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Who Wants This War With Iran?
Townhall.com ^ | May 17, 2019 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 05/17/2019 3:29:46 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

iran should have been rubblized in January 1980. send them back to the 7th century where they belong.


41 posted on 05/17/2019 5:55:34 AM PDT by utax
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To: Alberta's Child
The idiots clamoring for war with Iran don't realize that Iranians are not Arabs. They are way smarter and not near so stupid and cowardly as Arabs. Iranians are smart people and would be one of the toughest adversaries we have faced in recent times. It's not worth it. Not worth one drop of American blood.
 
42 posted on 05/17/2019 5:56:51 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: LeoWindhorse

Grab your gun and go. Nobody stopping you.


43 posted on 05/17/2019 5:58:20 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: hardspunned

Plus the strategic oil situation has changed dramatically, with the US now the world’s #1 producer and a net exporter.


44 posted on 05/17/2019 6:02:24 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: Kaslin

What total nonsense, thank God, President Trump has ended this foolishness and dressed down those idiot war mongers Bolton and Pompeo...

Read My Lips—

NO WAR WITH IRAN.

Mr Trump, when we voted for you it was a vote against the GOP establishment and their never-ending wars.
Do not betray your voters and your country.


45 posted on 05/17/2019 6:05:30 AM PDT by CharleysPride (Peace, Freedom and Prosperity. Thank you, President Trump.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Bears repeating.. allows tens of th thousands Per Month cross our border. The kabuki shitdown did nothing becausexhe flinched and the left got their way again.


46 posted on 05/17/2019 6:11:14 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Do you know anyone who isnÂ’t a socialist after 65? Freedom exchanged for cash and control.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The Iranian people, that’s who.


Let them do it.


47 posted on 05/17/2019 6:17:05 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Manly Warrior
"If anyone thinks there can be an end to these Moslem wars, they are sadly mistaken."

Bears repeating... Who knows, if we got out of the way maybe someone else could get a chance to stomp on them for a while...

48 posted on 05/17/2019 6:17:22 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: DoodleDawg

Saudi Arabia can’t even beat Yemen. And why on Earth would India want in?

Exactly. And Saudi Arabia won’t even pay their share if we did go to war in their behalf.


49 posted on 05/17/2019 6:18:56 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Alberta's Child

We’re already at war with Iran. Ever heard of Hamas or Hezbollah?

Hamas, otherwise known as Harakat al-Muqawana al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement); Al-Tiar Al-Islami (The Islamic Stream); or Harakat al-Muqawana al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement); an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, is responsible for the deaths of over a thousand people to include Americans.

Hezbollah killed, among others, 241 Americans in a truck bomb attack in Beirut as early as the 1980’s, and have worked together with Al-Qaeda. As early as 2002, A report from the council on foreign relations stated that fifty to one hundred Hamas and Hezbollah agents had infiltrated the United States and were involved in fund-raising and low-level intelligence gathering. Hezbollah supports al Quaeda with explosives and supplies. European intelligence reports that the two groups were collaborating in such activities as money laundering, gun running, and training.

So we are already at war with them. This is how islamic terrorist groups work.

rwood


50 posted on 05/17/2019 6:24:45 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: Kaslin

“The people who have a problem with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon are the Israelis whose occupations spawned those movements.“

The antisemitism of Buchanan never gets old.


51 posted on 05/17/2019 6:26:25 AM PDT by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: Redwood71
Those terrorist groups would have no impact on the U.S. if just minded our own business and stayed the hell out of those Islamic sh!t-holes over there.

A report from the council on foreign relations ...

LOL. Is this like a report from John Brennan and James Clapper?

European intelligence reports that the two groups were collaborating in such activities as money laundering, gun running, and training.

Oh, boy -- they sound awful ... like an organized crime family here in the U.S. Maybe this is why Europe doesn't even consider Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization -- and even recognizes Hezbollah's leadership to be a legitimate political organization.

52 posted on 05/17/2019 6:30:36 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: Kaslin

no big mystery at all.. the world’s bankers as always do...when the world economy is in the crapper...its time to launder all the debt through war...when its soaring they launder all the profits through the markets..all to keep the sheep sedated and unawares of their seasonal fleecing


53 posted on 05/17/2019 6:32:37 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible")
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To: LeoWindhorse

I see it like this:

Learn the lesson: There is nothing in the middle east that we need. Nothing whatever.

“It’s time to rid the world of this simmering cancer” = “Make the world safe for democracy”

100% stupid


54 posted on 05/17/2019 6:51:40 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: mewzilla

“When do we invade the EU?”

As soon as the Muslims are finished trashing it.


55 posted on 05/17/2019 7:16:53 AM PDT by Amish with an attitude
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To: Kaslin

“If we wish to impose a regime more to our liking in Tehran, we will have to do it the way we did it with Germany and Japan after 1945...”

Nope. We just need to support the Iranian people who want to overthrow the Mullahs.

Not that the next guy in charge will be any good. Frankly, the model that worked best for everyone, including Iran, was when we installed a puppet strongman like the Shah. He was horrible, yes....but MUCH less so than the Mullahs.


56 posted on 05/17/2019 7:23:26 AM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: Kaslin

War is a failure...

of diplomacy, or of politics, or of trade, or of imagination. It has been said.

There are certainly better and cheaper ways to get under their skin than war.

And the earliest unfortunate consequences of such a war would be that, among those people who are most promptly affected on either side:

a. in America, popular opinion would recoil from the current administration and its policies;

b. in Iran, popular opinion would coalesce in favor of the existing government. (See any history of Stalinist Russia in WW2.)

Just what we don’t want. A flash-bang war, about as controllable as a deliberate biological plague.


57 posted on 05/17/2019 7:25:40 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: Alas Babylon!

(Reads the article...

Feels dirty afterward.

Yes, yes, of course. Once again, it’s all about t3h j0000z.

Oh, FFS.


58 posted on 05/17/2019 7:34:23 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
The idiots clamoring for war with Iran don't realize that Iranians are not Arabs.

Every time I hear a story of some nitwit who responds to a terrorist attack in the U.S. by assaulting a Sikh at a gas station in Illinois or Nevada, I cringe because I half-expect to learn that the attacker was a regular poster on FR.

59 posted on 05/17/2019 7:43:06 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: jdsteel
We just need to support the Iranian people who want to overthrow the Mullahs.

I have never met an Iranian who wanted to overthrown the Mullahs. Maybe it's because I've never been to Iran, and the Iranian-born Americans I know here in the U.S. simply don't give a sh!t about Iran anymore.

Maybe those people exist, but I am long past the point where I believe any of the bullsh!t that is peddled by our government anyway.

60 posted on 05/17/2019 7:46:46 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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