DRAMA: Rep. Nancy Mace "walks out" of Congressional briefing on war with Iran

X ^ | March 25 | Rep. Mace

[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.

[CodeToad]

Childish little girl.

[Angelino97]

This is whom she has always been from the very first. Like an understudy to Nikki Haley.

Wrong.

Mace has taken a non-interventionist America First stance.

Neocon Nikki would have pushed for war even sooner than Trump.

[DiogenesLamp]

I’m holding judgement for now. I just hope this action isn’t depending on the CIA for its intelligence, because the CIA hasn’t been right about one thing since it was organized in 1947.

I think they did a good job putting the Shah in power in the early 1950s, but other than that, I can't think of any other successes they had.

[Reily]

At best its an “art” not a science!

[plain talk]

“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.”

This is all about Iran’s terrorist operation and their desire to develop nukes.

It is fair game to argue about tactics but I don’t she is serious enough to understand what’s going on. Lightweight.

[Alberta's Child]

See Post #24. Unless you were in that room, you’re just a jabbering propagandist who has no idea if she’s telling the truth or not.

[hopespringseternal]

Disagreeing with Trump, fine. But siding with congress against Trump is just a special kind of stupid.

The trustworthiness of congress rates below the inmates of white collar prisons.

[DiogenesLamp]

She has come out and told you that the Trump administration is flat-out lying to you — or to Congress. That seems to be noteworthy no matter where you stand politically.

Well he can tell *US* the truth. It's not like we would repeat it or anything so the Iranians could find out...

[Republican Wildcat]

I think they did a good job putting the Shah in power in the early 1950s,

Strange - history shows the Shah existed since the 8th century BC, and the Shah in power in the 1950s succeeded to the throne in 1941.

[RandFan]

But ultimately they - and only they - can stop a quagmire through pulling funding or voting it down and the House has that role specifically, right?

[escapefromboston]

Seems rather unprofessional

[DiogenesLamp]

I notice you mention the word "Israel" and "Taxpayers" a lot in your messages.

I think in your previous message you used "taxpayers" or "taxpaid" in like every sentence.

I take it you don't think Israel gives us a good return for our investment?

What is it worth to you to save a billion people from a nuclear exchange?

[Liz]

Other than billions of US tax treasure and billions in US materiel used
why did Netanyahu inveigle Trump into Israel’s Iran bomb-a-thon?

middleeasteye.com
By MEE staff
Published 23 March 2026

Israel’s “vaunted” Mossad promised Trump it could ignite regime change in Iran, says NYT report.

Mossad intel manipulated Trump into believing the Islamic Regime could be toppled (NYT)

pic—US President Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upon arrival
at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on 29 Dec 2025 (Jim Watson/AFP)

Israel’s intel agency, Mossad, had a plan to ignite public protests that would lead to the collapse of Iran’s government, the New York Times has reported.

David Barnea, Mossad’s chief, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu days before the US and Israel began their war on Iran and told him that the agency would be able to galvanise Iranian opposition in order to bring about regime change.

Barnea, according to the report, which cites interviews with US and Israeli officials, also presented this proposal to senior US officials during a visit to Washington in mid-January.

The plan was then taken up by Netanyahu and Trump, despite doubts among some senior American officials and Israeli military intelligence. Mossad’s promises were, according to US and Israeli officials, used by Netanyahu to convince the US president that collapsing the Iranian government was possible.

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In the plan’s conception, Israel emphasized the war would begin with the killing of Iranian leaders, followed by a “series of intelligence operations intended to encourage regime change”. This could, Mossad believed, lead to a mass uprising that would bring about victory for Israel and the US.

As the war began, Trump’s public messaging to Americans reflected this thinking.

In an eight-minute video statement Trump said: “Finally, to the great, proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand…when we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations.”

But talk of regime change quickly evaporated. Less than two weeks in, US senators came out of a briefing on the war to say that overthrowing the Islamic Republic was NOT one of its goals, and that in fact there was “no plan” at all for the military operation.

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[DiogenesLamp]

See Post #24. Unless you were in that room, you’re just a jabbering propagandist who has no idea if she’s telling the truth or not.

I don't need to be in that room to understand the Iranian Mullahs represented the greatest threat to mankind since the Soviet Union.

They were insane religious fanatics who would absolutely use nukes to pursue their insane religious beliefs.

From my perspective, everything else is stupid sh*t.

We take them out, regardless of the cost.

This has been the correct answer since 1979.

[Republican Wildcat]

DRAMA: Rep. Nancy Mace "walks out" of Congressional briefing on war with Iran

Well if she "walked out" then there is really no reason to listen to anything she has to say - she isn't informed - she wasn't there to listen to the information. Unless the title of the thread is hyperbole and she says she "walked out" as in she was leaving the room after the hearing was over.

But regardless she is not a person to be taken seriously. This is the same person who went to a prayer breakfast and spoke about waking up next to a man she was not married to and was on time for the prayer breakfast because she declined to have sex with him that morning.

[Liz]

Ultra Sonic 007 posted for our edification: “Netanyahu’s time is long past.......insofar as Netanyahu’s take on American foreign policy, we should have ignored him after this bit in 2002 aged rather poorly:”

2002 Netanyahu to the US “If you take out Saddam, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region...The first victory in Afghanistan makes the second victory in Iraq that much easier. The second victory in Iraq will make the third victory that much easier too but it may change the nature of achieving that victory...”

[DiogenesLamp]

Pedant.

Keeping Mosaddegh out of power and keeping the Shah in power.

[moviefan8]

Congress can also introduce articles of impeachment against Trump.

[RandFan]

That is far more graver than just cutting funding or voting down a war powers resolution

[Alberta's Child]

That’s great. Now go enlist and do something about.

It’s been decades since I believed anything the U.S. government has told me.