre range. He was enjoined from committing, supporting, or providing safe haven for international terrorism.

The Security Council approved Resolution 687, incorporated 678 and 19 previous resolutions without amendment, and offered Hussein a conditional, unilateral ceasefire in 1991. The resolution’s key words were to guarantee, reaffirm, accept, submit, declare, yield, forgo, agree, inform, comply, and cooperate. None of these resolutions were cobbled together like a middle schooler’s term paper. Diplomats and politicians laboriously parsed each phrase for clear focus on actions instead of possessions; behaviors, not stockpiles.


42 posted on 06/21/2025 1:33:59 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: RandFan; Mariner
You’re buying into the propaganda

What propaganda?
43 posted on 06/21/2025 1:34:05 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: RandFan
He is right.

Netanyahu has been ranting about Iran being on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon for 30 years.

Did he launch this war to shore up his sagging approval rating in hopes he'd drag us into it?

That has put Trump in a very difficult position.

44 posted on 06/21/2025 1:35:10 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: RandFan
We didn't get lies even about Iraq.

We got bad intel because our politicized intel agencies tell the President what he wants to hear.

A few years before, the intel agencies told Clinton Iraq was not a threat. After 9/11, they told Bush it was.

And they weren't lying: what they were concealing was that they didn't know, just like they didn't put the pieces together before 9/11 or before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The intel agencies were gutted after the Dem media coup against Nixon and the Church Committee hearings afterwards. Before that they had a clear mandate to focus on Communist threats both abroad and at home. Afterwards they learned that minding the political interests of the powers that be, especially the domestic threat and corruption of the Dem's leftism, was the key to a long and prosperous career.

We have good sigint regarding immanent military threats. We have virtually non-existent humint because of leaks and moles and virtually no capability to track slow-moving long-term clandestine threats.

45 posted on 06/21/2025 1:37:03 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Retain Mike; Alberta's Child

You’ve copied a lot of Freepers Mike and took the time to write that post so deserve a reply..

What I will say is at least GWB went to Congress .Trump may not even bother doing this. Which makes it even worse in my eyes.


46 posted on 06/21/2025 1:37:29 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: CodeToad
What do you say about a leader of country that has been using fear for 30 years to manipulate his country's and world opinion?

Netanyahu has been claiming Iran has been on the verge of getting nukes for that long.

I have no problem with Israel going to war against Iran. But, that's its decision and we shouldn't be dragged into it.

47 posted on 06/21/2025 1:38:05 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: CodeToad

There was no good reason to go into Iraq for a second time.


48 posted on 06/21/2025 1:38:33 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Mr Rogers
Nope. That is horseshit. I had access to classified info back then. SOME of it was mistaken, but it was not “a bald-faced lie.”

Syria's Chemical Weapons Came From Saddam's Iraq

Pentagon announces 500 tons of Uranium shipped from Iraq to Canada

500 tons of uranium shipped from Iraq, Pentagon says

49 posted on 06/21/2025 1:39:06 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Bookshelf
And, do you remember the many times over the past 30 years Netanyahu has claimed Iran was on the verge of getting nukes?

He's like the boy that cries wolf.

50 posted on 06/21/2025 1:39:33 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

What Israel has been saying for 30 years is somewhat irrelevant to the reality of an extensive Iranian nuclear program which is not even a secret at this point.


51 posted on 06/21/2025 1:41:34 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Retain Mike
The ceasefire ended, and the war begun in 1991 was resumed in 2003, because Hussein behaved in material breach of international obligations as reaffirmed with Resolution 1441.

This is meaningless. Some of us still wonder if the U.S. was on the wrong side in 1991.

The mere thought of sending several hundred thousand U.S. troops to some dump in the Middle East to defend one royal family (Saudi Arabia) and restore another one to their throne (Kuwait) would have been enough to make George Washington vomit.

52 posted on 06/21/2025 1:42:59 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: RandFan

“And what is that?”

Really? Is something so simple it requires a detailed explanation?

They have sworn our destruction, for one. Within a year or two they would have a missile that could deliver over that distance. They could put bombs on ships and put them in any port in the world, to include a US port or two.

They would also be in an unassailable position to close the Persian Gulf, Red Sea/Suez AND the Bosphorus for whatever weirdo reason those Jihadis can come up with. They have missiles to reach those targets NOW.


53 posted on 06/21/2025 1:43:20 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Pentagon announces 500 tons of Uranium shipped from Iraq to Canada.

When do the B-2 bombers head off to bomb Ottawa?

54 posted on 06/21/2025 1:43:41 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: Williams; All
The same stupid Boomers are buying the same stupid lies as in 2002-2003.

At least some of us who were fooled the first time have enough pattern recognition to learn from our mistake.

Iran has built their own Cheyenne Mountain, and it won't be destroyed by air attack.

https://www.iflscience.com/americas-cheyenne-mountain-complex-can-withstand-a-30-megaton-nuclear-bomb-73393

But when the bombing attack fails, Team Israel is going to say we must attack on the ground.

55 posted on 06/21/2025 1:45:08 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (Anschluss now !)
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To: Williams
It's completely irrelevant that Netanyahu has been wrong for 30 years>?

That is as stupid as saying the climate change propagandists have been wrong for 30 years and man is still causing the plane to warm.

You're ridiculous.

56 posted on 06/21/2025 1:45:09 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Williams

“That’s kind of the problem with all of the isolationists you want your little ideological dream world to govern everything meanwhile there’s a real world out there and it’s not friendly.”

Easy for you to shoot your big mouth off; anonymously hiding on the internet. I guarantee you won’t put your own fundament on the line. Yep, easy to talk big when your butt isn’t at risk. It’s easy to spend the lives of others.


57 posted on 06/21/2025 1:46:01 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Alberta's Child
The mere thought of sending several hundred thousand U.S. troops to some dump in the Middle East to defend one royal family (Saudi Arabia) and restore another one to their throne (Kuwait) would have been enough to make George Washington vomit.

You mean the same nascent United States that accepted help from a foriegn country, France, that was ultimately responsible for our victory over Great Britain?
58 posted on 06/21/2025 1:46:05 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: RandFan

I think he means BOLD face lies. Like when he calls cavalry “Calvary”.


59 posted on 06/21/2025 1:49:37 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Williams; Kazan

“What Israel has been saying for 30 years is somewhat irrelevant to the reality of an extensive Iranian nuclear program”

This is not, and never has been about “supporting Israel”.

This is about a real, legitimate US interest in ensuring Iran doesn’t get the bomb. Without regard to what Israel does, or doesn’t do.


60 posted on 06/21/2025 1:50:02 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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