Obviously, the Shah was pro-American but he was able to hold on until 1979. So they've been anti-American for the past 50 years.
Yeah it wasn't a good idea.
Posted on 03/25/2026 12:18:25 PM PDT by RandFan
@RepNancyMace
Just walked out of a House Armed Services briefing on Iran. Let me repeat: I will not support troops on the ground in Iran, even more so after this briefing.
@RepNancyMace
The justifications presented to the American public for the war in Iran were not the same military objectives we were briefed on today in the House Armed Services Committee. This gap is deeply troubling. The longer this war continues, the faster it will lose the support of Congress and the American people.
@RepNancyMace
Washington’s war machine is hard at work. They are try to drag us into Iran to make it another Iraq. We can’t let them.
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I can understand her feelings if she thinks the administration is not being forthcoming, but she is not paid, nor was she elected to walk out. I can also appreciate how the administration may be concerned about security, Trump may not want to show all his cards right now just so they can be leaked to the press.
Exactly.
Sounds like she left her Big Girl panties at home.
Not a good look for someone wanting to become Governor
God for her. She’s MAGA.
Short sighted?
Ruled by emotion?
Turning into another MTG over-ego with self importance ( in the news every day now it seems)
Iran
Like it of not….Once we broke it, we bought it and this must be brought to a decisive victory. Irans military capabilities will never improve now during this campaign. While not eradicated they are degraded further each day. Their willingness to strike wildly and promise death to millions to save some ayatollah repressive theocracy with demonstrated expansionism thru terror….shows why they must NEVER get WMD.
Nor frankly to run a globally vital maritime logistic chokepoint by charging tolls to fund their terrorist repressive MALE ONLY world plan.
Rebuilding the middle east….with Arab and Israeli partners….It is a once in a generation opportunity with a team of US leaders with courage to look far beyond getting themselves reelected.
I wouldn’t let her walk my dog much less serve in Congress.
I suspect that no president has ever been able to tell Congress everything because leaks can occur accidentally, as well as deliberately. With the current Congress, plenty of the politicians would gladly trade some info for donations.
Time of the month for Ms Mace?
If there is such a wide gap then I think Mace would be right to make that known to the extent it does not mean revealing classified information.
Looking to fill MTG’s role I see.
Because if what she posted is accurate then we are being lied to.
Bull crap! Objecting to putting “boots on the ground” in Iran when there is conflicting reasons being given for doing so is not lending aid and comfort to the enemy. It is putting U.S. military lives first.
At one time it would be. But not anymore. The lust for cannon fodder displayed by so many posters here sickens me no end.
Try reading "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" by Tim Wiener. You'll think differently.
CIA Director George Tenet told the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 17, 2002: "Iraq provided al Qaeda with various kinds of training--combat, bomb-making, and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear." He based that statement on the confessions of a single source--Ibn al-Shakh al-Libi, a fringe player who had been beaten, stuffed in a two foot square box for 17 hours, and threatened with prolonged torture. The prisoner had recanted after the threat of torture had receded.
James L. Pavitt said "We did not have many Iraqi sources" on June 21, 2004. The best source the CIA had was provided by the French Intelligence Service, which had cultivated Naji Sabri, Iraq's foreign minister, as its agent. Sabri said that Saddam did not have an active nuclear or biological weapons program. Evidently his reporting was rejected by the CIA.
By the way, Pavitt resigned from the CIA on July 12, 2004, a day after George Tenet.
Whatever info the CIA received, they chose to believe the worst, and reject the truth, something they've been doing since 1947 when the agency came into being.
Colonel Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell's top military assistant. He said: "I can still hear George Tenet telling me, and telling my boss in the bowels of the CIA that the intelligence was rock solid. I sat in the room looking into his eyes, as did the Secretary of State, and heard it with the firmness that only George Tenet could give it...George Tenet assuring Colin Powell that the information he was presenting at the U.N. was ironclad, only to have that same individual call the Secretary on more than one occasion in the ensuing months after the presentation and tell him that central pillars of his presentation were indeed false."
The CIA has lied to every President since it began, and yes, likely lied to Obama and of course Biden. I won't feel sorry for any of them at the CIA if Trump finds out they've lied to him on this.
There is a consistent truth in life that I know will not waiver and that is “Governments lie.” So taking that as a default position is just common sense.
The only reason they conducted that coup was because Britain asked them to. The Prime Minister of Iran was going to nationalize the oil business, because Iran had been ripped off by Britain for years, so he was ending Britain's participation. Britain didn't have the means to conduct the coup themselves, so they contacted the CIA. The 1953 coup was done with money and propaganda.
Obviously, the Shah was pro-American but he was able to hold on until 1979. So they've been anti-American for the past 50 years.
Yeah it wasn't a good idea.
Who financed her campaign? Venezuela?
Ditto what you said. Most of the recently “retired” CIA clowns are now far-left, female politicians and Trump hating, screaming banshees.
You nailed it…our representatives are up for sale and China, Iran and Israel have used that effectively…plus others.
The US created a theocracy in Iran that is the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism. It is the responsibility of the US to fix that.
I do not know if Trump can pull this off, but if he does, the Mideast peace that will result will put him in the history books forever.
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