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Trump doubles down on striking cultural sites in Iran
AP via Yahoo News ^ | 01/06/2020

Posted on 01/06/2020 9:07:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: C19fan; dsrtsage; SeekAndFind
I'm with you guys.

Blow the military assets to hell and stomp the cinders till they're dead--- please and thank you--- because that is directly relevant to eliminating the bad guys.

But targeting civilian lives and cultural assets would be a disaster of world-historic magnitude. The most valuable asset we could ever have in Iran is a wide spectrum of Iranians who realize that we are not their enemy and they are not our enemy.

We (USA) are not aggressive cultural vandals like the morons who are their current Islamofascist warlords.

You don't have to *become* an imbecile to fight the imbeciles.

61 posted on 01/06/2020 10:04:23 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes down to the bone.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Here’s one candidate: Khomeini’s tomb:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_Ruhollah_Khomeini


62 posted on 01/06/2020 10:09:27 AM PST by tsomer (Trump: the meanest SOB that ever loved our country!)
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To: dsrtsage

Think for a minute. He is not going to target cultural sites unless the Mullahs try to use them as a sanctuary or hide their missle program in them. He is just letting them know they shouldn’t feel safe if they do that.


63 posted on 01/06/2020 10:09:30 AM PST by McGavin999 (“Look into it” does not mean dig up dirt, it means find the truth)
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To: C19fan
First rule of war. Don't get involved in one if you can't afford the cost. Japan learned that the hard way.

That said. I am not in favor of going after cultural sites. I also don't think that they should be off the table. Let Trump's unpredictability be his strength. They don't seem to care about the lives of women and small children, maybe this gets their attention.

64 posted on 01/06/2020 10:10:36 AM PST by fhayek
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To: C19fan

Clutch those pearls


65 posted on 01/06/2020 10:10:41 AM PST by Dartoid
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To: SeekAndFind

Well I hadn’t considered that and I thank you for the corrected information - but my riled sentiments remain the same. Cultural sites have already been destroyed all over the ME by lunatic adherents of the pedophile madman.


66 posted on 01/06/2020 10:11:47 AM PST by CaptainPhilFan
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, the good news is nothing will happen if they don’t attack first so everything is ok.


67 posted on 01/06/2020 10:21:09 AM PST by wiseprince
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To: Fightin Whitey
I don't think FReepers who want to protect Iranian cultural sites, are "marching lockstep with the media." Even saying that, show a gross misunderstanding of the issues.

Don't use smart bombs to do dumb things.

And show an appreciation for ordinary sane Iranian people, which the Islamic warlords NEVER do.

Check out the six Iranian revelers in the video. I love these Iranian kids. They were shortly thereafter arrested and --- as I understand it --- imprisoned. For dancing.

Happy Tehran (YouTube)

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68 posted on 01/06/2020 10:21:58 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Facts R us.)
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To: C19fan; dsrtsage

He won’t.


69 posted on 01/06/2020 10:24:50 AM PST by ScottinVA (Out of Virginia in 2021.)
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To: yldstrk

Geneva and Hague mean absolutely nothing to the moslem world, so we should ignore them too when dealing with them. Bombs away Mr. President.


70 posted on 01/06/2020 10:25:56 AM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: SeekAndFind

‘Number 1 with a bullet!’ (or at least a BIG missile), as far as being one of PDJT’s 52 targets should be: the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini in Teheran!


71 posted on 01/06/2020 10:34:58 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: SeekAndFind

“important to Iran & the Iranian culture”

I’m a little curious what that means specifically. Although, admittedly i wouldn’t lose sleep if the whole messed up religo-fascist order was smashed like a bug.


72 posted on 01/06/2020 10:36:56 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: Mr. K
what would be a ‘cultural site’?

Any kind of site in the United States their rank-and-file psychopaths wouldn't hesitate to destroy.

I'm past caring about cultural sensibilities of psychotic Middle Easterners. I love how many Americans--and FReepers, too, apparently--are just so torn up over something like this even potentially happening. They should grow up.

73 posted on 01/06/2020 10:39:38 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
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To: Highest Authority

We are a nation of laws, not men. We follow Geneva and Hague whether or not our enemy does.


74 posted on 01/06/2020 10:42:49 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: C19fan
We are not at war with the Iranian people but their rotten theocratic government. No reason to have cultural sites involved.

We are at war with Izlam, period...I say any muzlim cultural sites are fair game...

75 posted on 01/06/2020 10:46:52 AM PST by Iscool
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To: SeekAndFind

You are right. No where does he say cultural sites. He is communicating the art of war.

I love President Trump and think he is the most transparent, common-sense president of all time. His military leaders propose all the targets and Trump isn’t pulling out the World Book Encyclopedia to find Iranian “cultural sites”.

Trump wants Iran at the negotiating table and I’ll bet they come in short order. As Trump says frequently, let see what happens.


76 posted on 01/06/2020 10:47:23 AM PST by Gahanna Bob
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To: SeekAndFind

Bomb that cave the 12th Imam is supposed to be sleeping in and see if we can wake him up.


77 posted on 01/06/2020 10:51:18 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Good point.


78 posted on 01/06/2020 10:53:32 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Good point.


79 posted on 01/06/2020 10:53:33 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Rule of War #1.

The only objective of war is to win.

Rule of War #2.

There are no other rules of war.

80 posted on 01/06/2020 10:55:09 AM PST by KC_Lion
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