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New York Times: The Nightmare Stage of Trump’s Rule Is Here
New York Times ^ | 01/07/2020 | Michelle Goldberg

Posted on 01/07/2020 5:57:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind

There are no more adults in the room.

After three harrowing years, we’ve reached the point many of us feared from the moment Donald Trump was elected. His decision to kill Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s second most important official, made at Mar-a-Lago with little discernible deliberation, has brought the United States to the brink of a devastating new conflict in the Middle East.

We don’t yet know how Iran will retaliate, or whether all-out war will be averted. But already, NATO has suspended its mission training Iraqi forces to fight ISIS. Iraq’s Parliament has voted to expel American troops — a longtime Iranian objective. (On Monday, U.S. forces sent a letter saying they were withdrawing from Iraq in response, only to then claim that it was a draft released in error.)

On Sunday, Iran said it will no longer be bound by the remaining restrictions on its nuclear program in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the deal that Trump abandoned in 2018. Trump has been threatening to commit war crimes by destroying Iran’s cultural sites and tried to use Twitter to notify Congress of his intention to respond to any Iranian reprisals with military escalation.

The administration has said that the killing of Suleimani was justified by an imminent threat to American lives, but there is no reason to believe this. One skeptical American official told The New York Times that the new intelligence indicated nothing but “a normal Monday in the Middle East,” and Democrats briefed on it were unconvinced by the administration’s case. The Washington Post reported that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — who last year agreed with a Christian Broadcasting Network interviewer that God might have sent Trump to save Israel from the “Iranian menace” — has been pushing for a hit on Suleimani

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
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To: NativeSon
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81 posted on 01/07/2020 7:47:54 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: hal ogen

3-seater on Continental...


82 posted on 01/07/2020 7:48:25 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: SeekAndFind

The mullah’s mouthpiece strikes again.


83 posted on 01/07/2020 8:15:02 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: SeekAndFind

THE GREY ZONE
Just watched the riveting film “THE GREY ZONE” on ROKU (it’s probably on other services as well) based on the Jewish experience in 1944 Europe.
If you’re a conservative and know that history, you know that the Nazis were dedicated to their warped, antisemitic ideology and were “just following orders”.
If you ARE a conservative and/or lover of the Constitutional system WE inherited, the film contains a message for you. If you DO watch the film, imagine ANOTHER large group of human beings in the place of the Jews. If you’d like to see the face of a representative of that OTHER group, go look in a mirror.
If you don’t believe me, you apparently have not been listening to the words issuing from the mouths of the ideologically twisted radical leftist Democrats vying to rule over you from the White House and the Congress.
If what happened in Germany - the land that produced Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Schiller, etc - to the Jews and OTHERS who were “different” or failed to toe the Nazi Party line, don’t think for a moment that it CAN’T HAPPEN HERE!
The most dangerous words in ANY language are “Why THAT could NEVER happen here!”
Remember until November!


84 posted on 01/07/2020 8:16:26 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES YOU!)
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To: SeekAndFind

So say the liars who covered up the Holocaust and Ukrainian starvation.


85 posted on 01/07/2020 8:22:40 PM PST by Fledermaus (Horowitz was a waste of time and money, Barr and Durham better not be.)
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To: Lurker
Dear Michelle,

Suck this.

Regards,"

I hope that was a Desert Eagle in your hand when you wrote that... {:-)

86 posted on 01/07/2020 8:51:41 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: SeekAndFind

Strange it is none of the so called media outlets is much interested in explaining to us just exactly what Soleimani was doing in Iraq.


87 posted on 01/07/2020 8:55:23 PM PST by heshtesh
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To: SeekAndFind

the times is in the middle of an 8-year nightmare, for them


88 posted on 01/07/2020 8:57:56 PM PST by olesigh
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shills update.


89 posted on 01/07/2020 9:46:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv ( Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MGunny
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90 posted on 01/07/2020 10:06:01 PM PST by timestax
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To: timestax
new-york-times3
91 posted on 01/07/2020 10:07:47 PM PST by timestax
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To: SunkenCiv; SeekAndFind

If the Times thinks they are in a nightmare now, wait until Trump starts arresting members of the “Deep State.” I believe some folks from the mainstream media belong on that list.


92 posted on 01/08/2020 6:25:14 AM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The sky is falling, the sky is falling cried Chicken Little.


93 posted on 01/08/2020 8:40:29 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: DoughtyOne

Nice


94 posted on 01/08/2020 12:49:48 PM PST by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: Titus-Maximus
d":^)
95 posted on 01/08/2020 1:48:40 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Leftistist media and particularly CNN NEWS should come with a ten day supply of Cipro.)
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