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To: cuban leaf

RE: I think tucker is saying there is a glitch in the matrix.

There were glitches in the past.

Remember the CIA’s “Slam Dunk” intelligence telling us that Saddam Hussein had WMD’s?

The challenge is which intelligence to believe.

In this particular case the intelligence data that pinpoints where Soleimani AND Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi of ISIS fame were, were ACCURATE.

Why then should we disbelieve military intelligence when they tell us that Soleimani was plotting MORE attacks on our embassy?

Tucker seems to confuse ALL and SOME.

His reasoning is -— SOME intelligence were FUBAR in the past, therefore, ALL intelligence is useless.

With this type of reasoning, we might as well dismantle all intelligence. But even he does not advocate this.


15 posted on 01/07/2020 8:53:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yep. You get down to the issue at the end of your post. It’s as if Tucker is just trying really hard to be “in the middle” on this.


24 posted on 01/07/2020 8:58:18 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: SeekAndFind
A lot of people here apparently believe -- mistakenly -- that information from "U.S. intelligence" is intended to guide decisions by U.S. presidents. It's not. It's aimed at driving propaganda efforts to dupe low-information voters into supporting foreign/military policy decisions that may not be in America's best interest.

As such, I'd say the whole purpose of citing "U.S. intelligence information about an imminent attack on U.S. interests by Iran" is to provide public justification for something that President Trump wanted to do anyway. Maybe it was a good idea, and maybe it wasn't ... but it sure as hell wasn't done because of any "imminent attack" on anything.

Never trust your government.


30 posted on 01/07/2020 9:02:09 AM PST by Alberta's Child (In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.)
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