Posted on 03/09/2025 12:27:36 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Fox News is wall to wall with dead-eyed politicians telling you that Iran is a dangerous “sponsor of terror.” Softening up the base for a war. But what exactly does that phrase mean, and how does it apply to the United States? Here’s one measure: over the past twenty years, how many Americans have been killed by Iran on American soil? Try to find that number, and then compare it to the number of Americans killed by drug ODs. Or suicide. Or illegal aliens. Or carjackings, diabetes and the Covid vax. Still think Iran is the greatest threat? How about we focus on our own country for a minute.
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Soleimani’s legacy: The gruesome, advanced IEDs that haunted U.S. troops in Iraq
EFPs killed at least 196 U.S. troops and wounded nearly 900 between 2005 and 2011, defense officials revealed in 2015, and Castner said a high number of amputations throughout the war were the direct result of the weapons.
Iran just attacked author Salman Rushdie on US soil...
And Iran not very long ago was involved in an attempt to bomb a restaurant in the DC area where, had they succeeded, a lot of people would have been killed.
And, there have been assorted Iranian efforts going back to the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
People forget that al Qaeda’s Egyptian boss Ayman al Zawahiri is related to Mullahs in Iran.
I’d start from the other end of the spectrum. How many people have been murdered by Islam? Which countries support Jihad, and to what degree?
Tucker is an entertainer nothing more.
The last known individual to make contact with Mr. Levinson (a retired US official who was abducted by Iran, kept hostage, and was murdered there) was a US born agent of Iran who, in the early 1980s assassinated a former Iranian diplomat in the US before fleeing to Iran where they rewarded him with a nice job with perks. He then served them as a propagandist on Iran TV. He still lives over there, a fugitive from US justice.
I’ve long since ceased listening to this giggling little prick, who’s all about himself. That he should say such nonsense and offer such a spacious argument is hugely disappointing.
Just another nattering nabob of negativity.
> Soleimani’s legacy: The gruesome, advanced IEDs that haunted U.S. troops in Iraq <
I would say the lesson there is that we shouldn’t have been in Iraq in the first place.
“Never get involved in a land war in Asia.”
General Douglas MacArthur
No disrespect meant to the American soldiers involved. HUGE disrespect to that piece of garbage George W. Bush. He decided to start a quite unnecessary and very bloody war.
Aside from hamass, hezbollah, houthis, etc. Iran is not a sponsor of terror.
The Democrat Party is the number one sponsor of terror.
The Democrat Party is the number one sponsor of terror.
Exactly. If we wanted to dispose of Saddam Insane, we should have done it in 1990-1991, during the first gulf war.
Marine barracks, Beirut, under Reagan.
“Death to America!”
the neoCON scum just can’t rest unless there is a foreign war they can grift off of while killing your kids on the other side of the world
Along with the world enslavement forum.
Iran was involved in the USS Cole, and pretty much everything so Qaeda did, along with Syria.
Zarqawi of course ran his smuggling network through Iran.
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