It can always be worse.
Posted on 06/07/2026 9:46:02 AM PDT by thegagline
President Trump denied Friday that he campaigned on avoiding “endless” wars, as he seeks to reach a deal to end hostilities with Iran.
“I didn’t promise anything. I don’t like these endless wars. This is not an endless war,” he told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” in an interview that aired Sunday.
“We’ve been doing this for three months,” Trump added, referring to the Iran conflict that began on Feb. 28. “Much of it has been under… a pretty good form of ceasefire.”
The president later said that he would “not have built the strongest military in the world” if he was entirely against war. ***
Since he launched his first bid for the presidency in 2015, though, the president has criticized lengthy U.S. wars in the Middle East. During a February 2016 debate with his Republican opponents on CBS, Trump blasted former President George W. Bush for the war in Iraq.
“We spent $2 trillion, thousands of lives, we don’t even have it,” he said. “Iran is taking over Iraq, with the second-largest oil reserves in the world. Obviously, it was a mistake.”
Trump added, “We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East.”
More than eight years later, Trump pledged that if elected again, the “years of war, weakness and chaos” would end.
“I could stop wars with a telephone call,” he said at the 2024 Republican National Convention.
Trump’s biography on the White House’s website also lists “putting a stop to endless wars” as one of his top priorities.
But before, during and between his two terms in office, the president has also said that Tehran cannot have a nuclear weapon — the justification he used to launch the war in Iran.***
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“The current strategy of toppling regimes with no plan for what to do in the day after only produces power vacuums that are filled simply by terrorists.” (Trump, September 2016)
“Hillary Clinton is trigger-happy. She’s raced to invade, intervene and topple regimes. She believes in globalism, not Americanism.” (September 8, 2016)
We will stop racing to topple … foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with.” (Trump, December 2016)
“I’m not going to start wars, I’m going to stop wars,” declared Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump in his victory speech (November 5, 2024).
“We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we never get into. My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and a unifier.” —Trump, January 20, 2025
It depends on what the meaning of, "stop wars" is.
We’re not fighting a war at the moment. Haven’t been for weeks. We’re keeping the peace in the time being. The only thing we fired at was a ship that refused to stop and a missile silo on the island.
Is the Iran conflict really a “war”?
There was hard fighting for a few weeks, then mostly quiet
It’s not like the US has been bogged-down in hard slogging for 4 1/2 years, like Russia in Ukraine ... THAT’s a war!
(even if Pootin doesn’t have the balls to call it one)
It can always be worse.
The reason I supported Trump was his pledge to end the foreign wars. Turns out he started another one.
What a Clintonesque lie
“The reason I supported Trump was his pledge to end the foreign wars.”
Well, it looks like you will have to punish us by voting for a democrat; democrats are guaranteed to get involved in foreign wars.
All of Trump’s spoken words indicate HE did NOT want war with Iran.
BUT Netanyahu did.
Enter the “all-seeing, all knowing” Mossad which duped Trump
into bombing Iran by glibly assuring Don The Mideast Believer:
<><>Iran’s ballistic missile program would be “destroyed” in weeks.
<><>The Iran regime would be “too weak” to close the Strait of Hormuz.
<><>Street protests — with Mossad help — would “trigger a western-leaning uprising.”
<><>Kurdish fighters from Iraq could “open a ground front” in the northwest.
(None of which happened.)
The 13,000 strikes US carried out on Iran leads me to conclude that this a war and not peace.
Recall the beginning:
We weren’t going to attack Iran. The Iranian people led a failed revolution where between 30 and 40 THOUSAND protesters were killed by the religious regime.
We supported their revolution. They either chickened out (which I wouldn’t say) or the regime scared them so much that they couldn’t do it.
Then comes the REAL issue that everyone forgets. Iran lashed at EVERYONE in the region. We have defense agreements with these countries.
This is all, 100%, Iran. They are the aggressors. Even their once-allied neighbors are with us here.
They aren’t handling their own war because decades ago a US president told them they didn’t have to, and that we would in exchange for oil access.
Finally, we’re negotiating! We only fought for 2 whole weeks since this while things began. For months now we have been at the negotiating table.
The negotiating table with a complete psychopath. They will not release two things that they have proven they have no good intention with: nukes (that they will use.. even their allies say this) and control over the strait where they will use force to collect a toll (terrorism... They didn’t have this before and they don’t deserve it now)
We are fully in the right here.
They need to get this revolution. Without it we’re looking at another 100 years of insane terrorism.
Remember this is the county that made citizens line up around buildings and on bridges to act as human shields.. a war crime!
If you can't see that Trump's actions in Iran are meant to end an already existing war, then I don't know what to tell you.
If the Mullahs in Tehranha have or get nuclear weapons the wars they will continue to wage via their proxies will be endless and unstoppable at a later date except by the U.S. doing then what it is doing now at much greater cost in lives and destruction.
Trump is trying to prevent a much greater future wwar. He could be sacrificing his presidency while preventing a larger war a successor would have to face.
Compare to 4,492 dead in the Bush/Obama Iraq war, and 2,459 in Afghanistan.
The media did not say a DAMN thing to Obama about his endless war and thousands of drone kills.
Or media and/or Israel tricked Trump and other Boomer Conservatives into believing the opposition to this regime is way bigger than it is.
B.S. The present state of affairs with regard to Tehran originates in Tehran, not Telaviv. Blaming Israel’s reactions to Iran and her proxies is blaming the victim instead of the perp.
This war actually began on October 7th 2023. The Mullahs thought they could keep Israel tied up with attacks by their proxies - Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthi - until their nuclear plans were completed.
It was in no one’s interest that they succeed.
Islam has been jihading to conquer the entire world since the 7th Century of our Lord.
Iran is a rook of Islam, and even though the Shiites are a hated PIA, the rest of Islam can't bear to see their rook to be taken by infidels like us.
♜
Trump should remember that this is the information age. He would be better off admitting he was unable to keep his promise and the reasons why. But to outright deny what he plainly said, especially when it was the reason so many voted for him, is the wrong path to take.
And for those here who defend this or claim it is part of 7D chess, I hope you enjoy the next 4-8 years of Democrat control in D.C.
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