Posted on 05/19/2019 8:25:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — Only one person can save us from the dangerous belligerent in the White House.
And that person is Donald Trump.
How screwed up is that?
Will the president let himself be pushed into a parlous war by John Bolton, who once buoyed the phony case on W.M.D.s in Iraq? Or will Trump drag back his national security adviser and the other uber hawks from the precipice of their fondest, bloodiest desire — to attack Iran?
Can Cadet Bone Spurs, as Illinois senator and Iraq war vet Tammy Duckworth called Trump, set Tom Cotton straight that winning a war with Iran would not merely entail “two strikes, the first strike and the last strike”? Holy cakewalk.
Once, we counted on Trump’s advisers to pump the brakes on an out-of-control president. Now, we count on the president to pump the brakes on out-of-control advisers.
“On one side, you have a president who doesn’t want war, who simply wants to do with Iran what he has done with North Korea, to twist the arm of the Iranians to bring them to a negotiation on his terms,” said Gérard Araud, the recently departed French ambassador. “He thinks they will suffer and at the end, they will grovel in front of his power.”
But in a way, Araud said, the face-off with the Iranians is more “primitive and dangerous” because, besides Bolton, other factions in the Middle East are also “dreaming of going to war.”
“Even if Trump doesn’t personally want war, we are now at the mercy of any incident, because we are at maximum tension on both sides,” said Araud, recalling Candidate Trump’s bellicose Twitter ultimatums in 2016 when Iran’s Revolutionary Guards held American sailors blindfolded at gunpoint for 15 hours.
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It took me a second to remember. :)
Where has she been? I missed the CZJ pics!
“...phony case on W.M.D.s in Iraq?...”
He had WMDs; he used them on his own people. Plus, they were precursors to other, more potent WMDs.
Dumb b*tch.
Bill Clinton and the Democrats were right!
https://strongasanoxandnearlyassmart.blogspot.com/2006/06/bill-clinton-and-democrats-were-right.html
Bill Clinton and the Democrats were right after all. Let’s take a trip in the Way Back Machine to 1998, when Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and a hoard, big bunch — of Democrats found that Saddam had all sorts of Weapons of Mass Destruction and was, in fact, a menace to the United States and the rest of the Free World.
I recently came across an old British TV program called THE DARLING BUDS OF MY which had Catherine Zeta Jones at around 18 years old. She was (is) a very beautiful woman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darling_Buds_of_May_(TV_series)
Good research.
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