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Seven Days in January: How Trump Pushed U.S. and Iran to the Brink of War
The New York Times ^ | January 11, 2020 | Peter Baker

Posted on 01/12/2020 2:54:32 AM PST by keat

The story of that week, and the secret planning in the months preceding it, ranks as the most perilous chapter so far in President Trump’s three years in office.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020election; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; iran; iraq; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashills; peterbaker; presstitutes; qasemsoleimani; qudsforce; smearmachine
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To: keat
If "Seven Days in January: How Trump Pushed U.S. and Iran to the Brink of War" were true

Then the Iranians backed down

which is a good thing.

Trump WINS again.

21 posted on 01/12/2020 3:50:55 AM PST by spokeshave (If anything, Trump is guilty of attempting to obstruct injustice.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

No they can’t, nor can’t any other country, including Russia and China....however, as we’ve seen before, it’s all about the narrative and shaping public opinion here and abroad.


22 posted on 01/12/2020 3:53:11 AM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: keat
Seven Days in January: How Trump Pushed U.S. and Iran to the Brink of War

Seven Days in January: How Trump Pushed NYT to the brink of madness.

23 posted on 01/12/2020 3:53:53 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (NuRulz)
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To: keat

“How Trump Pushed U.S. and Iran to the Brink of War”

Yea, the Mullahs did no pushing at all, at any time or any place in the past or recently; they’ve always been the nicest folks ever. /sarc


24 posted on 01/12/2020 4:14:55 AM PST by Wuli
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Need one of those old style Twilight Zone episodes, where these Neo-Commies wake up in a Soviet gulag (that leftist institution in the old commie USSR) and find that every stupid thing they previously mouthed is blared at them in the 24/7 ‘Corrections’ to the inmates - With a scene where the first one who opens his mouth to DEMAND ‘proper respect’ has his head kicked/crushed by a gulag guard - as an example of “what foolishness earns the Criminal Inmates” ...

The dream being ended, the same Neo-Commies now see the same thing being instituted in their own jobs by other leftists and *FADE TO BLACK* as they still delusionally assume ‘It will be done right this time’ ... (The usual defense of all American communists who are confronted by the real history of their political agenda).

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Reality will be : These leftist fools/betrayers ‘Reaping the Whirlwind’ when other Americans turn their backs on them and lock them out when the vermin the leftists have bred come to eat them.

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25 posted on 01/12/2020 4:22:19 AM PST by elbook
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To: 48th SPS Crusader
Guess all that Trump hate they carry gets in the way of intelligent thought!

They have to have the capacity to engage in intelligent thought before anything can get in its way.

26 posted on 01/12/2020 4:26:48 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: keat
Those morons who work for the Propaganda Machine are clueless.

They lack the wit to understand that theirs is a mediocre intelligence, at best, despite all the credentials they have struggled to acquire in order to make it otherwise--and that President Donald Trump towers over them intellectually and morally.

27 posted on 01/12/2020 4:29:37 AM PST by Savage Beast (The curse of intelligence is having to watch the morons try everything you know won't work.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I’ve said for a long time that while we had all the assets in Iraq, we should have next turned the guns on Iran.


28 posted on 01/12/2020 4:32:50 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the video")
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“Does Iran think they can challenge us?”

Up to this point in time, “yes”. Look at how all our Presidents til Mr Trump have followed basically the “Carter Doctrine” with regards to Iran. We may have the military power to destroy them. But under the Carter Doctrine, we have not had the will to show them otherwise - they mess with us, no matter how small, it will cost them more.

The NYT might be premature - it is too close in time to the event to know whether there was a “brink of war” scenario. It makes for good headlines. I am sure they wrote something similar when Reagan walked away from Gorbachev’s fake “peace offering” in Iceland. Taking out Mr “Salami” might actually cause internal changes in Iran that ends the nightmare the people there, and the rest of the region, have lived through over the past 40 years.


29 posted on 01/12/2020 4:38:39 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: Amberdawn

Prettiest boxed X on Free Republic!


30 posted on 01/12/2020 4:45:06 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: keat

blah, blah, blah fake news.


31 posted on 01/12/2020 4:55:25 AM PST by stockpirate (Anyone who believes Epstein killed himself is a fool)
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To: fluorescence

The planning was so secret they let a mob of Iranian trained militia attempt to storm the US embassy on New Years eve .....Trump’s “Benghazi”


32 posted on 01/12/2020 5:27:32 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: keat

More NYT crap!


33 posted on 01/12/2020 5:35:01 AM PST by Agatsu77
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To: keat

Pushing implies the President moved something to the brink of war. This is classic liberal projection. In this case taking out a terrorist pig means that it was the President who therefore brought the US to the brink of war. It matters not that Iran’s mullahs had this animal doing his blood letting for years. Everytime he helped plan the killing of American soldiers it didn’t bring the mullah regime to the brink of war by their own acts?

Whether or not the story actually supports the assertion is irrelevant at this point. As a source of information the Slimes is irrelevant.


34 posted on 01/12/2020 5:49:41 AM PST by Lent
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To: Sacajaweau

That’s true, I blee someone’s argument away the other day by mentioning our Baghdad embassy was attacked first and the other guy was dumbfounded that the embassy was in Baghdad and was attacked first. He’d been reading leftwing news and thought the embassy was in Iran and it was just a protest.


35 posted on 01/12/2020 5:52:51 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: keat

later


36 posted on 01/12/2020 6:14:14 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: nathanbedford

Good advice. In the article one learns who are one’s “friends” ... some of our “friends” in the EU really aren’t our friends. Of course EU likes the protection the US gives them to keep M.E. oil flowing into the EU without having any significant EU skin in the game. EU, like obozo, appear afraid to confront Iran on anything, including demanding with words that the terrorism stops ... or else. Like typical EU intelligentsia, they appear more upset that Trump didn’t consult them or let them in on it than they are about Iranian regional terrorism.


37 posted on 01/12/2020 6:17:29 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: keat

If bold Iranian people rise up and dump the gang of perverts that run the place the Dems (and frankly every preceding President) are going to look rather stupid. #winning


38 posted on 01/12/2020 6:19:26 AM PST by databoss
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To: piasa

“That’s true, I blee someone’s argument away the other day by mentioning our Baghdad embassy was attacked first and the other guy was dumbfounded that the embassy was in Baghdad and was attacked first. He’d been reading leftwing news and thought the embassy was in Iran and it was just a protest.”

There has been a lot of back and forth between the US and Iran in recent months. They attacked oil tankers and the Saudi oil fields. Then they killed an American in a missile attack. We then launched a counterattack that killed a bunch of ragheads. Then “mourners” then attacked our embassy. Then we blew up terror boy. Its been tit for tat for a long time.


39 posted on 01/12/2020 6:20:11 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (It's not a coincidence that the Democrat/media complex always sides with America's enemies.)
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To: keat
Since there was no war, there was no brink of war. Elementary logic. To say it correctly: The left claimed that Trump was starting a war.
40 posted on 01/12/2020 6:22:36 AM PST by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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