Posted on 06/18/2025 9:16:05 PM PDT by RandFan
@RandPaul
Let me be totally clear: I will not vote to send one American soldier to Iran. Not one.
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Eventually, we would need to occupy the ruins. I mean, just bombing the crap out of them isn’t exactly going to fix anything. That only softens up the target.
Which is a plenty good reason not to bomb the crap out of them.
I’m really quite tired of all this straw man virtue signaling. Is there a single shred of evidence that anyone in the Trump administration, much less Trump himself, is even vaguely considering sending soldiers to Iran? All this ridiculous fearmongering about what’s actually being discussed, a potential bombing run, almost seems deliberately designed to turn Trump supporters against him based on fantasy nonsense that has nothing to do with reality.
And RandFan, do you really think constantly spamming the board with the exact same sorts of articles and comments is convincing anyone new of your views?
Exactly. If there is a bombing run to drop the bunker-buster on Fordnow to eliminate nukes, there won't be any vote ahead of time. So...it's just a grandstanding statement.
Somebody should ask Paul what he will do when Iran gets the bomb — and starts naming American cities that they will nuke if America still supports Israel.
No, "we" wouldn't need to physically occupy anything. The ONLY thing for which U.S. forces might be needed is to drop the bunker buster, and that's because it can only be carried by a plane the Israelis don't have.
So IF any ground occupation is needed, it would be by Israelis or others. No U.S. troops required. Truth is, no occupation forces may be needed or even possible if the site is irradiated.
“Crazy Rand is crazy like his dad”
I drove Ron Paul to many of his campaign events in the late 70’s. He was not and is not “crazy”. He was saying the same exact things then as he has over and over until today. He talked about the Federal Reserve a lot.
Oddly enough, a few years later I’d have the opportunity to meet and get to know a well-known Democrat, Barbara Jordan. She was maybe one of the smartest people I’ve ever met. I don’t think she would be a Democrat today, she really didn’t like illegals coming into the country. I always chuckled at the recently dead Shelia Jackson-Lee when she tried to speak like Barbara Jordan. Shelia was as fake as Jasmine Crockett is today. Shelia and a local Houston fellow named Rodney Ellis put together a voter fraud system that still exists today and, in a way, IMO seemed to be the blueprint for the stolen election of 2020.
Look at his record on tariffs. He has been totally bought. Trust nothing from him.
As to troops in Iran, only in a victory parade to the site where we re-open the EMbassy.
That’s fine Rand as I don’t think Trump is planning on it any.
Trump has been saying there would be no soldiers sent there almost daily.
Why is Rand running to a microphone pretending he's saying something new and relevant?
Having discovered you never engage with somebody who has burst your Rand worship bubble, what say you about his agreeing with Trump and why is Rand doing this? Can you answer that one?
The answer ain't pretty sir, go ahead and defend his grandstanding.
I'll wait for the expected crickets from you.
Rand is right, we should NOT put American boots on the ground. However, we should use our bunker-buster bombs so that Israeli commandos can go in and make sure the site is neutralized.
Nope. Just more clown posturing. I use to laugh at how fundamentally stupid Democrats were mindlessly worshiping the meaningless babble that came out of their political idols mouths.
I have seen the last 5 months that “Conservatives” have the same mindless adoration of blowhard GOP Congresscriters who bombastically spew meaningless slogans and talking point while never doing anything of any real value in DC.
Drop the bomb, walk away, and watch the next Jihadi regime rise out of the rubble to strike again in 50 years.
What is this "die for Israel" crap?
Firstly, who has proposed to put soldiers in Iran?
Secondly, a nuclear armed Iran is a major threat to us, and that is separate thing from what it is to Israel.
I have been saying we need to stomp Iran since 1979, and I have never changed my mind about this.
When I heard those fanatics were building nukes, I was all the more adamant that we stop them.
*WE* are the first target of Lunatic Religious fanatics in the world.
Well then he's an idiot. We *NEED* to blow the sh*t out of Iran's nuke program. The threat it posses to *US* as well as everyone else, makes it a necessity.
I was advocating blowing the sh*t out of Iran's nuke program back in the 1990s when Bastard Clinton was letting them build it!
It was the right thing to do then, and it is still the right thing to do now.
I predicted what happened in Iraq pretty accurately. And I did it *BEFORE* they implemented Paul Bremmer's stupid ideas.
Was pretty predictable to me.
We have all these officers in "war college" studying history, yet not a one of them seemed to be able to get the message through to Bremmer that what he had planned would become an absolute disaster.
Were our officer's corps that stupid, or did they object and were ignored?
I still don't know.
“Crazy Rand is crazy like his dad”
But I repeat myself ... When he goes away many will cheer.
Wasn’t talking about Rand but I’m not a big fan of his.
He will get 5 votes.
BS
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